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“Supporters of the authoritarian law say it helps ‘measure tensions effectively and to prevent serious hostility and violence.’ They also argue that recording these incidents is the first step towards tackling the escalating process of ‘dehumanization and ultimately murder’… These non-crime hate incidents logs remain on someone’s records for six years, often in secret… And since they are technically not crimes, an ‘offender’ does not have legal ground to appeal. The law’s guidelines were recently updated to include even lower barriers to entry such as ‘ill-will, spite, contempt, prejudice, unfriendliness, antagonism, resentment, and dislike,’ as hate incidents.” – Dan Frieth, “The UK’s chilling ‘non-crime hate incident’ law is as bad as it sounds and completely useless” – Reclaim The Net, February 15th, 2021.
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