Indeed - with the irony meter firmly pegged.
Recently unveiled statue of Orwell in London:
Posted on 10/14/2017 9:32:50 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Figures obtained by The Times through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that 3,395 people across 29 forces were arrested last under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, which makes it illegal to intentionally “cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another”, in 2016.
The true figure is likely to be significantly higher, as thirteen police forces refused to provide the requested information and two did not provide usable data.
Around half of the investigations were abandoned before being brought to prosecution, which critics say is an indication that the authorities are being excessively strict in their interpretation of the law’s restrictions on freedom of speech.
Nevertheless, many forces have massively stepped up their focus on so-called trolls, with the number of arrests by West Midlands Police having increased by an astonishing 877 per cent since 2014.
With Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s announcement of a special national police hub focused on online hate last week, it is expected that these numbers will only increase.
Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, said: “the problem is ‘grossly offensive’ is not something you should normally be prosecuted for. It’s not showing harm to other people. It’s not showing that somebody is being … attacked or threatened.”
The seeming inconsistency in the enforcement of free speech restrictions has also been a source of contention, with the Metropolitan Police — who detained 867 people in 2016, according to the Times figures — appearing reluctant to investigate people such as Nadia Chan, the self-described Islamist who was revealed as having made a number of deeply racist remarks about white people on social media after an appearance on public broadcaster Channel 4.
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Coming to your local college and university campus in the very near future. The part where you can be arrested....
The story is from The Times in the UK.
Indeed - with the irony meter firmly pegged.
Recently unveiled statue of Orwell in London:
Robert Bruce was onto something.
This is the kind of police state oppression that groups like the SPLC and the ADL have been trying to bring to America for decades. These groups and their allies having been trying to make an issue out of “harassment” on the internet in the last few years. Laws like the ones in the UK are the goal of that campaign.
A large portion of the younger part of the white population in the U.K. has been convicted of crimes involving drugs, alcohol and other offenses and is impoverished. The content of their public education is socially pathological and atrocious. Their starch laden diets lacking expensive protein and vegetables have made them fat and are killing them. They live under enormous stress with the fear of monstrous rental rates and fear of homelessness. It looks much like the situation in the U.S.A. but more so.
Our next war will be with all of Europe.....including the UK
The regime of use of pretended exaggerated sensitivities is in part due to feminism, the divorce/cohabitation regime and employment policies against men. It’s all part of the path to eventual communism.
I’m not quite sure why we saved the British from Nazism.
They imposed a pretty Nazi-like regime all by themselves.
Eric Blair was certainly attuned to the fascist tendencies of his countrymen.
The end of Free Speech in Britain.
Coming soon to an Obamanation near you.
What a joke. No freedom of speech in Britain apparently.
The Old Brits are NOTHING like the New Brits.
The original founders were brilliant.
One wonders if the UK truly ever was a nation to be proud of. Sure doesn’t sound like it right now.
A moral affirmative always trumps political correctness regardless of what the law says.
When tyranny becomes law; rebellion becomes duty.
Enemy islam coming soon to your community, if it isn’t there already.
Amazing.
Thank you for the documentation of my statement.
Because England treated their empire like an ATM, lots of once servants are now free.
Canada is as bad or worse.
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