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https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-offences-and-concerns-over-free-speech/ https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-off...
by solenoid0937 5mo ago
https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-offences-and-concerns-over-free-speech/ https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-off...
12k people a year thrown in prison for spicy tweets
- 10xDev 5mo agoSo roughly 0.017% of the population. "Spicy tweets" including: sending false communications sending threatening communications sending or showing flashing images electronically to people with epilepsy intending to cause them harm (‘epilepsy trolling’) encouraging or assisting serious self-harm sending a photograph or film of a person’s genitals (‘cyberflashing’) sharing or threatening to share intimate photographs or film
- solenoid0937 5mo agoOr a lot more commonly - critique of immigration policy
- 10xDev 5mo agoYou are obviously invested in this narrative driven by Musk but you need to back it up properly.
- matthewmacleod 5mo agoWhy did you choose to lie about this today? I'm genuinely interesting – this is trivially obviously not true, so what motivated this?
- dgellow 5mo agoThat link says “12k arrests”, not thrown to prison! It’s also not clear how reliable that data is
- starshadowx2 5mo agoThat is not a true statement. Here's a good break down and explanation of what that number actually means - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB3WVygAM8I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB3WVygAM8I