Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
And yet who predicted it? The police state comments were always directed at how heavily monitored the British people were, not at how little free speech meant to your government.
Too lazy to Google, but I do recall seeing predictions that they would find a way to criminalize trolling long before it happened. I think that's actually a legitimate goal where 'trolling' is actually outright harassment. What we actually have is a dumb law written and interpreted but people who simply don't understand the technologies or sociology involved, what we've ended up with is laws that criminalize being a dick on the Internet, rather than simply translating exist anti-harassment laws to the online environment.