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Posted on 08/11/2026 6:08:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A specialist British police unit created to track online sentiment has referred more than 100 social media posts to local forces for potential arrest, according to data obtained through Freedom of Information requests and reported by the Daily Telegraph.
The National Internet Intelligence Investigations unit notified local police about 106 posts, with 50 of those flagged in June alone, in the aftermath of disclosures surrounding the murder of teenager Henry Nowak. Nowak was stabbed to death by Vikrum Digwa, and his pleas for help were reportedly ignored by officers who doubted the dying student after his killer claimed to be a victim of racism.
Footage of Nowak’s final moments spread widely online and triggered protests and riots in Southampton, fueling accusations of two-tier policing among critics who argued Nowak was treated differently from his killer because he was white.
The task force traces its origins to the Southport riots, which broke out after Axel Rudakubana, a teenager of Rwandan heritage, murdered three young girls and wounded 10 others in a mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event. Rather than reckon with the role immigration policy played in the tragedy, the Labour government under then-Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer labeled the public backlash “far-right” and launched a sweeping crackdown, arresting more than 1,876 people, including some individuals whose only offense was a social media post.
Police chiefs declined to detail the specific posts flagged by the unit, saying disclosure could jeopardize ongoing investigations. They nonetheless acknowledged the initiative remains “still in the early stages of being established,” a signal that the volume of flagged posts is likely to grow.
Britain already ranks among the most aggressive Western nations in policing online speech. The Times of London has estimated that police made 33 arrests per day in 2023 over allegedly offensive online content, totaling 12,183 arrests for the year, all before this new task force reached full operation.
The National Police Coordination Centre, the same body that oversaw Britain’s policing response during COVID-19 lockdowns, defended the unit’s mission, saying it “supports policing’s understanding of protest-related activity in the online environment by developing a broader picture of emerging, potential risks.” The centre added: “Looking across force boundaries enables the identification of issues that may not be evident from information held within individual force areas alone.”
The online monitoring effort follows a pattern set during the pandemic, when the British government deployed the Army’s 77 Brigade, a specialist “information warfare” unit, to track and influence public opinion, including monitoring journalists and politicians critical of lockdown policy.
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This is what “Net Neutrality” was going to be run by Facebook.
Silicon Valley had everything ready for a Hillary presidency to turn the ON switch.
Sad
Outrageous! Lord have mercy on those people.
“want the bearded savages out of the country.”
You beardo-phobe, you! First, they came for the bearded savages. Then they came for the Chassidic rabbis and the Amish, except the bearded savages had already killed them./;D
I have no doubt that is true. I wonder if those mental midgets, would try to identify Freepers, and try to lure them to the UK, to arrest them?
We toured the UK for 20 days last year and that thought crossed my mind! I was ultra careful about going online and not posting anything that could remotely get me in trouble. Talk about “chilling.”
“I have no doubt that is true. I wonder if those mental midgets, would try to identify Freepers, and try to lure them to the UK, to arrest them?”
A while ago their PM did state they would go after people in other nations for criticizing them as well. So we are probably already on their watch list if passing through Heathrow as I can’t see them coming over here to make any arrests for making negative comments about their tyrannical government. Too many guns on this side of the pond.
More on the goon squad...er, elite unit that was formed, coincidentally I’m sure, after the Southport unrest...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/elite-police-unit-refers-more-120000185.html
The National Internet Intelligence Investigations team...
Nope, that doesn’t sound Orwellian at all.
SNORT.
Everyone here should go to these Brit-monitored WWW sites and post shitte about bobbies, the Met, and London lies.
Flood them with posts they cannot do anything about. Help the oppressed English to regain some freedom.
From July...
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/social-media-posts-anti-migrant-b2796768.html
Still wondering about the hires for this unit...
Somehow I doubt the UK’s Deep State is recruiting your average Bobby.
Good point. I guess I will never have any plans to visit the UK. Even TOUSI left the country.
They know they’re an inch from civil war - so the only tactic now is to try and scare people into not saying what everyone is thinking.
It’s also a fool’s errand. All while they have 1000’s of known terrorists walking around.
What could go wrong?
I graduated from Lakenheath High School, so no more reunions except for the ones held in the U.S.
Please show us these posts so that we will know what is criminal to post in the once “Great Britain”.
Except for Tommy Robinson, I'll have to say no.
That person is probably a supporter of the Labour Party therefore he will be likely to vote for the Democratic Party in USA.
Why limit their Socialism to only faschism?
I was at Lakenheath in 1983.
Maybe that'll start AFTER the next general election... :(
NOT ONE drop of American blood for these idiots. Let’s get out of NATO... now.
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