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OT: One Year in Jail for Online Insults

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Japan just updated it's cyberbullying law and now online insults could land a violator in jail for a year. 😲

www.engadget.com

Japan’s amended cyberbullying law makes online insults punishable by one year in prison

Insulting someone online could land an individual in Japan a one-year prison term under an amendment to the country’s penal code enacted on Thursday morning.
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Can you imagine if that law were enacted here? I'd be in for a decade easy just for the insults I hurl at myself, let alone others. The CE board would be a gateway to long prison sentences. 🤣
 
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mildone said:
Japan just updated it's cyberbullying law and now online insults could land a violator in jail for a year. 😲

www.engadget.com

Japan’s amended cyberbullying law makes online insults punishable by one year in prison

Insulting someone online could land an individual in Japan a one-year prison term under an amendment to the country’s penal code enacted on Thursday morning.
www.engadget.com www.engadget.com

Can you imagine if that law were enacted here? I'd be in for a decade easy just for the insults I hurl at myself, let alone others. The CE board would be a gateway to long prison sentences. 🤣
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Unfortunately I wouldn't be the least bit surprised with some of the "woke" insanity here.
 
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mildone said:
I love insults, giving and receiving. My best friends and I spend all our time insulting each other.

Good insults are an art form. If we're going to jail people, it should be for insults that lack originality, creativity and/or humor. 😀
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Oh I completely agree with you!
 
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West Point Knight said:
And it will only be in one direction…just like only one side “incites” violence and only one side is hateful and so on…this will all end very ugly!
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That's what both sides say about each other. Being either liberal or conservative in the 2020s means having a persecution complex a mile wide. 🙂

Come join me in the middle where we're free to insult absolutely everybody all the time without fear of persecution. Nobody ever persecutes me. And nobody could ever reasonably accuse me of being politically correct.
 
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Knight Shift said:
I strive to live by a rule that anything I say to someone online is no different than if we were in person.

I bookmarked the following two tweets today from two people I never heard of. Far too often, we see people getting demonized online, while in real life they may be completely different:

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Good messages, IMO.

Almost nobody is all good or all bad. I can vehemently disagree with someone on certain issues, but I won’t judge them as “bad people“ unless they have an established pattern of intentionally seeking to cause harm to others.
 
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mildone said:
Good messages, IMO.

Almost nobody is all good or all bad. I can vehemently disagree with someone on certain issues, but I won’t judge them as “bad people“ unless they have an established pattern of intentionally seeking to cause harm to others.
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With that said, the law in the OP, while well-intentioned, seems unworkable.
 
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Knight Shift said:
I strive to live by a rule that anything I say to someone online is no different than if we were in person.

I bookmarked the following two tweets today from two people I never heard of. Far too often, we see people getting demonized online, while in real life they may be completely different:

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David French is is trash and a phony
 
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David French is is trash and a phony
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There you go. But does that mean one cannot read something he wrote and take something positive from it, regardless of what you think of him? My takeaways from those tweets (and I truly have no idea who those people are, and I don't care if they are axe murderers for that matter:

1. Sometimes good people say bad things, especially online. That does not make them bad people. This is something much of the younger generation fails to understand. The cancel people seem to want to: reflexively cancel someone for something they posted on social media, demonize the person and ruin their career and life. Unfortunately, this mindset has infected corporations.

2. Just because someone takes a political position or a position on a social issue that others disagree with, this does not make them a bad person. What is more important is how people treat each other in real life, not on anti-social media. Years ago, I explained to my kids when they were adolescents that sometimes good people say or do bad things, but that does not make them bad people. If there is a pattern of bad behavior from a person, then maybe they are bad. But that still does not mean others cannot learn something from what a bad person says (or does). Listening, processing, learning from each other seems lost in today's divided world.
 
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In Japan, that is just a mistranslation. This law is about Cyberbullying not trash talking.

Japan had a big problem with kids committing suicide due to extreme cyberbulling. However, there was no law against it and nothing never happen to the cyberbullies. This new law changes that.
 
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mildone said:
I have no idea who David French is, but that'll be one year behind bars for you, Mr. online insulter person. 🙂
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He was so triggered, he stuttered is is. That is in no way mocking stutterers. It is just an astute observation. Astute? Who farted? And why do some people not like the French? Can we discuss this in a civil manner without name calling?
 
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He was so triggered, he stuttered is is. That is in no way mocking stutterers. It is just an astute observation. Astute? Who farted? And why do some people not like the French? Can we discuss this in a civil manner without name calling?
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I support flatulence. It's always funny no matter how old I get.
 
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Knight Shift said:
He was so triggered, he stuttered is is. That is in no way mocking stutterers. It is just an astute observation. Astute? Who farted? And why do some people not like the French? Can we discuss this in a civil manner without name calling?
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I don't know why people don't like other people. I love everybody. LOL
 
mildone said:
Can you imagine if that law were enacted here? I'd be in for a decade easy just for the insults I hurl at myself, let alone others. The CE board would be a gateway to long prison sentences. 🤣
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The day that happens will forever be known as Independence Day for battered sheep. Not bbbbaaaaaaddd. 😉
 
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