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The Malicious Communications Act and its role in online communications policing, including arrests and convictions.
The claim that roughly 12,500 people were arrested in the UK for social‑media posts is grounded in Freedom of Information data reported by The Times and summarized by watchdogs: The Times’ FOI returne...
Available reporting does not provide a single, authoritative national tally of charges and convictions specifically under the (OSA); instead, public records and legal commentary identify a small numbe...
The Communications Act 2003 is the principal UK statute prosecutors have used to target offensive online messages: Section 127 makes it an offence to send a message that is “grossly offensive” or “men...