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In an apparent effort to create a “zero tolerance” approach to hate speech, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is reported to be planning on reversing restrictions from her predecessors to bring back the mass recording by police of the Orwellian non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs), The Telegraph reported. The recording of such incidents by police was restricted by former Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman to instances in which they were “clearly motivated by intentional hostility” and risked “causing significant harm or a criminal offence”. While, as the Newspeak-style name implies, they don’t actually rise to the level of an actual crime, non-crime hate incidents logged by police can have serious implications for those caught up in the dragnet, as a police record is created which can be accessed by some employers through background checks. Additionally, many are never even notified that their name has such a record attached by police. According to The Telegraph, the new left-wing government is considering encouraging blanket recording of the incidents in a push against a supposed rise in “Islamophobia” and antisemitism in the UK.

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