![]() ![]() It has gotten no less popular as time goes on. The maximum punishment under the law is life in prison. It has already led to several arrests of activists, and has silenced protesters. The law, introduced earlier this year, criminalises secession, subversion and collusion with foreign forces. Residents can anonymously send in images, audio and videos if they suspect someone has violated the law. Hong Kong’s new hotline to report breaches of the controversial national security law has received more than 1,000 calls within hours of going live. As the BBC reports, the snitch hotline set up by Hong Kong’s subservient quote/enquote “public servants” has proven popular with those attempting to ingratiate themselves to their new overlords. “ See something, say something” works everywhere, even in a free market paradise like Hong Kong. Throw enough oppression at people and you’ll unearth the percentage of the public that would rather lick boot than support their fellow Hong Kong residents. It has directly targeted pro-democracy protesters and government critics in Hong Kong, leveraging its “national security” law to create life sentences for people who rightfully think the Chinese government should back off for at least another seven years. The clock runs out in 2047 but the Chinese government isn’t interested in letting the good faith agreement remain in place. The Chinese government agreed to not turn Hong Kong into China 1.5 for fifty years. We all love to see colonialism dismantled, but when the recipient is China, caution should be deployed. The protesters in Hong Kong have a point: the Chinese government is supposed to stay the fuck out of managing Hong Kong’s day-to-day governance for 50 years after its securing of this profitable market sector from the British in 1997. ![]() ![]() It’s a terrible idea that makes no sense, but I guess you could say the same thing about Senator Manchin himself.Īnyway, you might want to let your Senators know not to support this terrible legislation that would not just force websites into a ton of useless busywork, but would also flood the government with totally useless STAR reports that keep them from doing actual useful work.įiled Under: joe manchin, say something, section 230, see something, see something say something, star report It has a long history of basically encouraging overly paranoid bigots to report everything they find suspicious about non-white people, and it has resulted in floods of useless reports that the police have to sort through, and almost no actual useful, actionable data.Īnd now, Senator Joe Manchin wants to recreate that mess… but for everything on the internet.Īnd he wants to do it by quietly hiding his bill in the must pass NDAA, even though this bill has fuck all to do with the military. Of course, we already know that the original “see something, say something” program (which is trademarked by the NYC Metropolitan Transit Authority, who is crazy fucking litigious about it) has been a complete and total disaster. Still, the law says it covers content the website “should have reasonably known” about as well, meaning that even if you take the eyes-covered approach, you still have to litigate whether you should have magically known about this bad thing found online. The law applies to “known suspicious transmission” which means it will actually encourage websites to take a less proactive approach to reviewing content, because they will claim that if they don’t look, they couldn’t have known. See someone mention drugs? File a report! See someone slightly mean to someone else? File a STAR. You know how under the law right now, if a website finds child sexual abuse material, it needs to report it to NCMEC? Well, this law basically expands that to… well… everything. It’s a direct attack on Section 230, in that it would force companies to file “Suspicious Transmission Activity Reports” (STAR) for basically anything “suspicious” they see online. If you don’t recall the See Something, Say Something bill, we wrote up a long deconstruction of it two years ago, when he first pushed this monstrosity. It happens every year like clockwork, and I’m sure we’ll be noting some other attempts to sneak through bad bills, but last week, Senator Joe Manchin pushed to have his absolutely terrible “See Something, Say Something” bill attached to the National Defense Authorization Act, better known as the NDAA, and long considered a “must pass” so that we have, you know, a military doing stuff. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… in that politicians who couldn’t pass their terrible and destructive bills through normal means are trying to light up various must pass funding and omnibus end-of-year bills with those failed bills as amendments. Thu, Oct 13th 2022 09:20am - Mike Masnick ![]()
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