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    Squadra di polizia d’élite per monitorare i posti anti-migranti sui social media

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    1. denyer-no1-fan on

      /r/ukpolitics is about to get 10x more traffic from police stations across the UK

    2. Spamgrenade on

      Oh noes the police are gathering intelligence on possible violent protests, from all sources. I wonder why the right wing feel particularly concerned and victimised over this?

      Congrats to the Torygraph for the picture of riot police shouting down a megaphone to make this article extra scary.

    3. LSL3587 on

      The letter from the Policing Minister that this article is reporting on is here – [https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/48961/documents/257105/default/](https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/48961/documents/257105/default/)

      It is interesting that the Minister also highlights the Online Safety Act – it does suggest that they hope some access to things considered ‘hate’ or ‘abuse’ will be behind ‘adults only’ barrier – which most people even if adults wouldn’t bother with. Perhaps also that censorship will be quicker. (my bold in the below quote)

      *This team will provide a national capability to monitor social media intelligence and advise on its use to inform local operational decision making. This will be a dedicated function at a national level for exploiting internet intelligence to help local forces manage public safety threats and risks.*

      *Whilst not directly relevant to the issues raised in your letter, I also thought it might be helpful to mention the implementation of the Online Safety Act.* ***As you will know, that is a key plank to the government’s efforts to ensure the online world is safer for the public to use.*** *The Online Safety Act requires platforms to remove illegal content. These duties were not in effect last summer, but came into force in March.* ***In addition, platforms will also have to protect children from encountering harmful content, including hate and abuse online when those provisions come into force later this month.***

      *The major social media platforms have specific channels for reporting activity to law enforcement agencies and we will support forces to ensure they are taking effective action on those reports as appropriate.*

    4. DukePPUk on

      So… this is about the Home Office setting up a “National Internet Intelligence Investigations team as part of the National Police Coordination Centre (NPoCC)” according to the letter this is based on.

      > This team will provide a national capability to monitor social media intelligence and advise on its use to inform local operational decision making. This will be a dedicated function at a national level for exploiting internet intelligence to help local forces manage public safety threats and risks.

      This would be a national police team that will track intelligence gathered by various individual forces, and use it to advise local police forces on how to respond to “public safety threats and risks.” Which sounds like a fairly good idea if there are bad actors moving between different police regions.

      I like how the Telegraph decided that “public safety threats” means “anti-migrant posts” – nice of them to acknowledge that the anti-migrant sentiment they are happy to stoke is a threat to public safety.

    5. ConfusedQuarks on

      Not enough funding to protect people from real crimes. But online surveillance of people? There is always money available for that I guess 

    6. CarlLlamaface on

      Police unit to do police work, excellent journalism as always by the oligarch-run rag.

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