Posted on 08/07/2024 2:43:26 PM PDT by ransomnote
I haven't been following Britain well at all, and snooping around to try to catch up, I came across some arrest information from 2016 for content posted on Social media. If it was that bad in 2016, I can't imagine what social media policing is like there now. Many in Britain are posting massive protest videos on X.com. Are they going to be charged with 'inciting to riot'? Prayers up.
Two clarifications:
1. The "3,300" figure i(below) is likely a reference to a 2017 piece in The Times.
More than 3,300 people were detained and questioned last year over so-called trolling on social media and other online forums, a rise of nearly 50 per cent in two years, according to figures obtained by The Times.
2. The caption on the second video needs a little clarification. The British woman arrested in 2016 for posting her friend's favorite rap song on Social Media (it contained the n-word) was fined, ticketed, given 500 hours of community service, and had a year-long curfew from 8pm to 8am.
https://x.com/0rf/status/1764844088577147207
btt
How many people arrested for praying silently in Russia?
A small point, Russia has 144 million and the UK has 66 million. So norming for population size, you are 18 times more likely to be arrested in the UK for saying something wrong on social media.
But in truth, except for a very brief couple of decades, there is no right to free speech in the UK.
It’s coming here!
I wish I had grounds to disagree with you.
Today
Video
UK authorities will round up and charge citizens who Retweet any material deemed as “inciting hatred”
https://rumble.com/v5a2kgc-uk-authorities-will-charge-citizens-who-retweet-any-material-deemed-as-inci.html
“Number of people arrested for things they said on social media last year - In Russia: 400 - In Britain: 3300 (2016)”
And that was under a nominally-Conservative government in the UK. No doubt the people happy to see Scott Ritter about to be jailed are CELEBRATING the above.
My prediction is, now that a hard-core Globalist government has seized power the UK, they’ll finally find a use for Detention Centers they built in Rwanda, the ones originally meant for Illegals.
Number of activists in Russia who don’t use social media but who tragically fell out of an open window - 6,000.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Matt Orfalea @0rf | Number of people arrested for things they said on social media last year - In Russia: 400 - In Britain: 3300 (2016), DoodleBob wrote: Matt Orfalea @0rf | Number of people arrested for things they said on social media last year - In Russia: 400 - In Britain: 3300 (2016) Number of activists in Russia who don’t use social media but who tragically fell out of an open window - 6,000.
I'll see your 'Russia', and raise you one 'Hillary Clinton.'
The Brits still think they are free...
The west has gone full fascist to usher in their dream of global socialism.
1984
Course there ain’t but 400 people in Russia on social media
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