Online abuse is not on a par with being attacked in the street
by Damian Thompson, Mailonline:
An article in yesterday’s Guardian called for a surge in prosecutions against anyone suspected of committing ‘hate crime’ on social media.
The author wants to see online abuse taken as seriously as assault or daubing vile graffiti on people’s houses.
‘Hate is hate,’ she tells us. And, reaching for another cliche, ‘victims should not be left to suffer in silence.’
She makes no distinction between proven hate crimes — that is, those that result in an actual conviction — and complaints about ‘hate crimes’, which may be justified, but are just as likely to be paranoid, malicious or frivolous.
You may shrug and say: what do you expect from The Guardian? But here’s the scary bit. The author is Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), the most senior public prosecutor in England and Wales.
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