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     D02 XR20
 ** Possible issues document (captured [2019-08-24 Sat])
-*** Online Harrassment, harmful communications and related offences
+*** Online Harassment, harmful communications and related offences
     *Possible issues for address*
 **** Definition of communication in legislation
      1. There  are  currently  significant  gaps  in legislation  with
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    service that they provide, including ensuring that it is kept
    running and updates are applied appropriately, and so on.
 
-   This submission is primarilty concerned about self-hosting as a
+   This submission is primarily concerned about self-hosting as a
    hobby and self-hosting engaged in by charity, non-governmental or
    community organisations. However, self-hosting for commercial
    purposes is a valid use-case, but implications of regulations on
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       powerful experience.
     - Community -- While some of the global services with household
       names offer features go small businesses and community groups
-      (like footall clubs or debating societies), often the lock-in
+      (like football clubs or debating societies), often the lock-in
       and exclusivity involved can make it hard to include everyone
       who needs to be involved. Hosting your own services allows you
       to set the rules and codes of conduct.
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       software projects can people often learn about the tools and
       systems they use, and grow their knowledge of the technologies
       involved.
-    - Collaboration -- the softwas that implements self-hosted
+    - Collaboration -- the software that implements self-hosted
       services often some under the terms of a Free or Open Source
-      Software copyright licence, which allows for peope to copy and
+      Software copyright licence, which allows for people to copy and
       improve software, and these improvements often find their back
       to the original project for others to benefit.
     - Protection -- Governments in countries where civil rights are
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 ** CONSDONE Content Moderation
 
    Much of the focus on legislative efforts to deal with harmful or
-   objectional material on services that permit uploads from users is
+   objectionable material on services that permit uploads from users is
    on what the service providers do about it. Many argue that they are
    not doing anything, or at least not enough.
 
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    material or not, to suppress someone's freedom of expression or
    not, based on a set of if-then-else questions.
    - It's illegal in Germany to say anything that can be construed as
-     glorifying the Holacaust. In the UK it isn't. Facebook can
+     glorifying the Holocaust. In the UK it isn't. Facebook can
      suppress such information from users it believes are in Germany,
      but to do so for those in the UK would be an illegal denial of
      free expression, regardless of how objectionable the material
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    could only be done by people who support the atrocity, this is not
    necessarily true. Other reasons to share the video or portions of
    it might include
-   - to appeal for help in finding someone caught up in the masssacre
+   - to appeal for help in finding someone caught up in the massacre
    - Legitimate news reporting of such an event.
    - to help investigate the shooting and its
      circumstances[fn:ForArch:Forensic Architecture,
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        * Legislation should focus not on the tool, but on the
          behaviour. In the main, therefore, it's the behaviour of
          those performing the bullying or abuse that should be
-         targetted and not the "tool" used as the communications
+         targeted and not the "tool" used as the communications
          medium. I expand on this in the "User behaviour" section of
          this submission.
    - Question 2 :: What lessons can be learned from models used in
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                  not on the real offender, runs real risks of damaging
                  human rights of totally innocent parties, as well as
                  stifling innovation and consolidating the market
-                 positions of the majar operators
+                 positions of the major operators
 ** CONSDONE Harassment, stalking & other forms of online abuse
    - Question 4 :: Online harassment can take the form of
                    on-consensual taking and distribution of intimate
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                  associated with a personal identity is "fake" needs
                  to be challenged. It is the /behaviour/ of the
                  account than needs to be considered. This is true of
-                 accounts that are associated with indentifiable
+                 accounts that are associated with identifiable
                  individuals as well as of pseudonymous
                  accounts[fn:trolls:A well-known Irish public figure
                  who offers commentary on many aspects of society
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                  elicit angry responses. I describe this person as "A
                  master of the false equivalence". This is the classic
                  online trolling behaviour. Similarly, on the 18th
-                 September 2019, a prominant UK journalist tweeted
+                 September 2019, a prominent UK journalist tweeted
                  personal details of a father who publicly challenged
                  UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson regarding the state
                  of the NHS. This was construed by many as a
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                  It should not be assumed that pseudonymous accounts
                  are created in order for the users to escape legal
                  consequences for criminal communications. There are
-                 many reasons for maintaining a psuedonymous presence
+                 many reasons for maintaining a pseudonymous presence
                  online, some of which I have personally encountered
                  being:
        - To protect against a physically abusive family
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        created for reasons of abuse or harmful communication. In fact,
        there's good reason to assume that the significant majority of
        pseudonymous accounts operate for completely innocent
-       reaons[fn:realnames:facebook excepted. However, facebook's
+       reasons[fn:realnames:facebook excepted. However, facebook's
        real-name policy is itself wrong, and does a great deal of
        damage to people who have good reasons for their names not to
        be associated with their online presences.].