They can fine it a trillion if they want, it’s meaningless. They’ll never be able to collect it, the site and its operators aren’t based here.
existentialgoof on
As usual, the people who made the deliberate choice to access that forum and sought out the information are being treated as though they had no agency at all and were passively “killed”, in order to justify extending the reach of the nanny state into people’s private lives and transactions.
Our society infantilises the suicidal in this way by lumping all of them into this monolithic group of “vulnerable” people who can’t think for themselves or make their own decisions (despite the fact that suicide has been a contentious subject in philosophy since forever) and threatens them with being detained indefinitely under the mental health act in order to “help” them, and then everyone is surprised when this drives them into echo chambers online, which are the only places that they won’t be patronised and invalidated.
CareerLow1034 on
18mil fine???? Its always about money……. just shut the cunt down! Its the blind leading the blind.
CandleAffectionate25 on
What’s the point in fining them an unrealistic sum of money? They need to restrain them and serious psychiatric help.
evilplansandstuff on
Ofcom seem to think they’re the world police lately.
UnfortunateWah on
And yet at the same time the Assisted Dying bill is in the House of Lords.
I have unwavering empathy for people who reach a stage in their life where they feel ending it is the best thing they can do, but it is inconsistent to threaten fines against a website for telling people how best to end it when at the same time we are looking to introduce a bill that will allow people the agency to end their life if they choose.
We either decide those who wish to end their life are either making a deliberate choice and have agency over their actions, or we decide they are vulnerable people incapable of making their own decisions and then we detain and treat them under mental health acts.
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They can fine it a trillion if they want, it’s meaningless. They’ll never be able to collect it, the site and its operators aren’t based here.
As usual, the people who made the deliberate choice to access that forum and sought out the information are being treated as though they had no agency at all and were passively “killed”, in order to justify extending the reach of the nanny state into people’s private lives and transactions.
Our society infantilises the suicidal in this way by lumping all of them into this monolithic group of “vulnerable” people who can’t think for themselves or make their own decisions (despite the fact that suicide has been a contentious subject in philosophy since forever) and threatens them with being detained indefinitely under the mental health act in order to “help” them, and then everyone is surprised when this drives them into echo chambers online, which are the only places that they won’t be patronised and invalidated.
18mil fine???? Its always about money……. just shut the cunt down! Its the blind leading the blind.
What’s the point in fining them an unrealistic sum of money? They need to restrain them and serious psychiatric help.
Ofcom seem to think they’re the world police lately.
And yet at the same time the Assisted Dying bill is in the House of Lords.
I have unwavering empathy for people who reach a stage in their life where they feel ending it is the best thing they can do, but it is inconsistent to threaten fines against a website for telling people how best to end it when at the same time we are looking to introduce a bill that will allow people the agency to end their life if they choose.
We either decide those who wish to end their life are either making a deliberate choice and have agency over their actions, or we decide they are vulnerable people incapable of making their own decisions and then we detain and treat them under mental health acts.