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Police make 30 arrests a day for offensive online messages
Civil liberties groups say that the authorities are over-policing the internet and threatening free speech using vague laws
www.thetimes.com
The police are making more than 30 arrests a day over offensive posts on social media and other platforms.
Thousands of people are being detained and questioned for sending messages that cause “annoyance”, “inconvenience” or “anxiety” to others via the internet, telephone or mail.
Custody data obtained by The Times shows that officers are making about 12,000 arrests a year under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988.
The acts make it illegal to cause distress by sending “grossly offensive” messages or sharing content of an “indecent, obscene or menacing character” on an electronic communications network.
Officers from 37 police forces made 12,183 arrests in 2023, the equivalent of about 33 per day. This marks an almost 58 per cent rise in arrests since before the pandemic. In 2019, forces logged 7,734 detentions.
Comment:
Orwell was trying to warn us about censorship tyranny.
Censorship is a warning sign that totalitarians are in power.
The radical left Democrats would love to censor their critics.
If we had that here everyone on the USMB could be arrested.
............they have become the Stasi 
