Dashcam Danger

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The Free Speech Union had to step in after a driver's dashcam footage was used to prosecute him for a remark he made in his car after having to swerve to avoid a collision.

No charges against the other driver but he was charged for a remark made in his car which nobody heard.

Found not guilty.

https://spectator.com/article/beware-the-crime-of-...

[Richard-D]

If this is genuine it should surely result in a reduction in funding for the force that decided to pursue it.

[John145]

And the FSU's article:

https://freespeechunion.org/news/even-muttering-so...

It's certainly not a one off, from the same article:

"In one case, a couple were out horse riding with their fourteen-year-old daughter on a single-track country lane in Cambridgeshire when a car overtook them without slowing down. The mother made a rude gesture; the car skidded to a halt, and two travellers got out and began abusing her daughter. While on the phone to the police, the mother called one of the men a "". "

Threatening behaviour towards a woman and a girl, NFA. Saying nasty words certainly resulted in further action needing NFU support to get them to FO.

Despicable.

[Crumpet]

Given that our phones are listening to us constantly, mainly to sell us st, it’s not a massive leap to see big brother listening out for hurty words or wrong-think and then prosecuting (or deleting social credits in our dystopian future).

I no longer view conspiracy theorists as nutjobs as very little makes sense any more and some of them are probably right.

[rodericb]

That's some 1984 st right there.

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rodericb said:

That's some 1984 st right there.

Thought police.