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LEO forum??
Law Enforcement forum
LEO means 'Law Enforcement Officer'
LEO forum??
never heard of a Law Enforcement Forum before!!
Here something for our cousins over in Europe, and yes, including UK
https://heatst.com/world/police-rai...-people-who-posted-offensive-comments-online/
"It should be absolutely apparent that free speech is dead in Europe, if it ever existed at all. While a man in Scotland faces a year in prison for an offensive YouTube video and British police scour social media for xenophobic responses to terror attacks, things are not much better on the mainland.
Today, German police conducted nationwide raids on citizens who posted offensive comments or participated in online “hate groups.” This is the second annual day of action against “hate posting.”
Twenty-three police departments were deployed across 14 german states, to enter the homes of 36 suspected hate posters and confiscate their internet connected devices, according to a press release from the German ferderal police (BKA).
Police apparently focused on political hate speech, and moved against two leftwingers and one from the Reichsbürger movement, a group that believes the current German government is illegitimate.
According to Abendzeitung, police arrived at one man’s house in Munich at 6am and confiscated two of his cell phones. The 23-year-old was accused of commenting that gays should hang themselves underneath a Facebook photo of two men kissing.
In Berlin, police raided the homes of nine suspects, confiscating their laptops and cell phones.
Germans can receive up to 5 years in prison for “hate posting.”"
Probably more than several, it don't take much to hurt the feelings of the pols but much of the world no longer subscribe to the 4th grade play ground rules of;
'Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me' Welcome to the P/C culture of the 21st century. It's not just words in parts of Europe, it's also the subject matter that will get one on the watch list even if it has nothing to do with perceived hate speech.
This is scary for a number of reasons. If the feds can do this, hackers soon will - if they already can. People Snoop in other people's emails to know when their kids go to school (so that they can be kidnapped, etc) or to fin when the home will be empty so it can be robbed, etc. The problem here is not WHO can hack into your home computers but that it can be done. I think there is a fairly simple solution to this, called a firewall. Some routers have built in firewalls, or they can be purchased or made out of computers you may already have.
Good point.Anything one post on the internet is game, that's all one has to remember. What's on the internet is on the internet forever, no such thing as deleting in our current technological advancement, nothing is sacred if made available to the worlds depository called the internet.
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