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Amendments to section 127 and the Online Safety Act 2023 have narrowed some offences
A cluster of recent UK prosecutions — notably the first jail terms for social media posts that stoked far‑right disorder — alongside a steady stream of local magistrates’ and CPS prosecutions, have ha...
No single, clearly identified UK appellate or Supreme Court "landmark" ruling from 2023–2025 that definitively re-wrote the legal tests for what is "grossly offensive" or constitutes online "hate spee...
Since 2015 the landscape for policing and prosecuting online communications has shifted from piecemeal statutory tweaks to a coordinated charging and prosecutorial framework: Parliament lowered eviden...
Available public reporting and police FOI work does not produce a single, centrally published figure for convictions in 2024 arising from arrests under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and s...
Police decisions to arrest under of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the are governed not by a single national arrest rule but by prosecutorial guidance, force-level recording practices an...
Legal reform and changes to police recording practice since 2000 — most notably the , tightened counting rules and guidance after 2000, the formal “rape-flagging” and incident-recording regimes introd...
No domestic judicial ruling directly challenging Ofcom’s power to issue Technology Notices under the Online Safety Act is reported in the provided sources; the record instead shows regulatory design, ...
The United Kingdom criminalises a range of communications — including “malicious” or “grossly offensive” messages, threats, false communications and harassment — through statutes like the Malicious Co...
The primary statutes used to arrest people for online speech in the UK are section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988, with new criminal offences...
The Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA) is a UK law that imposes duties on social media and search services to protect users from illegal content and certain harms online, and it gives Ofcom powers to enforc...