NY - State Police to now monitor and track speech online

[Anti Federalist]

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Announces Police Unit to Combat ‘Hate Speech’

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...t-hate-speech/

HANNAH BLEAU 19 May 2022

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Wednesday announced plans to create a police unit designed to, in part, combat “hate speech” in the wake of the tragic shooting in Buffalo, promising to “confront this epidemic head-on.”

“We’re proposing a comprehensive plan to combat domestic terrorism, strengthen state gun laws, & investigate social media platforms promoting violent extremism,” Hochul announced Wednesday.

“In wake of the racist act of terror in Buffalo, New York will lead the charge to confront this epidemic head-on,” she added:

One of the governor’s executive orders instructs the State Police to establish a “dedicated unit within the New York State Intelligence Center (NYSIC) to track domestic extremism and increase social media monitoring at the Intelligence Center.”

“The unit will be responsible for developing investigative leads based on social media analyses focused on radical extremist activities motivated threats by identifying online locations and activities that facilitate radicalization and promote violent extremism,” it reads in part.

The issue, however, is the debate over what individuals consider “hate speech,” triggering fears of a slippery slope, given the fact that some radical leftist activists, for example, consider “misgendering” someone as a fundamentally hateful act.

“The horrific and despicable act of terror committed by a white supremacist this past weekend in Buffalo showed that we as a country are facing an intersection of two crises: the mainstreaming of hate speech — including white nationalism, racism and white supremacy — and the easy access to military-style weapons and magazines,” Hochul said in a statement.

“This is a wake-up call and here in New York we are taking strong steps to directly address this deadly threat,” she continued:

Today, I issued Executive Orders to devote substantial resources and focus toward combating the troubling surge in domestic terrorism by identifying radicalized individuals and tracking their threats amplified on social media, and further empower State Police to keep guns away from dangerous people. I am also issuing a referral letter to the Attorney General to investigate social media’s role in the Buffalo shooting, and am calling for the passage of several pieces of legislation that will help law enforcement get more guns off the street.

“We will continue to confront this epidemic head-on, stamp out extremists who threaten our communities, strengthen the toughest gun laws in the country and do whatever it takes to keep New Yorkers safe,” the Democrat governor added.

Speaking with Breitbart News Daily on Wednesday, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) called the Buffalo shooting “an act of pure evil” and blasted the establishment media, calling it “shameful that the media is taking this tragedy to try to score political points.”

“This was filth and heinous. … But the fact that now mainstream media is accusing Republicans who support border security and support and oppose amnesty for illegals as somehow leading to this. It’s outrageous, It’s disgraceful. It’s dangerous,” she said.

“The American people see through this and it’s a disgrace on the media and frankly, it’s disgraceful for the people of Buffalo to see the media take advantage politically of this horrific tragedy,” she said. “This criminal should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and New York State should consider reinstating the death penalty.”

[Anti Globalist]

There's no such thing as hate speech. When is this dumb $#@! going to realize that?

[kahless]

Defund the police. The police are so corrupt here they are like an organized crime syndicate.

Of course defunding is unpopular with Conservatives since they have this delusional mythical belief that police actually stop crime before it happens. People go nuts here wanting more police to stop crime as if that is even a thing that would work. It is like they want one cop for every person alive since there is no way to stop all crime otherwise. There is no thought process that individuals can defend themselves given the ability to do so as well as having competing private security agencies hired and paid to defend their business, homes and neighborhoods.

They would rather lick the boot of the organized crime syndicate instead and thank them for that disservice.

[Occam's Banana]

Good. Our nation's ideological self-segregation is proceeding apace.

If New York wants to turn itself into an Orwellian hell-hole (complete with actual, literal "thought police"), then so be it. Either there will be enough people in New York who will recognize the danger of all this vicious nonsense and will be impelled to do something about it by whatever means, or there won't be (in which case, New York will get what it deserves).

I'm also hoping that they will indeed "strengthen the toughest gun laws in the country" by making those laws even more draconian than they already are - intolerably draconian, even. Then I hope they are taken to court, the case goes to SCOTUS, SCOTUS rules against them, and they say;, "well, $#@! you, then - we're just gonna enforce them anyway" (and again, if enough New Yorkers don't feel impelled to do anything about this, then they'll get what they deserve). Maybe then, other saner states will start adopting and applying the idea of non-compliance with federal edicts. (Nullification doesn't have to happen only over things "our side" agrees with, after all.) Let's get this party started ...

United Divided we stand, divided united we fall.[1]

Join Separate or die.



[1] Let's not give these latter-day, wannabe Caligulas the "one neck" they have always wanted.

[CaptUSA]

There's no such thing as hate speech. When is this dumb $#@! going to realize that?

Reported.

[Mach]

It's always the same old story, as soon as they start something new up and can't find no business, they create it themselves to justify more funding.