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> Someone else will make a joke about police officers investigating tweets. That practice - which was put to an end a couple of years ago

This claim is 100% false. We’ve seen multiple people jailed for tweets this year alone.

> I have much greater faith in my government to protect my freedom of speech

You don’t have free speech. The U.K. has no such general right. That’s why people are in jail for tweets.



You're right - they have no free speech. They can't even speak freely about the horrible crimes being committed in their nation by grooming gangs.

Many US companies won't capitulate to these regulations. The UK is going to simply be cut off from many social media services.


> They can't even speak freely about the horrible crimes being committed in their nation by grooming gangs.

Unsure what exactly you're referring to, which might be ironic, but there's lots of news reports about grooming gangs, as well as the surrounding controversy and debate around ethnicity and political correctness see: https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=grooming+gang&d=NEWS_PS


> The UK is going to simply be cut off from many social media services.

Oh no! Anyway...


...jailed for inciting rioting.

That would land you in jail in the UK no matter what forum you said it in. No we have no right to incite people to riot in the UK. That is something I'm rather proud of.


In the Peoples Republic of China they call this 寻衅滋事, "starting a fight, provoking a dispute". A lot of them are very proud of their laws as well.


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Do you have a citation for that? People may have said words to that effect in addition to inciting rioting, but no one has been send to jail for saying that.


Okay upon further investigation it does appear I was incorrect about that case. I'm glad to have been, that was very concerning and scary. My mistake.

However there are still some concerning cases - a girl was punished for posting song lyrics:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921


A song lyric containing an offensive racial slur?

"She was given an eight-week community order, placed on an eight-week curfew and told to pay costs of £500 and an £85 victim surcharge."

Not really the same league of punishment as the jailing you made up in your earlier post




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