Scottish police find JKR home address photo 'not criminal'

[ArabellaScott]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-60023868

Not fussed about people sharing women's addresses publically. There's a surprise.

@MargaritaPie and @CorrBlimeyGG just to clarify, you think it's OK to publicise someone you disagree with's address, in this way. You believe it to be OK and fine. And not incitement or harassment.

It's probably because her address is already in the public domain

The comments on Facebook are depressing

Serves her right for denying trans people exist

Her essay was so bigoted it was unbelievable

Why should anyone care she is evil terf

Why are we giving her air time

Ad nauseum

[quote MargaritaPie]"Information about where JK Rowling lives is publicly available online. In November, when the protest occurred, a popular Edinburgh tourist website carried a picture of her 17th century home and listed her address"

www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/17/jk-rowling-trans-protest-scotland-police/[/quote]
And it no longer carries her address. Probably because someone told them that flagging up a private home was not ethical.

You and Pink News are desperately reaching for justification!

Surely no one is going to try to use Pink News as a credible source!

I hope the police publish a justification because otherwise it looks like it's open season for anyone to publish the name and address of anyone, really, with an accompanying political slogan in the photograph.

Anyone with a website. Anyone with a twitter profile. Anyone on Insta. Anyone who performs on stage. They'll all be fair game, will they?

It's a two-edged sword.

It doesn't seem as though their policy around doorstep crime and stalking extends to women who speak the truth.
It's obviously fine for activists to share the personal details of women with wrong think online and cause fear by sharing photos of themselves standing outside said womens home. Which gets shared over and over again. Nothing to see here. Despite the fact JK has had enough physical / death / rape threats to wallpaper her house.
Shame when police Scotland were asking for her help in using her platform to combat doorstep crime back in 2015, they didn't think to consider that it may be somewhat discriminatory of them to refuse her the same access to support /protection / justice from the same police 6 years later.

@CorrBlimeyGG

Pictures of her home are readily available online. Yet for some reason she objected to this one. Why would that be?

Because they were clearly trying to incite harassment against her? If they weren't, why would they pose right next to her address on their little 'protest'?

I also dont get how this wasn't a crime, but apparently a woman posting a photo of a ribbon in the suffragette colours tied to a fence near someone's publicised place of work is worthy of arrest.

It's almost as if.........

Because they were clearly trying to incite harassment against her? If they weren't, why would they pose right next to her address on their little 'protest'?

Yes. If many of her online stalkers hadn't considered targeting her home address they will now. Especially now these ones have got away with their incitement to harass and intimidate.

@AbandonedCharacter

Surely no one is going to try to use Pink News as a credible source!

Is the Daily Mail any better?

www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jan/23/dont-trust-daily-mail-website-microsoft-browser-warns-users

Don't trust the daily mail, says the guardian?

Alrighty.

😂

@FrankBurnside

Don't trust the daily mail, says the guardian?

Alrighty.

😂

Don't trust The Guardian, says The Intercept.

theintercept.com/2016/12/29/the-guardians-summary-of-julian-assanges-interview-went-viral-and-was-completely-false/

@FrankBurnside

Don't trust the daily mail, says the guardian?

Alrighty.

😂

Technically it's Microsoft who are judging the DM to not be credible, as the article explains.

Well thanks for your advice Margarita. I'll be sure to ignore it. As you're someone who thinks pink news is a credible resource there's not really a lot more to say. 😉

I feel very sad @MargaritaPie ignored my question. I suppose it's easier to skate others' position than to state your own.

I don't think the photos gave away anything that wasn't already easily available to the public. It's very, very easy to find the address without going anywhere near a TRA.

@DaisyWaldron

I don't think the photos gave away anything that wasn't already easily available to the public. It's very, very easy to find the address without going anywhere near a TRA.

It alerted people that had already been stalking her to this fact, which they may not have considered before. It is likely there will be more trouble at her home now, no thanks to the actions of these activists.

@DaisyWaldron

I don't think the photos gave away anything that wasn't already easily available to the public. It's very, very easy to find the address without going anywhere near a TRA.

You missed the accompanying Twitterfest. Not surprising as they all took their Twitter down very quickly.

They were acting in a malicious manner, openly so, gloatingly so.

For some reason a woman with a picture of a ribbon on an unidentifiable fence is held to be dangerous and taken to court whereas 3 TRAs, sorry 4 with the photographer, with a twitterfeed full of nasty and pictures including a street address is just freedom of speech.

Double standards abound.

It’s a pretty safe bet that the kind of person who endorses the actions of the “activists” here comes to us in a direct lineage from the sort of people who really used to enjoy a good witch ducking back in the day.

Cowardly authoritarian misogynists, in other words. Great personal qualities to have - you must be dead proud.

A reminder that because an actor said that he thought that a photograph of ribbons allegedly in the vicinity of his place of work were a threat, a woman got arrested, charged, dragged through court and nearly lost her home. (Charges dropped in the end, of course.)

But a woman who said that she thought a photograph of four people holding political protest signs standing directly outside her home with address clearly visible met with this response.

Clearly some people think that there are two classes of people in this country. Those who deserve to be protected by the police, and those who deserve to be threatened, abused, scared and humiliated, and to have their family similarly threatened, abused, scared and humiliated.

Can anyone tell me what the difference is between the first kind and the second kind?

I have a feeling that you’ll be in for one of your famous Very Long Waits there, arabella…

Well, you know, first outing for the folding chair in 2022, Soph. Hope springs eternal.