Comment on UK cyber vigilantes generating mock IDs of local MPs to protest Online Safety Act

• OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Depends.

  You can argue that it’s basically art/political speech. You’ve done it to draw attention to flaws in the approach and to highlight how ineffectual the current system is, and that if you actually wanted to do make fake IDs you’d take a much less high-profile approach. As such, there’s no actual criminal intent required.

  Don’t know if a judge would buy it though.

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  • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Civil disobedience is done with full knowledge you are breaking the law.

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  • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Especially a UK one.

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, I think the creator of this is playing with fire personally.

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• Grimtuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think it would fall under forgery which is definitely illegal and doesn’t require you to use the ID.

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