JKR exposing Scottish hate crime laws for what they are

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https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1774747068944265615?s=61&t=NHDSDk1MaF98_GOtcuLi0Q

There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis
But he's a liar and I'm not sure about you

Laughing at the handwaving away of the existence of the misogynistic monitors.

Because screenshots from threads on here are never posted on Twitter with an influx of posts by TRA's following swiftly afterwards. Never happens, honestly....

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I'm never sure why the few spend so much time on here moaning about women and reporting. There's over 1.9 thousand comments under the Times article and over 6,000 on the Telegraph - both increasing rapidly.

The game is up. The truth is out there and the public are on the side of women, safeguarding children (and JKR).

There's over 1.9 thousand comments under the Times article and over 6,000 on the Telegraph - both increasing rapidly
All six of us have been incredibly busy today.

Surely MNHQ are twitching about the Scot’s Act since they could also fall foul of it.

over recent years, Willoughby has made innumerable awful posts on twitter about women,
criticising their looks, their appearances, saying they look like men. (usually because they don't perform at being a woman, they just ARE a woman.)
Willloughby takes frequent pops at Sharon Davies, Helen Joyce, among others.
JK has taken so much shit for so
many years and wow, the faux naïveté now that Rowling finally responds.
Unbelievable.

With great power comes great responsibility. Free speech is not all that free anymore, especially on this topic, I imagine they are afraid of getting in hot water for allowing people to air their views, but what do I know i'm not intelligent or powerful, just a middle aged woman, glad that others can put into words what I am not capable of saying myself.

It took me more than 35 years to tell anyone about the relatively “mild” sexual abuse I experienced. What it must be like to experience abuse at the other end of the scale is unimaginable for anyone who hasn’t gone through it.

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four" George Orwell, 1984

Laughing at the handwaving away of the existence of the misogynistic monitors

MNHQ are mysogynistic monitors now?! (Seeing as that's what other posters are insisting is meant by monitors)
Laughing at the insistence that it's MNHQ monitors then along comes a post like this to show no, actually, some think there's a whole mysterious "they" and "all seeing monitors" rather than just people with a different opinion.
It's sooo weird on here sometimes.

Mumsnet don't monitor all threads. They only delete stuff that gets reported. It appears that some of mnhq staff delete more than others. Some staff seen to take the time to check things out and some just delete everything requested.

I've had posts deleted for spurious reasons before now. Sometimes I'll discuss why with mnhq, but most of the time as they don't tell people, most of the time, when a post has been deleted I can't even remember what was written on it.

I've had a post deleted before now because i said a member of parliament looked like he was in rock band that played out of his parents garage!

Hell I've just had a gif of three dancing potatoes deleted!

And yes some threads get monitored and reported so many times by people who don't like what we say that they end up with a member of mnhq watching the thread in real time.

that's Scottish law, right? Not applicable in the UK? Or is it? Confused.

That's such a good reply from Boiled that I won't even bother formulating a reply!

Ahem. Scotland still in the U.K., we didn't win the independence vote!

Yep. People who have said nothing on this topic so far are speaking up today. The genie is out of the bottle.

The law overreaches so if a publication is read in Scotland it is classed as a crime in Scotland so the Scottish police can ask that the English police wherever Justine lives go arrest her on their behalf. How it will work in reality is uknown.

Under Scottish law every time something on the internet is read in Scotland it is published in Scotland, and therefore can fall under the new hate crime thingy!!

Fever pitch.

I guess this day is not the longed for new dawn that some had hoped for. Spring sunshine has a habit of throwing light onto all of the grubby corners and the full extent of the shabbiness goes on show for all to see.

This .gif? It's cute.

I've been in a Toby Carvery all day and I've not read the thread. Well, the first few posts and the last few.

Is it something to do with Andrew Tate?

*KimMumsnet · Today 19:08
Good evening, all.

Please can you refrain from getting personal when posting? We're getting a lot of reports about this thread and if it is too badly derailed we will need to remove it.

Thank you.*

Transphobic, now this phrase does annoy me, I mean arachnophobic (sp?) yes I'm that because I have an irrational phobia of spiders - I actually shake and feel sick at the sight of one.
Transphobic, no, I just disagree with your views on what a woman is besides other things.
I will possibly swat and squash a spider, (sorry), but a transgender? they have nothing to fear from me except my not conforming to their view. Is that hate speech or actually a hate crime against women?
I think we all know the answer...

💐 I'm sorry that you're another survivor of sexual abuse. There are so many of us.

Am a bit surprised about the fact that the tories have not used s35 powers to stop this law in respect of overreach and having UK wide implications, considering they did block self ID

JKR's latest tweet -

x.com/jk_rowling/status/1774867571080122858?s=20

The gall of the random man!