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Britain's Speech Gulag Exposed

"A damning study complete with an interactive map has revealed that UK police arrested nearly 10,000 people in 2024 for 'grossly offensive' social media posts—equivalent to 30 arrests every single day—while knife crime, burglary, and sexual offences go unsolved." -(ZeroHedge).

This is something that I meant to post a lot sooner, but even though it is somewhat dated, the situation in the U.K. hasn't changed for the better yet.

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This Orwellian crackdown, driven by vague “communications” laws, has turned Britain into an international embarrassment, with forces devoting more manpower to policing opinions than protecting citizens.

Compiled from Freedom of Information requests to 39 police forces, the data shows 9,700 arrests in 2024 alone under the Communications Act 2003 and Malicious Communications Act 1988.

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As we reported earlier this year, Britain now averages 30 speech arrests daily—Toby Young of the Free Speech Union described it as “a national scandal” and warned the UK is becoming “the North Korea of the North Sea.”

The map spotlights absurd prosecutions, like comedy writer Graham Linehan’s 2025 Heathrow arrest by five armed officers for three gender-critical tweets; a 71-year-old ex-cop detained eight hours for mocking a pro-Palestine activist, with officers mocking his “very Brexity” books; and parents raided at dawn over “sarcastic” school emails, held for 11 hours in front of their crying daughter, with eventually no charges filed.

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