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Yes: multiple recent reports and parliamentary records show thousands of arrests in the UK for online communications described as “offensive” or otherwise criminal under communications laws, with repo...
UK police have increasingly arrested people over social-media posts, with reporting that forces made “more than 30 arrests a day” (over 12,000 a year in 2023) for offensive online communications cited...
Arrests in the UK for social‑media posts have become a notable and contested trend: parliamentary and media reporting cite figures like “more than 30 arrests a day” (over 12,000 a year in 2023) while ...
A Swiss wind‑instrument repairman, Emanuel Brünisholz, was convicted in a Bern regional court for a Facebook comment saying “you’ll only find men and women based on their skeletons,” fined 500 CHF and...
Recent reporting and parliamentary records show a marked uptick in arrests in Europe for online speech, especially in the United Kingdom where custody data and parliamentary debate cite roughly 12,000...
Individuals in England can be arrested for online speech that is offensive even when it is not explicitly threatening, and recent high-profile arrests have triggered a national debate about the balanc...
Graham Linehan was arrested at Heathrow in September 2025 on suspicion of inciting violence over a set of X posts that included the line, “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is c...
Yes — police in the UK are arresting people over social media activity, and recent reporting and parliamentary records show thousands of such arrests a year, but the raw numbers do not by themselves p...
The claim that "England imprisons a man for posting on social media that he doesn't want his tax dollars prioritizing immigrants" is not supported by the supplied materials. The reporting instead docu...
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...