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https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/15/britains-police-are-restricting-speech-in-worrying-ways https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/15/britains-polic

by ls612 1y ago

https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/15/britains-police-are-restricting-speech-in-worrying-ways https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/15/britains-police... Tons of people are arrested and charged every day for thought crimes in Britain.

Steve16384 1y ago
Paywalled. Might be better: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/parents-arrest-school-whatsapp-complained-cowley-hill-b2723751.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/parents-arre... It sounds like there was harrasment involved, but it is scant on details.
- pjc50 1y ago
  Whenever one of these stories come up, we find there is a side missing. In this case, it's a school, so for safeguarding reasons they're not going to say anything at all about the children. Quite often "arrested for saying X" turns out to be "arrested for a lengthy campaign of targeted harrasment, culminating in X"