A Day That Will Live in Infamy
First Anniversary of a Day That Will Live in Infamy
21 February 2021
by Will Jones
Today on?Lockdown?Sceptics?we mark a year to the?day?since the world changed?forever.?
On February 21st, 2020 the Government of Italy did something no Western Government had ever done before. Something that the World Health Organisation had expressly only four months earlier.
It decided to set aside all established pandemic protocol, as well as all considerations of basic freedoms and human rights, and imitate Communist China (which had already been for its “extraordinary” response) and a whole local population in an effort to control a coronavirus outbreak.
What started with 10 towns and 50,000 people in Lombardy quickly established itself as the go-to and unassailable response to the coronavirus threat.?Seventeen?days?later the whole of Italy was locked down, 33?days?later most of the world. A year later, we still are.
From that moment on it became acceptable for Western governments to quarantine entire populations to try to control the spread of contagious disease,?even one scarcely more deadly than a bad flu. They haven’t looked back. No amount of data from the few Western countries or states which refused to impose such restrictions will convince them they were or are wrong to do so. Model after model appears from respectable scientific institutions to shore up the faith. The politicians seem interested only in listening to the?experts who reassure them they were right to take such extreme and costly action.
There will be many anniversaries to mark in the coming weeks, as we complete a full year since the nightmare began – the declaration of the pandemic on March?11th, the “three week” UK?lockdown?on March?23rd, and so on. But at?Lockdown?Sceptics?we felt that this was the one to flag, the pivot on which the world turned. We can no longer go back to the world as it was on February 20th 2020, because we cannot undo the fact that we were locked down by our politicians for an indefinite period of time to try to control disease, and it was accepted by the public and reinforced by the medics, the scientists and the courts.
In December, Professor Neil Ferguson ?the critical role of Italy in bringing?lockdowns?to the West:
[China] is a communist one party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with it in Europe, we thought… and then Italy did it. And we realised we could.
Our best hope is that in time the lesson will be learned that we must never do this again, and next time must be different?–?we must not panic but must stick to the .
But the tragedy is that even if we reach such a point, we can never change the fact that our Governments now know that “lockdown” is an option, that they can indeed “get away with it”. Western civilisation is undoubtedly diminished as a result.
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https://lockdownsceptics.org/2021/02/21/latest-news-292/#first-anniversary-of-a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy
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Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment - Glenn Greenwald
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Re: Vaccines in Argentina
That’s interesting, since the USA is having similar problems on some areas.? Our county in California changed its age limits four times in one week, and people over 65 had been logging on, trying to get appointments only to find that they were no longer eligible.? In Pittsburgh, they offered 750 vaccines by phone for over 65s who didn’t have computers and they got 15,000 calls per second for two hours before the system got hacked by crooks who offered fake appointments in exchange for credit card numbers or gift cards.
Yesterday, parts of California ran out of Moderna vaccine and switched to Pfizer, so my wife has Pfizer, and I got Moderna at the same place a day earlier.? The trouble is either a production problem or a delivery problem.? Nevada had to cut off all vaccines scheduled later last week because the Moderna shipment didn’t arrive.
It’s all but impossible to schedule an appointment online, and we were extremely fortunate to get them this week, but by the time I got my appointment and when I tried to schedule my wife’s after filling out the mandatory 10 page questionnaire during the scheduling process, all of that day’s appointments were gone, and I had to schedule her the following day.? This was at 8 pm on a Friday night, and the availability was posted without announcement.? I had been monitoring seven different appointment sites and just lucked out.? Our friend searched sites for two months before she got an appointment two weeks ago.? The questionnaire must be filled out online in its entirety after requesting the available time, and my neighbor filled out forms four times one website visit, only to find that his chosen time was taken while he was filling out the forms so he had to start all over again.? That happened three times to me in one website visit two weeks ago before all appointments for the day were filled at six different locations.
Scheduling is an awful mess, but once we got an appointment the process was fast, simple, and efficient because the centers don’t have very many vaccines, so they aren’t busy. Ed
On Saturday, February 20, 2021, Anabel Perez via <perezbem= [email protected]> wrote: Yesterday vaccination listing opened up for common citizens over 80y.o. (my parents, for instance). My brother finally got them suscribed at 2 am (the web was collapsed) and now we're waiting for more vaccines to arrive from Russia (so far, it's the only one available).
In the mean time, the ministry of health was asked to resign because he allowed some polititians to get vaccinated out of order. It's unfair... he isn't the only one using his position to give friendly priorities...
Slds
Anabel Pérez Bemporat
Despachante de Aduana Lic. Comercio Internacional?
Capacitadora en Aduanas y Comercio Exterior Argentinos
? Foros actualizados !??y? ?
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Yesterday vaccination listing opened up for common citizens over 80y.o. (my parents, for instance). My brother finally got them suscribed at 2 am (the web was collapsed) and now we're waiting for more vaccines to arrive from Russia (so far, it's the only one available).
In the mean time, the ministry of health was asked to resign because he allowed some polititians to get vaccinated out of order. It's unfair... he isn't the only one using his position to give friendly priorities...
Slds
Anabel Pérez Bemporat
Despachante de Aduana Lic. Comercio Internacional?
Capacitadora en Aduanas y Comercio Exterior Argentinos
? Foros actualizados !??y? ?
- Mirá las novedades: Especial: Controles para IMPO con Valor Criterio
Detalles de Impos para Proyecciones 2020 y para 7030!
?C.O.D.,?TAD,?DJCP,?D J O N P?!
Descarga de Insumos en PreDespachos, LNA, Facturación Electrónica, SETI Autoarchivo, i-Sap...???Qué necesitás?
#ReportSystem #CustomsaduanaS #ForoATAsARG #DJONP #DJCP #TAD
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Biden tells only four lies in his first away spech
CNN explains his 'misteaks' and what he really meant:
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virus - The Coddling of the Political Mind – Lockdown Sceptics
// ?Lockdown should end now. Its failure and cruelty as a policy is self-evident. The first lockdown was decreed amidst the panic and uncertainty of media hyperbole that drove the Government to ignore established guidance on pandemic management and to follow the instinctively totalitarian example of China. Continuing justifications have been found in the apocalyptic and opaque modelling of SAGE. Yet this name has proved to be as ironic as it is Orwellian. Almost a year on, SAGE has been shown to be wrong time and time again and strong empirical evidence now exists showing that lockdowns are not critical to combatting Covid. Cases were already falling before all three UK lockdowns were announced. Lockdown-averse Sweden has recorded excess deaths no greater than the EU average. The worst death rates in the USA are found in the states that have locked down the most rigorously, whilst those states that remained free have not fared dramatically worse than the average.
Perhaps more importantly, the costs of lockdown are unnervingly apparent. The UK is now more indebted than ever before in its history. Children’s mental health is precipitously deteriorating whilst their education continues to atrophy. Last year, a Bristol University study suggested that the medical and societal impact of lockdown will kill five times more people in the UK than Covid’s current butcher’s bill: an estimate that may prove conservative in the extreme in the years to come. Even if one were to accept that lockdowns have some effect on constraining the virus, a mere moment of reflection should surely lead to the conclusion that the costs outweigh the benefits. Yet the nation remains under house arrest, the economy stalled, and the lives and hopes of the next generation continue to be offered upon the sacrificial altar. All to save us from a disease with a survival rate in excess of 99%. Why, then, is the UK Government proving so reluctant to reconsider what is so clearly a failed and destructive policy? To start answering this question, one first has to realise that Covid is as much, if not more, a political problem than it is a medical crisis.??//
https://lockdownsceptics.org/the-coddling-of-the-political-mind/
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Re: CNN: Biden was wonderful..
CNN didn't sponsor the CNN Town Hall?!
On Wednesday, February 17, 2021, a1thighmaster < thighmaster@...> wrote:
The article was written by CNN, but the event itself was not
sponsored by CNN.
Aloha,
Celeste Rogers
Ed Lomas wrote:
...at CNN-sponsored event.? This is a puff-piece to the extreme: ?
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Did he say something? ?Didn’t read the article.
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?...at CNN-sponsored event. ?This is a puff-piece to the extreme: ? ?
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Re: CNN: Biden was wonderful..
The article was written by CNN, but the event itself was not
sponsored by CNN.
Aloha,
Celeste Rogers
Ed Lomas wrote:
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...at CNN-sponsored event. ?This is a puff-piece to the extreme: ?
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...at CNN-sponsored event. ?This is a puff-piece to the extreme: ? ?
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The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot - Glenn Greenwald
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big brother alert - caught on camera
ENVIRONMENT
Mulch ado about nothing: fined for fly-tipping leaves
Musician told he must pay ?150 after sweeping up leaf litter from the street and scattering it in woods
Sophie Barnes
A PROFESSIONAL pianist has been fined for fly-tipping after sweeping up mulch from the pavement outside his house and scattering it in a wood.
Pianist John Goodall Smith hoped that the leaves he disposed of would decompose
A CCTV camera caught him and he received a ?150 penalty – the same as for dumping non-biodegradable waste such as building rubble.
John Goodall Smith, 56, said: “The council told me leaves are controlled waste and the owner of the land has to pay to have the council come along and collect them and I thought ‘What? ?Garden leaves? They’re not even my leaves!’ I could have swept them over to the other side of the road.
“It doesn’t really encourage people to be decent citizens if you’re going to get penalised by this tick-box mentality which lumps you into this category of being a criminal.
“I was doing a good deed, believing I was taking responsibility, and I’ve ended up falling foul of the law. I didn’t think we were doing anything wrong. It wasn’t like we were fly-tipping – dumping a fridge or a sofa.”
When the musician moved with his wife, Sharon, to a four-bed rental property in Upper Penn, Wolverhampton, on Oct 3 he discovered he didn’t have a garden waste bin.
The couple assumed they wouldn’t need to order one because they didn’t have a back garden. A month later his parking spaces and the pavement outside were covered in leaves from two large trees on the road.
Mr Smith scooped up three bags of leaves but as he had nowhere to put them, he and Sharon, a cake-maker, drove to nearby countryside and left them in a wooded area to degrade.
But council cameras captured him scattering the leaves and, despite not leaving any plastic bin bags, he received a penalty notice of ?200, reduced to ?150 if paid promptly, from neighbouring South Staffordshire council. Mr Smith paid up as he didn’t want it to go to court but said that innocent people were being shamed for small amounts of biodegradable waste.
Fly-tipping costs the UK ?57?million annually with a million incidents recorded every year. Tradesmen who do not want to pay for waste permits are often to blame.
A South Staffordshire council spokesman said leaves counted as waste. She added: “A proactive approach has seen covert cameras installed in areas where fly-tipping has been an issue in South Staffordshire, in a targeted approach to tackling environmental crime.”
Roger Lees, a cabinet member for planning and regulatory services, said the council was working to stop illegal dumping. ?“Fly-tipping is a real blight in rural areas but we are determined to catch those responsible and bring them to account,” he said. “Fly-tipping at any time is irresponsible and shows no regard for the communities it spoils or the people who have to clear it up. But at a time when our public services are doing their utmost to support people through the Covid pandemic these irresponsible actions are unforgivable.
“Fly-tipping is illegal and includes dumping garden waste anywhere, including in hedgerows, grass verges and woodlands.
“Just because it may eventually ?compost down does not make dumping acceptable or permissible and there is simply no excuse so don’t do it, as we will always look to prosecute those responsible for fly-tipping and littering within South Staffordshire.”
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk
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On Feb 13, 2021, at 15:37, Ed Lomas <relomas2@...> wrote:
?Hmmph; I suppose they'll go after the Rolling Stones now for that photo from the 70s where they posed in SS uniforms with provocatively dressed underaged girls.? Mick should be stripped if his knighthood for that one. On Saturday, February 13, 2021, a1thighmaster < thighmaster@...> wrote:
ROTFLMAO!!! America is so
far behind that we'll never catch up.
Aloha,
Celeste Rogers
On 2/9/2021 3:53 PM, David Smith wrote:
This is Britain.? Can America be far behind?
Is a vile tweet about Captain Tom
really a matter for the police?
9 February 2021, 11:20am
Should it be
illegal to be a moron? That’s the question we really need to
be asking ourselves in the wake of the arrest of a?man in
Scotland over a vile tweet about the death of Captain Tom
Moore, the Second World War veteran who became a national
treasure in 2020 for his NHS fundraising.
Police
Scotland has that a 35-year-old man has
been charged ‘in connection with communication offences’. What
it is he actually said wasn’t made clear. But a subsequent , and much online chatter, points
to this delightful post: ‘The only good Brit soldier is a deed
one, burn auld fella, buuuuurn.’
That the post
was offensive – and the person who posted it an idiot – goes
without saying. But far more alarming than this single tweet,
or the psychology of the individual responsible for it, is the
fact it led to an arrest. In a free society, you should be
free to say objectionable things, even about someone as loved
as Captain Tom.
The tweet
could hardly be said to be threatening, harassing or inciting
violence against its target, given Moore has already died.
Instead, the hapless tweeter?seems to have fallen foul of ,
which makes it an offence to post something that is ‘grossly
offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character’.
This is an
offence so broad that it has caught much less objectionable
individuals in its net. In 2018, a was given a curfew
for quoting rap lyrics on Instagram. That same
year, Scottish YouTuber was convicted under Section
127 and subsequently fined for a skit in which he taught his
pug to do a Nazi salute.
The thing
about offensive, even ‘grossly offensive’, speech is that what
constitutes it is entirely subjective. One man’s sick joke is
another man’s blasphemy. That the person responsible for the
Captain Tom tweet?said something most will find disgusting
doesn’t make this case any less dangerous: in the end, he has
been arrested for saying something
nasty on the internet.
What’s more, a
moral panic about ‘trolling’ could lead to the internet
becoming a less free place for all of us. The government is
talking about potentially fining social-media firms for
failing to remove . When this was tried in
Germany, it incentivised hasty moderation decisions that led
to .
In any case,
the idea that the internet is some Wild West now is patently
untrue. The law and Big Tech’s own policies are already far
too restrictive. A 2017 found that nine people a day were
being arrested for offensive posts. And Silicon Valley, lest
we forget, recently deplatformed a sitting president on .
We seem to be
incapable as a society of condemning speech we find
objectionable without also demanding it be made illegal. Don’t
go out of your way to upset people, treat others as you’d like
to be treated, don’t speak ill of the dead: these are all
perfectly good rules to live by, but they needn’t be enforced
by law.
Another old
adage we’d do well to remember is ‘sticks and stones may break
my bones but words will never hurt me’. We used to teach that
to small children. Now it is apparently a callous denial of a
serious problem, a trolls’ charter. But if we only tried
sticking to it for a while, we’d be in a much healthier place
as a society.
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Hmmph; I suppose they'll go after the Rolling Stones now for that photo from the 70s where they posed in SS uniforms with provocatively dressed underaged girls.? Mick should be stripped if his knighthood for that one.
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On Saturday, February 13, 2021, a1thighmaster < thighmaster@...> wrote:
ROTFLMAO!!! America is so
far behind that we'll never catch up.
Aloha,
Celeste Rogers
On 2/9/2021 3:53 PM, David Smith wrote:
This is Britain.? Can America be far behind?
Is a vile tweet about Captain Tom
really a matter for the police?
9 February 2021, 11:20am
Should it be
illegal to be a moron? That’s the question we really need to
be asking ourselves in the wake of the arrest of a?man in
Scotland over a vile tweet about the death of Captain Tom
Moore, the Second World War veteran who became a national
treasure in 2020 for his NHS fundraising.
Police
Scotland has that a 35-year-old man has
been charged ‘in connection with communication offences’. What
it is he actually said wasn’t made clear. But a subsequent , and much online chatter, points
to this delightful post: ‘The only good Brit soldier is a deed
one, burn auld fella, buuuuurn.’
That the post
was offensive – and the person who posted it an idiot – goes
without saying. But far more alarming than this single tweet,
or the psychology of the individual responsible for it, is the
fact it led to an arrest. In a free society, you should be
free to say objectionable things, even about someone as loved
as Captain Tom.
The tweet
could hardly be said to be threatening, harassing or inciting
violence against its target, given Moore has already died.
Instead, the hapless tweeter?seems to have fallen foul of ,
which makes it an offence to post something that is ‘grossly
offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character’.
This is an
offence so broad that it has caught much less objectionable
individuals in its net. In 2018, a was given a curfew
for quoting rap lyrics on Instagram. That same
year, Scottish YouTuber was convicted under Section
127 and subsequently fined for a skit in which he taught his
pug to do a Nazi salute.
The thing
about offensive, even ‘grossly offensive’, speech is that what
constitutes it is entirely subjective. One man’s sick joke is
another man’s blasphemy. That the person responsible for the
Captain Tom tweet?said something most will find disgusting
doesn’t make this case any less dangerous: in the end, he has
been arrested for saying something
nasty on the internet.
What’s more, a
moral panic about ‘trolling’ could lead to the internet
becoming a less free place for all of us. The government is
talking about potentially fining social-media firms for
failing to remove . When this was tried in
Germany, it incentivised hasty moderation decisions that led
to .
In any case,
the idea that the internet is some Wild West now is patently
untrue. The law and Big Tech’s own policies are already far
too restrictive. A 2017 found that nine people a day were
being arrested for offensive posts. And Silicon Valley, lest
we forget, recently deplatformed a sitting president on .
We seem to be
incapable as a society of condemning speech we find
objectionable without also demanding it be made illegal. Don’t
go out of your way to upset people, treat others as you’d like
to be treated, don’t speak ill of the dead: these are all
perfectly good rules to live by, but they needn’t be enforced
by law.
Another old
adage we’d do well to remember is ‘sticks and stones may break
my bones but words will never hurt me’. We used to teach that
to small children. Now it is apparently a callous denial of a
serious problem, a trolls’ charter. But if we only tried
sticking to it for a while, we’d be in a much healthier place
as a society.
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ROTFLMAO!!! America is so
far behind that we'll never catch up.
Aloha,
Celeste Rogers
On 2/9/2021 3:53 PM, David Smith wrote:
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
This is Britain. ?Can America be far behind?
Is a vile tweet about Captain Tom
really a matter for the police?
9 February 2021, 11:20am
Should it be
illegal to be a moron? That’s the question we really need to
be asking ourselves in the wake of the arrest of a?man in
Scotland over a vile tweet about the death of Captain Tom
Moore, the Second World War veteran who became a national
treasure in 2020 for his NHS fundraising.
Police
Scotland has that a 35-year-old man has
been charged ‘in connection with communication offences’. What
it is he actually said wasn’t made clear. But a subsequent , and much online chatter, points
to this delightful post: ‘The only good Brit soldier is a deed
one, burn auld fella, buuuuurn.’
That the post
was offensive – and the person who posted it an idiot – goes
without saying. But far more alarming than this single tweet,
or the psychology of the individual responsible for it, is the
fact it led to an arrest. In a free society, you should be
free to say objectionable things, even about someone as loved
as Captain Tom.
The tweet
could hardly be said to be threatening, harassing or inciting
violence against its target, given Moore has already died.
Instead, the hapless tweeter?seems to have fallen foul of ,
which makes it an offence to post something that is ‘grossly
offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character’.
This is an
offence so broad that it has caught much less objectionable
individuals in its net. In 2018, a was given a curfew
for quoting rap lyrics on Instagram. That same
year, Scottish YouTuber was convicted under Section
127 and subsequently fined for a skit in which he taught his
pug to do a Nazi salute.
The thing
about offensive, even ‘grossly offensive’, speech is that what
constitutes it is entirely subjective. One man’s sick joke is
another man’s blasphemy. That the person responsible for the
Captain Tom tweet?said something most will find disgusting
doesn’t make this case any less dangerous: in the end, he has
been arrested for saying something
nasty on the internet.
What’s more, a
moral panic about ‘trolling’ could lead to the internet
becoming a less free place for all of us. The government is
talking about potentially fining social-media firms for
failing to remove . When this was tried in
Germany, it incentivised hasty moderation decisions that led
to .
In any case,
the idea that the internet is some Wild West now is patently
untrue. The law and Big Tech’s own policies are already far
too restrictive. A 2017 found that nine people a day were
being arrested for offensive posts. And Silicon Valley, lest
we forget, recently deplatformed a sitting president on .
We seem to be
incapable as a society of condemning speech we find
objectionable without also demanding it be made illegal. Don’t
go out of your way to upset people, treat others as you’d like
to be treated, don’t speak ill of the dead: these are all
perfectly good rules to live by, but they needn’t be enforced
by law.
Another old
adage we’d do well to remember is ‘sticks and stones may break
my bones but words will never hurt me’. We used to teach that
to small children. Now it is apparently a callous denial of a
serious problem, a trolls’ charter. But if we only tried
sticking to it for a while, we’d be in a much healthier place
as a society.
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Re: [m-scholars-and-scribes] Re: Friday Five Feb 12
1. If someone has that blank look on their face
2. A code is used on words or phrases while a cipher is used for
individual letters.
3. Pretty much
4. I like it a lot better than not being able to see someone while
interacting.
5. No, only some occasional excerpts on local news programs
Aloha,
Celeste Rogers
Anabel Perez wrote:
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1.? How can
you tell when someone you are talking with needs
further explanation of what you are trying to convey?
2.?
Can you define "codes" and "ciphers" and elucidate the
difference between the two?
3.? Do
you life in an extremely like minded community - ie
are you surrounded on a daily basis by people who
think the way you do?
4.? Do
you find ZOOM satisfactory or irritating?
5. Are
you watching the impeachment trial?
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1. ?How can you tell when someone you are talking with needs further explanation of what you are trying to convey?
You can see if their facial expression is bewildered.
2. ?Can you define "codes" and "ciphers" and elucidate the difference between the two?
No, but Marvin has done it for us.
3. ?Do you live in an extremely like-minded community - ie are you surrounded on a daily basis by people who think the way you do?
No, my community has all sorts of interesting people living here.
4. ?Do you find ZOOM satisfactory or irritating?
I find ZOOM useful for my limited needs. People who work need it more than I do.
5. Are you watching the impeachment trial?
Yes, I follow it every day. I think Trump will be acquitted because there are not enough Republican senators willing to stand against him.
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1.? How can you tell when someone you are talking with needs further explanation of what you are trying to convey?
2.? Can you define "codes" and "ciphers" and elucidate the difference between the two?
3.? Do you life in an extremely like minded community - ie are you surrounded on a daily basis by people who think the way you do?
4.? Do you find ZOOM satisfactory or irritating?
5. Are you watching the impeachment trial?
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Re: [m-scholars-and-scribes] Re: Friday Five Feb 12
1.? How can you tell when someone you are talking with needs further explanation of what you are trying to convey? Depends on several things, It's easier to tell if that person wants further explanation or not... I usually find out after over explaning...
2.? Can you define "codes" and "ciphers" and elucidate the difference between the two? Nope
3.? Do you life in an extremely like minded community - ie are you surrounded on a daily basis by people who think the way you do? Nope
4.? Do you find ZOOM satisfactory or irritating? Satisfactory, but can be used better. I still see conection problems.
5. Are you watching the impeachment trial? Nope Slds
Anabel Pérez Bemporat
Despachante de Aduana Lic. Comercio Internacional?
Capacitadora en Aduanas y Comercio Exterior Argentinos
? Foros actualizados !??y? ?
- Mirá las novedades: Especial: Controles para IMPO con Valor Criterio
Detalles de Impos para Proyecciones 2020 y para 7030!
?C.O.D.,?TAD,?DJCP,?D J O N P?!
Descarga de Insumos en PreDespachos, LNA, Facturación Electrónica, SETI Autoarchivo, i-Sap...???Qué necesitás?
#ReportSystem #CustomsaduanaS #ForoATAsARG #DJONP #DJCP #TAD
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1.? How can you tell when someone you are talking with needs further explanation of what you are trying to convey?
2.? Can you define "codes" and "ciphers" and elucidate the difference between the two?
3.? Do you life in an extremely like minded community - ie are you surrounded on a daily basis by people who think the way you do?
4.? Do you find ZOOM satisfactory or irritating?
5. Are you watching the impeachment trial?
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This is Britain. ?Can America be far behind?
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Is a vile tweet about Captain Tom really a matter for the police?
9 February 2021, 11:20am
Should it be illegal to be a moron? That’s the question we really need to be asking ourselves in the wake of the arrest of a?man in Scotland over a vile tweet about the death of Captain Tom Moore, the Second World War veteran who became a national treasure in 2020 for his NHS fundraising.
Police Scotland has that a 35-year-old man has been charged ‘in connection with communication offences’. What it is he actually said wasn’t made clear. But a subsequent , and much online chatter, points to this delightful post: ‘The only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella, buuuuurn.’
That the post was offensive – and the person who posted it an idiot – goes without saying. But far more alarming than this single tweet, or the psychology of the individual responsible for it, is the fact it led to an arrest. In a free society, you should be free to say objectionable things, even about someone as loved as Captain Tom.
The tweet could hardly be said to be threatening, harassing or inciting violence against its target, given Moore has already died. Instead, the hapless tweeter?seems to have fallen foul of , which makes it an offence to post something that is ‘grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character’.
This is an offence so broad that it has caught much less objectionable individuals in its net. In 2018, a was given a curfew for quoting rap lyrics on Instagram. That same year, Scottish YouTuber was convicted under Section 127 and subsequently fined for a skit in which he taught his pug to do a Nazi salute.
The thing about offensive, even ‘grossly offensive’, speech is that what constitutes it is entirely subjective. One man’s sick joke is another man’s blasphemy. That the person responsible for the Captain Tom tweet?said something most will find disgusting doesn’t make this case any less dangerous: in the end, he has been arrested for saying something nasty on the internet.
What’s more, a moral panic about ‘trolling’ could lead to the internet becoming a less free place for all of us. The government is talking about potentially fining social-media firms for failing to remove . When this was tried in Germany, it incentivised hasty moderation decisions that led to .
In any case, the idea that the internet is some Wild West now is patently untrue. The law and Big Tech’s own policies are already far too restrictive. A 2017 found that nine people a day were being arrested for offensive posts. And Silicon Valley, lest we forget, recently deplatformed a sitting president on .
We seem to be incapable as a society of condemning speech we find objectionable without also demanding it be made illegal. Don’t go out of your way to upset people, treat others as you’d like to be treated, don’t speak ill of the dead: these are all perfectly good rules to live by, but they needn’t be enforced by law.
Another old adage we’d do well to remember is ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’. We used to teach that to small children. Now it is apparently a callous denial of a serious problem, a trolls’ charter. But if we only tried sticking to it for a while, we’d be in a much healthier place as a society.
Tom Slater is deputy editor of
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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-sending-a-vile-tweet-about-captain-tom-really-a-matter-for-the-police-
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