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Long sentences for these arseholes.

Good.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce950111xk7o

The sentences are fine - but the jurors should have been told what they were actually charged without the terrorism bits hidden from them.

Mitigating and aggravating factors aren't normally put before jurors are they? Indeed its often illegal to do so, as it can prejudice the jury either way.

Maybe they should be in all cases, but perverse to complain about just this one.

It isn’t an aggravating factor - it’s a whole different law they’ve been sentenced under. If you are going to use a jury they really should be allowed to decide if it’s terrorism or criminal damage and it should be up to the prosecution to argue the point.

Long sentences for these arseholes.

Good.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce950111xk7o

Amazing how many idiots think they can be violent offenders so long as their cause is justified and they call it "direct action".

Protest all you like peacefully. Do it violently as these thugs did, and there are consequences.

Corner, a former student at the University of Oxford, was also convicted of causing grievous bodily harm after he fractured Sgt Kate Evans' spine with a sledgehammer in the raid.

He's lucky he did not get a life sentence.

It's really sad. He was so brainwashed (presumably by his social group or "feed") that he didn't show any remorse for fracturing a police officer's spine with a sledgehammer, instead saying she was complicit in genocide.

So, now, he's got 8 years in jail and I don't think is eligible for early release. He's lost all of his 20s and lots of opportunities in his life.

He will need to show he's learned his lesson to be let out in normal society again. Meanwhile, the police officer has to live with her injuries for life.

Banning under-16s from using YouTube is absolutely batshit crazy Luddism.

Parents should be parenting, not the nanny state.

Are we sure they don't mean YouTube Shorts / Youtube Live?

Apart from anything else, this will spoil children's creative lives - since so many want to create video for YouTube not just watch it. A lot of money and cultural power in content creation about to be cut off.

My daughter loves making short videos for TikTok. It is a nice, healthy, hobby for her and she gets very creative. She first did it to earn a badge with either Brownies or Guides.

Her videos are set to be private and only her mother and grandmother and a select few others even see it, because we exercise parental controls, but she gets very creative and has been learning skills.

All to be banned due to Luddites who want to roll the clock back on technology and want the nanny state to stop parents from parenting.

Another middle class moral panic promoted by lobbyists, aided and abetted by the old media railing against the new media and using people with sad real life experiences to act as emotional blackmail. Support this change or you support children being shown bad stuff.

Clown country.

Note that the problem relates to algorithms and doom scrolling.

My 17 year old (younger) daughter will give a clear and articulate case as to why those issue need to be dealt with.

Incidentally, she says there is some nasty stuff targeting those with ADHD and similar - trying to make them into rebels against "the system that has abandoned you" etc.

The thing is that most of this nasty targeted stuff is targeted in a way that means it’s not visible to other people. The thing about social media is that it’s both fragmented and massive so there is no way anyone can see exactly what someone else is seeing until it’s too late.

My legal requirement would be that an audit trail is provided that allows anyone to see exactly what was shown to someone else - attached to billion dollar fines for inability to provide it on demand within 30 seconds

Parents should then have access and the right to block things they don’t want visible