Reporting Online Religious and Racial Hatred in the UK
There is a common belief amongst UK internet users that anything can be posted or said online if the website is hosted abroad.
For instance it is believed that racism, homophobia, threats of violence, incitement to religious hatred etc cannot be acted on by the British Law enforcement agencies or the UK justice system if it is posted on You Tube, Facebook, Twitter etc, because they are American owned companies and thusly come under their “Free Speech Laws”.
Recently a number of convictions in the UK have proven this to be a common myth and a lie.
Material (videos, documents, music etc) posted on any site anywhere in the world by a person in the UK still falls under the “Obscene Publications Act 1959 and 1964” and therefore the person posting it is liable to arrest and prosecution.