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432 sats \ 14 comments \ @siggy47 7h Politics_And_Law

A damning study complete with an interactive map has revealed that UK police arrested nearly 10,000 people in 2024 for “grossly offensive” social media posts—equivalent to 30 arrests every single day—while knife crime, burglary, and sexual offences go unsolved.

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47 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4h

Truly disgusting. And if you look at the effects, it doesn't seem like tensions in the UK are simmering down. That's the only argument for speech policing--to reduce social tensions--and it doesn't even work.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @teemupleb 1h

Speech policing will increase social tensions and then most people will be begging for even more surveillance and Palantir shares will shoot up..

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 23m

It’s to suppress anti immigration sentiment. Anti immigration means Islam phobia which is not a real phobia. Meanwhile violent immigrants can commit crimes with impunity

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @rootmachine 4h

So, slowly slowly the freedom of speech flies away...

41 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 7h

the study

There's an odd thing in there

39/45 Police Forces, via Freedom of Information (FOI) request • Number of arrests made under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988. The City of London Police Force was removed because it has a uniquely low resident population, which drastically inflates its arrest rate

Why would you remove data?!

116 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 7h

The City Of London is such a weird place. It's geographically tiny, but its residents probably have the highest net worth in the world. Everything about that city within a city is secretive.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 7h

Just merge the data. Gerrymandering is accepted lol

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 15m

Millionaires are leaving England

36 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby 7h

This is pretty awful. It's interesting to see numbers attached to all the anecdotes I've been hearing:

Together, the 39 of 45 police forces that replied to the Mail's freedom of information (FOI) requests arrested around 9,700 people last year under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988.

However, the total arrest figures are likely to be higher, as six forces failed to respond to FOI requests or provided inadequate data, including Police Scotland, the second-largest force in the UK.

You have to wonder about the people enforcing these rules on the ground. I want to say that I would feel outraged to be told to go arrest some sod who said something mean on Twitter. At the same time, Covid and society in general lately have made me feel that it is far easier to slip into unreasonable attitudes than I had previously expected.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @teemupleb 1h

We saw during Covid how weak men were empowered to execute rules that didn’t make sense

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 13m

At least homicides are at a 20 year low

They are targeting posts critical of immigration

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 7h

On this picture the croatian prime minister, about ten days ago, sits two chairs from a croatian guy that said a few "dangerous" things on facebook, in a courtroom aired on tv. The poor guy waited two months in jail for an express conviction, because the prime minister, in his private person, felt threatened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3ym_3Yv8x0