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"The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets." Who?? What's he talking about?
by pogue 1y ago
"The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets."
Who?? What's he talking about?
- AlexandrB 1y agoProbably referring to Lucy Connoly[1] and the general numbers of speech arrests on the UK[2]. "Imprisoning thousands" may be an exaggeration though. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yl7p4l11po https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yl7p4l11po [2] https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-struggle-30-arrests-a-day-censorship/ https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-stru...
- roryirvine 1y agoIt's not actually true, of course - unless by "thousands" you mean "one or two", and by "for their tweets" you mean "for actively inciting serious violence in the middle of a riot". But it's a fairly common far right talking point, and similar claims come up a lot in certain types of anti-Western propaganda. Perhaps Durov could have been influenced by that?