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Should the white house respond to the UK?

I’m still confused. That isn’t what OP said.
"We are seeing threats of extradition for negative social media post from the UK, should the US government come out and say our citizens have freedom of speech within our borders?"

Not sure what else that could mean. Someone shit posting from USA and the UK wanting to arrest them but can't because they're doing it from here.
 
Do you believe that folks who knowingly lie and spread untruths under the cover of “free speech” should be held harmless because if the 1st Amendment. Don’t you think such persons are abusing the intent of The First?
Do you place any filters of “free speech”…. Because the SC has.

HORT would be a ghost town if we cracked down on that.
 
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London’s Metropolitan Police chief warned that officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commentary on the riots in the UK, but on American citizens as well.

“We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News.



I believe extradition only comes into play if the accusation is a crime in both countries.

We can keep calling biscuits cookies and these bastards are helpless to do anything about it.
Thanks for this. As I scrolled down I kept looking for context or background so I could understand the issue, and I finally found it on the 27th post.

Pretty sure that London's Metropolitan Police Chief won't have much luck coming after Joe from Chicago for tweeting "That's some good rioting lads - keep up the good work and stick it to the Man!"
 
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People are here from the UK tweeting things that would be illegal in their own country. But when the police show up to their houses to arrest them in the UK, they are learning that the person is in America tweeting the "illegal" stuff. The question becomes "Should the USA allow for extradition of these "mean people" back to the UK so they can be arrested for their speech crimes?"

Why would the U.S. allow extradition to another country for an act that isn’t unlawful in this country?
 
"We are seeing threats of extradition for negative social media post from the UK, should the US government come out and say our citizens have freedom of speech within our borders?"

Not sure what else that could mean. Someone shit posting from USA and the UK wanting to arrest them but can't because they're doing it from here.
Ok, but your first attempt at an explanation referenced UK citizens posting from the U.S., while Whiskey is talking about US citizens.
That’s why I was asking for clarification.

Also, all of this seems to be coming from a FOXNews.com article where the only one who mentions extradition is the reporter. Is there a better source for the UK government “threatening” US citizens with extradition?

https://www.foxnews.com/media/uk-po...zens-over-social-media-posts-we-come-afte.amp
 
Ok, but your first attempt at an explanation referenced UK citizens posting from the U.S., while Whiskey is talking about US citizens.
That’s why I was asking for clarification.

Also, all of this seems to be coming from a FOXNews.com article where the only one who mentions extradition is the reporter. Is there a better source for the UK government “threatening” US citizens with extradition?

https://www.foxnews.com/media/uk-po...zens-over-social-media-posts-we-come-afte.amp
if conservatives are scared of something and you don't understand what they're talking about...you know where to look
 
Ok, but your first attempt at an explanation referenced UK citizens posting from the U.S., while Whiskey is talking about US citizens.
That’s why I was asking for clarification.

Also, all of this seems to be coming from a FOXNews.com article where the only one who mentions extradition is the reporter. Is there a better source for the UK government “threatening” US citizens with extradition?

https://www.foxnews.com/media/uk-po...zens-over-social-media-posts-we-come-afte.amp


 

Thanks?

All from the same source
 

A single individual, thanks for clarifying what we have already stated.
 
It was pertaining to the post I quoted.
Well then I stand by not all speech is protected when it is intended to incite or produce imment lawless action. Supreme Court 1969 Brandenburg vs Ohio. It still wouldn't allow for someone to be extradited though. Although that other country could block that speech in that country.
 
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FYI at no point did he state extradite. He stated couple be charged. They have that right.
 

UK police commissioner threatens to extradite, jail US citizens over online posts: ‘We’ll come after you’​


“We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News.

...

A Sky News reporter asked Commissioner Rowley to further explain his warning, arguing that high profile figures have been “whipping up the hatred,” and that “the likes of Elon Musk” have been getting involved.

She then asked what the police force’s plan will be “when it comes to dealing with people who are whipping up this kind of behavior from behind the keyboard who may be in a different country?”

Rowley answered by telling the reporter, “Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law.”
“You can be guilty of offenses of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred, there are numerous terrorist offenses regarding the publishing of material,” he said.

“All of those offenses are in play if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals just as we will physically confront on the streets the thugs and the yobs who are taking — who are causing the problems for communities.”

 
Well, if Brits tried to get US to extradite American citizens to UK for this, I think both parties would tell the British ambassador to stick it where the Sun don’t shine (politely, we’re allies).
 

UK police commissioner threatens to extradite, jail US citizens over online posts: ‘We’ll come after you’​


“We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News.

...

A Sky News reporter asked Commissioner Rowley to further explain his warning, arguing that high profile figures have been “whipping up the hatred,” and that “the likes of Elon Musk” have been getting involved.

She then asked what the police force’s plan will be “when it comes to dealing with people who are whipping up this kind of behavior from behind the keyboard who may be in a different country?”

Rowley answered by telling the reporter, “Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law.”
“You can be guilty of offenses of incitement, of stirring up racial hatred, there are numerous terrorist offenses regarding the publishing of material,” he said.

“All of those offenses are in play if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals just as we will physically confront on the streets the thugs and the yobs who are taking — who are causing the problems for communities.”

How many times are you going to post the same FOXNews piece?
 
Anything wrong with government fighting disinformation?

‘Fighting’ it how?

I mean, aside from the fact it’s usually the worst purveyor, we already have the receipts when FBI agents were hectoring social media companies to suppress and de-platform unfavored viewpoints.

The viewpoints didn’t even have to be wrong, just perceived as contrary to official messaging.

That’s the problem with tasking the government with ‘fighting’ whatever the bureaucracy tags as ‘disinformation’.

Do you want to see the government ‘requesting’ (all while threatening regulatory changes) the ‘de-amplification’ of people who oppose the invasion of Iraq, or Libya, or Somalia, or Syria, or Iran, or Russia, or wherever the hell the neocons set their sights on next?

Really?
 
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He said extradite?
I’ve been asking for that quote all morning.
She then asked what the police force’s plan will be “when it comes to dealing with people who are whipping up this kind of behavior from behind the keyboard who may be in a different country?”

Rowley answered by telling the reporter, “Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law.”



How does the UK enforce their laws on someone in a different country?

There’s a word for it, can you help me?
 
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She then asked what the police force’s plan will be “when it comes to dealing with people who are whipping up this kind of behavior from behind the keyboard who may be in a different country?”

Rowley answered by telling the reporter, “Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law.”



How does the UK enforce their laws on someone in a different country?

There’s a word for it, can you help me?
So he never mentioned extradition. Got it.

You understand charges can be brought against someone in another country without pursuing extradition, right?
 
How many times are you going to dismiss the fact that it's been picked up by and run by multiple sources?

How many times are you going to be intentionally obtuse about what that police official was inferring?
how about a second source (not an internet search result) that isn't owned by rupert murdoch?

and do people really think that a police chief has the power to extradite people?
 
How many times are you going to dismiss the fact that it's been picked up by and run by multiple sources?

How many times are you going to be intentionally obtuse about what that police official was inferring?
So you admit he didn’t say extradition?

Maybe he’s referring to that process, who knows. But what law would U.S. citizens be breaking that would even begin to support extradition? Otherwise what the UK does doesn’t mean squat.
 
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“We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News.
Exactly. He said nothing about extradition. Maybe you're getting it now.

Nevermind, no chance of that.
 
So you admit he didn’t say extradition?

Maybe he’s referring to that process, who knows. But what law would U.S. citizens be breaking that would even begin to support extradition? Otherwise what the UK does doesn’t mean squat.

What do you think this means?

“We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News.
 
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