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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Those dudes are not sleeping at the same address every night.
The British are treating Orwell as a writer of operations manuals, not a writing of totalitarian warnings. It is a sad thing.
Massive institutional suicidal empathy, to use a concept Gad Saad is popularizing.
I was TDY for a couple of months (Dec 83 - Jan 84) at Mildenhall working with the SR71. I spent a lot of time at the Smokehouse Pub when I was there enjoying a couple of pints.
This also problematic because FR post are indexed on Google.
Guaranteed the UK government monitors everything here. If I used my real name I would have received a 30 year sentence in prison when I go visit the family in Scotland.
And Scotland... the home office has dumped bus loads of Islamic turds in every village in the highlands. Filthy savage low IQ violent beasts. The lot of them. The Hebrides are next but there isn’t the welfare system installed yet. They are working on it though. “It isn’t good that Scotland is white” - UK Government and that cunt King Chuck.
The UK: Devolving into totalitarianism on their way to becoming UKistan, if they are not already.
We toured The Highlands. I remember stopping at a coffee shop / rest area there and some white motorcyclists were taking a break sitting out by their bikes. The bikes were flying the Union Jack! And a couple of the guys had Union Jack vests on. I gave them a big smile and thumbs-up and they responded in kind.
—If you wish to STAY ON this list, do nothing.—If you wish to be DROPPED, FReepmail to Albion Wilde.
—If you did not receive a ping and wish to be ADDED, FReepmail to Albion Wilde.
You would hope so. But the rest of Europe, except for Hungary and Poland, just nods along. Central and South America are eyeing techniques they can use and Africa cheers, along with India. China and Russia just stand back: when your enemy is committing self harm, let him.
Thank you, but each time I read of what they’ve become, it breaks my heart.
The rest of the civilized world is setting up the framework for their own AI powered surveillance state.
AI will truly be a labor saver for tyrants. It allows them to free up their jackboot thugs to concentrate on field work hauling in patriots until the robots are ready for that job.
Same with me.
The only people I despise more than the dictator‘s thugs are their poison pens, i.e. the hacks who scribble the propaganda. Utterly vile people, these killers without guns or knives.
“”If you would like to be ADDED to an occasional pinglist about UK Two-Tier Policing—oppression of its native citizenry in favor of its foreign-born and recent immigrants—FReepmail to Albion Wilde.””
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I’m in.
“”Thank you, but each time I read of what they’ve become, it breaks my heart.””
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Just thank God that we got away from them when we did. They’re just getting started with the tyranny.
“Police.” Lol
So that’s a no? I respect your reason and hear you.
Sounds good. Pings are infrequent, but there are a lot of freepers heartsick over UK.
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