"Arrests for offensive Facebook and Twitter posts soar in London" [1]
"Arrests for 'offensive' Twitter and Facebook messages up by a third" [2]
"British Police Arrest At Least 3,395 People for ‘Offensive’ Online Comments in One Year" [3]
"Police arresting nine people a day in fight against web trolls" [4]
"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.
About half of the investigations were dropped before prosecutions were brought, however, leading to criticism from civil liberties campaigners that the authorities are over-policing the internet and threatening free speech...."
The Met decided they needed to be seen to act to remove the "dangerous" rape alarms, but the easiest way to do that was to arrest these poor folks (https://twitter.com/ProfColinDavis/status/165561644937587509...). The police knew they knew were around and had rape alarms because that's their job and the police gave them the alarms.
> "The ones in London like to regale others with tales of how much they enjoy donning their riot gear and using any excuse to batter people, especially if they are black"
If this is true then you need to immediately report it to MPS DPS and IOPC.
has the UK gone fucking insane in the last ten years or so? was it always like this? it seems like i just keep hearing these mind-boggling police state stories lately. maybe in the US we have to worry more about getting shot by the cops but i'd take that astronomical chance over worrying about posting song lyrics on my instagram or making a dark joke: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7686779/vile-grenfell-effigy-t...
Feel free to run around london with a knife or push people on to the tracks at stations though. The police are busy dealing with real crime like upsetting tweets.
"Arrests for 'offensive' Twitter and Facebook messages up by a third" [2]
"British Police Arrest At Least 3,395 People for ‘Offensive’ Online Comments in One Year" [3]
"Police arresting nine people a day in fight against web trolls" [4]
"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.
About half of the investigations were dropped before prosecutions were brought, however, leading to criticism from civil liberties campaigners that the authorities are over-policing the internet and threatening free speech...."
[1] - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-for-offensive-f...
[2] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/02/social_media_arrests...
[3] - http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/10/14/british-police-ar...
[4] - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-arresting-nine-peo...
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