Do Mumsnet have to report intent to break the law

[LovelyLovelyMe]

If a poster openly declares an intent to break the law, are Mumsnet under an obligation to forward their details to the police?

Would you like a Covid Marshall application form @LovelyLovelyMe ?

'I'm not talking about the police, I'm saying would/should MN let a thread asking if committing burglary stand?'

Loads of threads by parents worried about their children's behaviour, possible crimes, partners drug use etc.

Of all the criminal activity discussed on MN, this seems like the lower end of the scale.

OP there are plenty of fairly open boards on the net where men discuss abusing women, rape, CSA etc. Are you posting the same sort of thing on those boards?

I would put money on no.

For everyone saying the OP must be winding people up and cannot be serious, I genuinely believe the OP is serious. Many people believe the 'law is absolute' and rules must always be followed, no matter how ridiculous those rules are. That's how governments control civil liberties like who you can see and where you can go on a mass scale; encouraging these people to report their neighbours, therefore creating fear.

Was it you @LovelyLovelyMe who tipped the press off since it's in all the papers? 😂😂😂🚓👮‍♂️🚓👮‍♂️

@GalaxyCookieCrumble

Was it you *@LovelyLovelyMe* who tipped the press off since it's in all the papers? 😂😂😂🚓👮‍♂️🚓👮‍♂️

I read this today in the papers too

This is interesting. People seem to fall into camps of "apply common sense" or "the law is absolute."

But laws are not always good for us. Laws are not always sensible. And laws are not always right. Add to that the very public law breaking our own lawmakers are doing with regards to Brexit and Barnard castle.

Without civil disobedience, many laws which we today consider abhorrent wouldn't have been changed

Given this law has got loads of Tory MPs really angry it's not clear cut at all.

Reading the news earlier it dawned on me that they have effectively outlawed demonstrations, which is pretty scary.

Leaving aside the more serious parts of this, I love that the OP thinks we are track-downable from our MN registration or IP address.

HMRC said that too, once, when introducing a law around EU VAT - and it was only when thousands of very tiny businesses explained patiently that IP address is not a valid or absolute way to determine where someone is located, and anyway it's very easy to fake or override, that they eventually backed down.

Wait, OP - was that you?!

@ivfbeenbusy

I do think MN HQ should post on threads where people are advocating breaking rules/laws that MN policy is that it doesn't condone/support law breaking

MN HQ is very quick to jump in and remove posts/ ban posters for what I've seen are relatively minor things where discussions get heated simply because someone has expressed an unpopular opinion and yet it stays silent when people are advocating what is criminal behaviour (like it or not that is what breaking the law is)

The thread which I think prompted this OP (someone saying they were going to break the law and lots of people encouraging them to do so) has now been deleted.