Valnao@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agoBritish man putting up UK flags arrested on suspicion of causing ‘alarm and distress’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down16
arrow-up148arrow-down1external-linkBritish man putting up UK flags arrested on suspicion of causing ‘alarm and distress’www.theguardian.comValnao@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareCorporal_Punishment@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoJust pointing out that every single one of those arrests will be because a member of public has reported them. The vast majority will have been targeted at a specific individual and are likely to have been in the forms of targeted abuse or threats. A more accurate graph would have the number of people arrested for merely writing something the government doesnt agree with.
minus-squareAMoralNihilist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoSo many people just have this “oh it was written on the internet, it can’t be illegal”. Mate when you are calling for people to set fire to hotels to burn migrants for their skin colour it’s fucking illegal.
minus-squareCorporal_Punishment@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoThey’re the same people who were complaining when we weren’t mourning the loss of Charlie Kirk
Just pointing out that every single one of those arrests will be because a member of public has reported them.
The vast majority will have been targeted at a specific individual and are likely to have been in the forms of targeted abuse or threats.
A more accurate graph would have the number of people arrested for merely writing something the government doesnt agree with.
So many people just have this “oh it was written on the internet, it can’t be illegal”. Mate when you are calling for people to set fire to hotels to burn migrants for their skin colour it’s fucking illegal.
They’re the same people who were complaining when we weren’t mourning the loss of Charlie Kirk