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In what is a landmark decision, the UK has given a 20-month prison sentence to Jordan Parlour for Facebook posts that were deemed ‘hateful.’ Parlour is the first person to be sentenced for stirring up racial hatred on the social media platform. The sentence is in relation to the continued riots taking place throughout the country. Parlour was arrested for urging rioters to target a building in his home city of Leeds. The target of his posts was housing asylum seekers, resulting in the sentence Tuesday. JUST IN: United Kingdom sentences man to 20 months in prison for Facebook posts that the government deemed "hateful." pic.twitter.com/By1yuWeQM5 — BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) August 13, 2024 Also Read: European Union Demands Elon Musk Censor Donald Trump UK Man is Sentenced to Prison for Facebook Posts Deemed ‘Hateful’ The digital age has consistently struggled with the ideas of censorship and free speech. In 2024, those issues remain at the forefront. Amid Elon...

UK Reform Party leader Nigel Farage once described one of the party’s volunteers who is also a convicted fraudster and the alleged owner of an illegal crypto ATM, as being ‘like a son to me.’   According to the Byline Times, Farage made the comment about financier George Cottrell in 2020. Cottrell, also known as ‘Posh George,’ was caught in an FBI sting operation agreeing to launder £120,000 per month in drug funds. He allegedly threatened to report the fake drug traffickers to the police in an attempt to blackmail them out of 130 bitcoins, then worth $80,000.    Cottrell also faced allegations of owning an illegal crypto ATM machine at a private members club and casino in Montenegro. However, he denies having any financial ties to the casino and company records state a ​​Malaysian accountant from London owns the property.  He was subsequently sentenced to eight months on one count of wire fraud in 2017 and was issued another 20 charges including blackmail that were dropped ...

An increasing number of young adults from the UK are undergoing Gambling addiction therapy after becoming hooked on trading crypto , the UK ’s National Health Service (NHS) has warned. Speaking at the NHS ConfedExpo on Wednesday, NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard stated that opportunities to become addicted to Gambling are rising and that the methods used to keep people hooked are becoming “ever-more sophisticated.”  The National Problem Gambling Clinic told Pritchard that gambling in ‘unregulated cryptocurrency markets’ in the UK is becoming increasingly addictive for young people. Indeed, much of the current memecoin hype in crypto can be compared to gambling, with traders betting that coins will either skyrocket or plummet over the course of a week or in as little as five minutes.  Pritchard said, “As a society, we need to ask: are we OK to just continue picking up the pieces .” She added, “The NHS opened the 15th specialist center for gambling addiction...

The second week of the Crypto Open Patent Alliance ( COPA ) v. Craig Wright trial continued on Thursday and saw witnesses Mike Hearn, Howard Hinnant, and Zooko Wilcox take the stand to answer cross-examination questions.  This UK High Court of Justice lawsuit will resolve the question of whether Craig Wright owns the copyright to Bitcoin’s whitepaper. COPA is suing Wright seeking a court-ordered injunction preventing Wright from asserting authorship claims. On this particular day of this high-stakes trial, the most important event happened outside the courtroom. As newly-introduced evidence, Blockstream CEO Adam Back, and early Bitcoin developer Martti Malmi published some of their never-before-seen emails with Satoshi Nakamoto on public servers. As the world reads through over 260 of these newly published emails, enjoy this example excerpt in the verbatim words of Satoshi: Historically, people have taken up scarce commodities as money, if necessary taking up whatever is at...

UK police have returned £8 million ($10 million) in bitcoin to a trader who was scammed six years ago, by a group that exploited a glitch in a crypto exchange to steal at least £22 million ($28 million) from users. On Saturday, the Lancashire Fraud and Cyber Crime unit reported it return ed the £8 million to the victim last week. Their funds were taken by a gang of Blackpool-based Crypto scammers that were sentenced earlier this year. The group reportedly stole untold millions from victims of the Australian crypto exchange CoinSpot in late 2017. Authorities say the gang used someone in Dubai to convert the stolen crypto into cash before the group laundered it through foreign online accounts. The gang struggled to spend all the money themselves and reportedly handed out £5,000 ($6,000) gift cards to strangers and bought cars for “people they met in the pub.” Delighted to report that earlier this week the Fraud and Cyber Teams worked together to return £8,000,000 of stolen bitc...

Sam Altman’s dystopian eyeball-scanning Crypto project Worldcoin may be about to be probed by data regulators in the UK , following its global launch on Monday. The Information Commissioner’s Office told Reuters on Tuesday: “We note the launch of Worldcoin in the UK and will be making further enquiries.” The UK office is responsible for upholding information rights and data privacy. Worldcoin consists of a series of orb stations (ball-shaped cameras) that will take images of your iris in a bid to “distinguish humans from AI online” while “keeping your personal information private,” the firm claims. In exchange for scanning your biometric data, you receive Worldcoin’s own brand of identification — called a ‘WorldID’ — and its native cryptocurrency for free.  Crypto exchanges like Binance, Huobi, and OKX have listed WorldCoin (WLD). WLD hit a high of $3.30 when it went live on Monday. It has fallen more than 35% to $2.10 ...

A UK -based security analyst who attempted to blackmail the bio lab where he worked out of £300,000 ($390,000) has been sentenced to almost four years in prison.  Twenty-seven-year-old Ashley Liles pleaded guilty in May to blackmail and the unauthorized modification of computer material following an attack on Hertfordshire-based gene therapy firm Oxford Biomedica in February 2018. Liles was part of the team charged with investigating the data breach. However, instead of trying to track down the real culprit, Liles attempted to turn the attack to his own advantage by switching the original blackmail email and changing the payment address. According to Oxford Biomedica’s CEO, Liles’ actions caused “ reputational damage and outside costs of £245,000 .” London teens jailed for stealing $150K crypto in mugging spree Read more: Disbarred lawyer hid crypto, must pay $240M for student loan scam Would-be blackmailer swapped bitcoin wallets According to prosecutors, ...