UK free speech crackdown sees up to 30 arrested per day for petty offenses like retweets...

Freedom of speech and rights only exist as the government is willing to allow. If they want to heighten control, then they will take these so-called "rights and freedoms" away at their disclosure if they feel they have to in order to protect their agenda. We seen that in play during the covid plandemic. They'll additionally use grooming, shaming tactics to yield adherence and outcast any individual or group who chooses not to comply.

And Trump isn't willing to allow free speech, if it involves flag burning.

FAFO

@grok is this real ?

More annoying that all my tax money is being spent cleaning crosses off roundabouts

Being UK based i can assure you Americans that we have to be very careful over here, a retweet could be jail, hanging out National flag in a public place could be jail, shouting "we love bacon" jail. It's quite frightening at the moment.

Add in a two tier policing and court system and you know justice isn't impartial.

Celebrate what you have over there, here, we are moving towards 1950's Soviet state.

Harassing Muslims by shouting "we love bacon" and throwing pieces of pork at them when they leave their mosques is not acceptable.

It wasn't acceptable when the Germans did similar to the Jews, and it's not acceptable that Brits are doing it to Muslims.

Some of these tweets have caused civil interest in the U.K.

Lucy Connolly encouraged people to burn down hotels housing asylum seekers. Several hotels were set alight and hotel workers had to barricade themselves in to prevent them being lynched.

The woman retweeting that the Southport killer was a Muslim asylum seeker led to criminal damage at the local mosque. A Romanian family in Hull was dragged and beaten from their car because they were mistaken for Arabs. An "English-only" roadblock was set up in Middlesbrough.

The killer turned out to be a black guy who'd spent his entire life in the U.K. and had christian parents.

The UK is cooked. It’s a combination of La La Land politicians, a naive immigration policy, and terrible teeth. Bolix!

How is it racist?

Muslim isn't a race.

These are the same people that would be defending the Nazis during WWII. SCUM!

Fact check: they arrested 30 people total for inciting violence online but dropped some of the charges.

bbc.com

They were arrested for posting on social media during the riots – will it change anything?

Charges following disorder felt significant, but for social media giants there was no day of reckoning.

Link:www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr548zdmz3jo

You really don't know the detail do you. Lucy Connelly expressed an opinion, her tweet which was only up for a short time included the phrase "as far as I care". No evidence was presented that her opinion had actually incited any unrest, the unrest was already underway.

She pled guilty because she was held in prison without bail and was told she would be released in time for Christmas for her family if she pled guilty and simply given a fine target than wait in prison for almost a year.

A leftist who called for people to have their throats cut, was released on ball, opted for a much delayed trial and was found not guilty of inciting violence.

A leftist who made up a claim Muslim women had been subject to acid attacks, in order to incite unrest, went unpunished

Again you don't know the detail. The man simply started "we like bacon" at a demonstration.