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Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003

A law under which online communications offences are prosecuted in the UK.

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Jan 12, 2026
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How many of those arrested for online communications in the UK were subsequently charged, convicted, or imprisoned?

In 2023 UK police recorded roughly 12,000 arrests for online communications offences under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 (about 12,1...

Jan 9, 2026

How many prosecutions and convictions followed online hate-speech arrests in England and Wales in 2024?

Official statistics do not report a single, clean tally of prosecutions and convictions that flowed specifically from “online hate-speech arrests” in England and Wales in 2024; instead the available f...

Jan 7, 2026

How does the Communications Act 2003 apply to offensive posts and social media content?

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...