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I have only recently started with Twitter and already waste far too much of my time on it. With the recent case of two men being found guilty under the fatuous 'extreme' porn law of having 3 unsolicited pics they thought they had erased on their phones, I was thinking how one stands with regard to material in ones Twitter time-line. I follow 'Vice' the news and current affairs organisation and have a tweet from them that links to an article on porn in classical art. On scrolling down the piece I came across a photo of a 1st century Roman statue portraying a satyr fucking a goat in some considerable and clear detail. Would plod with nothing better to do consider a picture, technically on my phone though I might know nothing about it, of something in the extreme area, to be an offence? This was a link from a site I follow, so I presume I could unfollow if I thought there was material I 'shouldn't have' but its an interesting news organisation and I dont want to lose it, but I understand that Twitter now are putting tweets in ones timeline that 'might be of interest' not necessarily from those I follow or who follow me, over which I will have no control. Obviously the vast majority of Tweets wil not be a problem, but as we have seen it only takes a couple of pictures and a copper with nothing better to do and bingo! up in front of the Beak.

Btw, when the legislation was being introduced we were assured that it would only be used in the most extreme circumstances and it was not expected that there would be more than half a dozen prosecutions a year. There have been I believe around 1000 in the past year, mostly for depictions of consensual non violent activity like fisting, not non-consensual violent torture material as was used as an excuse to bring it in by NL.

Simple cure. Don't use it.

andy at handiwork wrote:

> I have only recently started with Twitter and already waste far
> too much of my time on it. With the recent case of two men
> being found guilty under the fatuous 'extreme' porn law of
> having 3 unsolicited pics they thought they had erased on their
> phones, I was thinking how one stands with regard to material
> in ones Twitter time-line. I follow 'Vice' the news and current
> affairs organisation and have a tweet from them that links to
> an article on porn in classical art. On scrolling down the
> piece I came across a photo of a 1st century Roman statue
> portraying a satyr fucking a goat in some considerable and
> clear detail. Would plod with nothing better to do consider a
> picture, technically on my phone though I might know nothing
> about it, of something in the extreme area, to be an offence?
> This was a link from a site I follow, so I presume I could
> unfollow if I thought there was material I 'shouldn't have' but
> its an interesting news organisation and I dont want to lose
> it, but I understand that Twitter now are putting tweets in
> ones timeline that 'might be of interest' not necessarily from
> those I follow or who follow me, over which I will have no
> control. Obviously the vast majority of Tweets wil not be a
> problem, but as we have seen it only takes a couple of pictures
> and a copper with nothing better to do and bingo! up in front
> of the Beak.
>
> Btw, when the legislation was being introduced we were assured
> that it would only be used in the most extreme circumstances
> and it was not expected that there would be more than half a
> dozen prosecutions a year.

And you believed them? When Ripa was introduced we were told it was purely to catch terrorists. What did the cunts at local councils do? Use it to catch people who didn't clean up after their dogs, put their bins out on the wrong day or try to get their kids into a decent school rather than some local shithole for wannabe Borstallites. Any time police, government, traffic wardens etc etc are given more power they always, ALWAYS, ALWAYS abuse it.

Ask yourself why do you tweet? Is anyone really interested in what you tweet? Do you use it to promote a business and have you noticed any difference since you have been tweeting? If not, do what Arginald says and come off.

Most celebrities/organisations do not make their tweets private so if you're interested in what Vice or Elton John or someone else has to say just look at their feed. You don't need a twitter account to do that... and you'll probably find you waste less time.

Take heed...our local Police, City and County Councils and Housing Associations monitor Twitter and Facebook. Freedom of speech and expression is under threat in a way never seen before. Go Orwell.