Inciting racial hatred is against the law. Whether online or in the streets.
Calling you idiots knobheads is not, which is why I can see Mark's frustration.
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>>Yet adverse comments about the perpetrators could be taken as "likely to incite religious or racial intolerance"???
Only where one falsely proposes that the activities are typical of a race/religion, and are thus being discriminatory, or where the sole point of your message is to highlight the race involved.
A thread titled - "Pakistani men are at it again" with reference to child grooming and sex offences is racist in my view.
A thread titled - "What social/cultural factors enable some groups in society to become child abusers?" is markedly less so, as it encourages discussion, debate and reasoned comment - if someone was to say in the thread "It's normal for Pakistani men to want to abuse children" (or similar inflammatory rhetoric) then that would again fall foul of the racism card unless they had some serious evidence to back up their claim, capable of standing up in court if they were prosecuted for the statement.
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