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Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

The remains in the cremation bucket were too far burnt for DNA analysis, the comb though that was found is having DNA testing now and as far as I know those results haven't been released yet.

I've been to Sutton Hoo a few times. Fascinating place.

The Dig is a very good film about it on Netflix

Yeah, sorry - no i mean the image in the artwork (left side of that picture) is of a black woman warrior, not the person who was buried there
 
The rise of outright racism in this country is horrific mate. Seeing it more and more now in life, on transport, overhearing conversations etc......dreadful

I recently came across a speech Albert Camus gave in March 1945 (think about THAT!)...it described a war on intelligence, and essentially detailed what I see as having been a thing globally for the last while or so...check this quote from his speech. "A few years ago, when Nazis had just seized power, Goering gave a fair idea of their philosophy by declaring: 'When anyone talks to me of intelligence, I take out my revolver.' And that philosophy was not limited to Germany. At the same time throughtout civilised Europe the excesses of intelligence and faults of the intellectual were being pointed out..."
I mean, it could've been written last week!!!!!
 
how has he not been arrested for that?

surely thats inciting a hate crime
As much as it is awful what happened to the family as a result if you start arresting people for sharing videos or photos with "WTF is going on, where are the parents?" You'd be arresting half the population. We have entered a real era of police officer being a total sh*t show job because people have the expectation that they must respond to every little petty grievance with the full force of the law and then complain about responses to serious crimes.

An arrest isnt just an arrest, its then taking him to a custody suite, waiting in the inevitable queue to see the custody sergeant, booking him in, and the sergeant expects a robust legal explanation for the offence and the necessity for the arrest as opposed to another alternative such as invite for a voluntary interview under caution.

Then you've got to wait for the solicitor if they want one and/or for an interview suite to become available.

Then you've got to do the interview.

Then you've got to sort bail.

Then you've got to write the whole thing up and file it.

An arrest is f*cking hours sometimes days worth of work.
 
You can often map a clear path from a person's anguish, in this case the person in the video and how the anguish started in this case from someone sharing a video and falsely claiming them to be a paedophile and take action.

At the end of the day it isn't enough to just shrug our shoulders at someone being horrendously wronged and say "the paper trails too hard to right the wrong"

The internet is the new street, if people are putting out racism, inciting violence, harassing people and stalking, it needs to be dealt with because ONLINE is fast eclipsing in person interactions as a norm, as I say, no good pretending stuff online is just free speech where in real life its racism and just shrugging our shoulders saying "its too hard a job to sort".
 
You can often map a clear path from a person's anguish, in this case the person in the video and how the anguish started in this case from someone sharing a video and falsely claiming them to be a paedophile and take action.

At the end of the day it isn't enough to just shrug our shoulders at someone being horrendously wronged and say "the paper trails too hard to right the wrong"

The internet is the new street, if people are putting out racism, inciting violence, harassing people and stalking, it needs to be dealt with because ONLINE is fast eclipsing in person interactions as a norm, as I say, no good pretending stuff online is just free speech where in real life its racism and just shrugging our shoulders saying "its too hard a job to sort".
The question is whether an arrest is necessary.
The police get reports like this all the time BTW. Reports of old man paedoing in a park that turns out to be their grandad giving them a hug is literally a routine job in the police. People are nosey and love jumping to conclusions/assumptions.

Also the article seems to imply that TR didn't acuse him of being a paedo, if you're dealing with him posting a video and saying "wtf is going on here where are the parents" you're up against it making out the offence as its kind of implied which then other people have taken to the next level but they will point to "TR posted it" so you're going to the responsibility people have if they have large followings and policing the rapid chain reactions and Chinese whispers of SM is practically an impossibility.

I mean how many people are you having to investigate here to take into account all of the potential offences leading to the outcome where his employer has suspended him etc? Thats the problem. If 1,000 people have called him a paedo and 1,000s more have shared it it turns into a f**king nightmare. This is where we need the social media platforms to start taking responsibility and applying a bit of consequence management to accounts
 
The question is whether an arrest is necessary.
The police get reports like this all the time BTW. Reports of old man paedoing in a park that turns out to be their grandad giving them a hug is literally a routine job in the police. People are nosey and love jumping to conclusions/assumptions.

Also the article seems to imply that TR didn't acuse him of being a paedo, if you're dealing with him posting a video and saying "wtf is going on here where are the parents" you're up against it making out the offence as its kind of implied which then other people have taken to the next level but they will point to "TR posted it" so you're going to the responsibility people have if they have large followings and policing the rapid chain reactions and Chinese whispers of SM is practically an impossibility.

I mean how many people are you having to investigate here to take into account all of the potential offences leading to the outcome where his employer has suspended him etc? Thats the problem. If 1,000 people have called him a paedo and 1,000s more have shared it it turns into a f**king nightmare. This is where we need the social media platforms to start taking responsibility and applying a bit of consequence management to accounts

Im not talking about Chinese whispers though, I am talking about when there are clear cases of people being targeted which happens a hell of alot with zero consequence.

Then simply online needs to be policed better so that people are not so fully comfortable saying what they are online that they clearly would not say in life. People will argue against things like having to provide ID for social media (usually those with stuff to hide) but I would 100% advocate it and stop Dave@12347658 and the like the ability to be racist and make baseless accusations online. As soon as Musk and FB Bell3nd cosied up to the idea that anything written online was fair game and free speech the world became a darker place and people like this the poor bloke talked about originally have it FAR tougher as a result.

Humans are unfortunately cnuts in large numbers, if people don't think that requires a level of policing and restriction online then I think those people are being extremely dumb
 
Im not talking about Chinese whispers though, I am talking about when there are clear cases of people being targeted which happens a hell of alot with zero consequence.

Then simply online needs to be policed better so that people are not so fully comfortable saying what they are online that they clearly would not say in life. People will argue against things like having to provide ID for social media (usually those with stuff to hide) but I would 100% advocate it and stop Dave@12347658 and the like the ability to be racist and make baseless accusations online. As soon as Musk and FB Bell3nd cosied up to the idea that anything written online was fair game and free speech the world became a darker place and people like this the poor bloke talked about originally have it FAR tougher as a result.

Humans are unfortunately cnuts in large numbers, if people don't think that requires a level of policing and restriction online then I think those people are being extremely dumb
100% the social media companies need to take responsibility for the sh*t that goes down on there
 
I feel sorry for him. He must have been so badly abused as a child to hate the world so much. I hope he gets all the years of psychiatric treatment he needs

...hopefully that 'treatment' can happen somewhere very dank and uncomfortable, preferrably where the methoid is experimental physical therapy...(sorry, inside voice there)...
 
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