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British organisation that advocates against cancel culture
Available reporting from media outlets and aggregators shows a range of estimates for arrests in the UK tied to online speech in 2024: major compilations reported roughly 9,700 arrests based on data f...
Available sources do not provide a single, authoritative count of how many people were jailed in the UK in 2024 specifically for internet or social‑media posts. Reporting and public datasets instead g...
The original post bundles two claims: that Britain “gave up their firearms in 1997” and that “less than 30 years later” people are being arrested for Facebook posts. The first claim is grounded in the...
Available reporting from The Times and summaries by organisations and commentators put the number of arrests in England/Wales for online communications offences at about 12,183 in 2023 — roughly 30–33...
You do have a legal right to freedom of expression in New Zealand: Section 14 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 states “everyone has the right to freedom of expression” including seeking, rec...
Recent high-profile UK prosecutions for online hate speech and related online offences cited in the available reporting include convictions and sentences linked to post-riot misinformation, deliberate...
The arrests for social-media posts in the UK in 2024 were driven overwhelmingly by a trio of communications and public‑order offences — section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, section 1 of the Mal...
Police custody data obtained and analysed by The Times and cited across parliamentary and civil-liberties reporting indicate roughly 12,000 arrests a year in recent years for communications or “online...
UK reporting and parliamentary records say police made “more than 30 arrests a day” in recent years for offensive online messages, which The Times and government debate translate to roughly 12,000 arr...
UK police do not record “arrests for social media posts” as a distinct national category; forces record offences by legal offence types or Reason for Arrest (RFA) codes such as malicious communication...
UK police activity in 2024 included widespread arrests for online speech, with reporting noting thousands of detentions and over 30 arrests a day in some analyses (Daily Mail-based totals cited at ~9,...
Available reporting identifies roughly 12,000 arrests in the UK in 2023 for offences recorded under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 — ...
In 2024 the available reporting shows large numbers of arrests for online communications offences but provides only scattered, case-based evidence about who was imprisoned; official datasets are incom...
Arrests directly attributable to "chat control" or chat-scanning policies in the UK are not clearly enumerated in public data, and existing reporting links broader increases in online-communications a...
The best available reporting shows UK police made over 12,000 arrests in 2023 for communications offences such as offences under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicio...
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...
In 2024 hundreds-to-thousands of people in England and Wales were arrested for online communications judged “offensive,” “threatening” or otherwise unlawful under laws such as section 1 of the Malicio...
The central claims are that London’s Metropolitan Police will stop investigating “non‑crime hate incidents” after the dropped prosecution of Graham Linehan, and that UK law — notably the Online Safety...