The UK established an intelligence agency called the Counter Disinformation Unit in 2019.
Expressed purpose “Understanding the spread of disinformation and attempts to artificially manipulate the information environment so that governments can understand the scope and impact of harmful misinformation and take appropriate action.”
Like the Harris-Biden administration and the Stanford Internet Observatory across the Atlantic, the CDU has turned to social media companies in recent years to flag and censor disinformation, for example during the pandemic. Monitored Critics of lockdowns and vaccines and critics targeting government policies.
Amid calls for review and debate over censorship practices, the CDU
Changed the brand name As the National Security Online Intelligence Team.
Despite ongoing concerns about attempts to emulate the Chinese Communist Party’s surveillance regime, the UK government has found another story it wants NSOIT to solve.
“Keyboard warriors can’t hide either.”
Axel Rudakubana, 18, the son of Rwandan immigrants, crashed a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, England, on July 29.
Massacred Three girls, Elsie Dot Stancomb, Alice da Silva Aguiar and Bebe King, were killed in the attack. Rudakubana also seriously injured five other children and two adults.
Authorities initially refused to reveal the nationality of the suspects or release their names upon arrest, as is customary when minors are suspects, and many
Suspect He was an asylum seeker trapped in an extreme ideology.
The protests and riots, fueled by long-standing resentment over unchecked immigration,
The Islamization of Britain, hidingand the failure of assimilation soon began to spread across the country.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said “A reckoning is needed,” he told Sky News Monday.
“Those involved in this unrest need to know they will pay a price,” Cooper said. “Hundreds have already been arrested and we have made it clear to police that we will fully support them in pursuing all prosecutions and penalties, including heavy prison sentences, lengthy tagging and travel bans.”
A mob of several hundred
Reportedly In addition to those arrested, authorities are also pursuing people whose related online posts or comments are alleged to be false or inflammatory.
Cooper added that “keyboard warriors cannot hide” and that “they will be prosecuted and will face severe penalties.”
Reported BBC.
According to According to the Telegraph, NSOIT is currently being used to monitor social media posts about the riots.
The New Left government’s technology secretary, Peter Kyle, has asked NSOIT to track online activity relating to discussion of the Southport girls’ massacre and the protests.
Silky Carlo, head of civil liberties group Big Brother Watch, told The Telegraph: “Given NSOIT’s appalling track record during the pandemic of policing the lawful and accurate speech of journalists, scientists, parliamentarians, human rights activists and ordinary citizens when they legitimately question the government’s management of the pandemic, we have serious doubts about whether the company is fit for this task.”
“This is the reality of 1984.”
“It is disturbing that NSOIT acted so soon after its controversial activities were exposed and before it has undergone the important independent investigation called for by the Culture Committee,” Carlo added.
Carlo then
Written In the editorial:
The “internet lies” description neatly sums up our country’s long-running breakdown in law and order, frayed social fabric, and simmering racism, along with a highly sophisticated response of online censorship that benefits elites who have never trusted us with free and open access to information online.
A government spokesman played down the issue of online surveillance and intelligence policing, telling The Telegraph: “We have been abundantly clear that what is illegal offline is also illegal online and thugs who incite violence on our streets deserve rigorous enforcement of the law.”
“We make no apologies for monitoring public content that threatens public safety, and the information is reported to social media companies where it may breach their terms of use and to police where it rises to criminal thresholds,” the spokesperson added.
Apparently NSOIT isn’t the only one making sure Brits are only sharing government-approved information online.
Stephen Parkinson, Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales, said:
Recently said “We have dedicated police officers combing through social media. Their job is to: [racially inflammatory] We will obtain the documents, then we will carry out identification, arrests, etc.”
“People may think they’re not doing anything harmful, but they’re not,” Parkinson added, “and the consequences will come back to haunt them.”
Responding to Mr Parkinson’s comments, Father Calvin Robinson told Blaze News Tonight: “This is 1984 reality.”
Robinson further suggested that whatever form these efforts take, police and governments are working to stop the spread of “information that they don’t think is true, information that we may think is true but they don’t”.
In addition to the UK government’s efforts to control the flow of information online, left-wing Chancellor Keir Starmer
Promised “More widespread adoption of facial recognition technology.”
Carlo answered.
say“This AI surveillance turns ordinary citizens into walking ID cards, is dangerously inaccurate and has no clear legal basis in the UK.”
Big Brother Watch has suggested that the majority of police live facial recognition matches in the UK are false positives, “falsely flagging innocent members of the public as suspects”.
Darragh Murray, senior lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, said:
said The Guardian stated, “There is a clear danger that in responding to tragedy and social unrest, we will expand and intensify police surveillance without proper scrutiny. Given that police have been responding to disorder and riots for decades, why do we need facial recognition now?”
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