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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The insanity of leftism on full display.
It’s almost like a sting operation:
import a third world savage
savage attacks a Brit
Brit complains about being attacked
Arrest the Brit
leftists are selectively for or against police states
“... The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
The rest of the civilized world needs to treat the British government like the pariah it has chosen to become.
That’s very poorly worded. Better:
Britain already ranks among the most fascist Western nations in policing online speech.
Educated citizen: “Isn’t this like our British author George Orwell’s government in 1984?”
“Never read that one.”
Note: Orwell was born in India to a British colonial civil servant and his French born wife, but brought up in England from age one onward.
It’s horrible what has become of Britain. The Germans didn’t defeat it in WW II, but it’s certainly defeated now.
We will defend our tin foil hats, regardless of the cost.
They would arrest everybody on FR if they had a chance.
“A third world savage”?
Coppers!! Arrest this man!
Cops have addresses, same as everyone else.
L
Muslims are controlling England.
I fear that the old saying “there will always be an England” no longer applies.
Nope...not fascist...Maoists. The fascist were boy scouts when compared to Mao’s Red Guards.
So, if you post online “muslims can sod off” you go to jail?
Not me, I’d go out in a blaze of glory.
Oh wait…
They gave up their guns for “safety”.
Now, if you are a white Brit, they arrest you for buying a baseball bat.
BTW, King Charles converted to Islam years ago, so everyone is cool with it.
By decree, he is the head of the C of E, and cannot show other loyalty. He must abdicate the throne. If not, he should be removed and thrown in the dungeon.
What I don’t understand is that the IRGC also have addresses and apparently sleep well at night.
These leeches are more important than the taxpayers that support them
British police are tracking online social media posts for potential arrest, reported the Daily Telegraph.
<><>The Ntl Internet Intelligence Investigations unit notified local police about 106 posts,
<><>posts wrt the murder of teenager Henry by stabbed by Vikrum Digwa,
<><>Nowak’s pleas were reportedly ignored by woke officers
<><>Digwa and his brother conned the police
<><>they claimed Digwa killed b/c he was a “victim of racism.”
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