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Available sources show frequent reporting that thousands of people were arrested in the UK for online communications in recent years — with repeated figures of “about 12,000 arrests a year” or “over 3...
The government’s stated reason for postponing a swathe of local polls is administrative: to allow large-scale local government reorganisation and devolution deals to be implemented “to the most ambiti...
Most arrests for social-media posts in the UK in 2023–24 were carried out under a small group of legacy communications and public‑order statutes: Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and the Mal...
Police custody data obtained and reported in major outlets show roughly 12,000 UK arrests in a recent year for online communications described as “offensive” or causing “anxiety”, which equates to “mo...
The Police National Database (PND) has acted as a centralising tool that plausibly accelerates cross-force identification and case-linking for social-media-related complaints, but public reporting and...
Data published by national outlets and individual forces show thousands of UK arrests for offensive online communications in 2023–24 and wide variation across forces: The Daily Mail’s compilation (bas...