I think there are a couple at least.Do we still have members posting here who are in GB?
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I think there are a couple at least.Do we still have members posting here who are in GB?
Wasn't one member known as Rita?I think there are a couple at least.
Yes.Wasn't one member known as Rita?
I can't recall,without checking her post history,the last time I read her here.
I wonder if the internet police got her for what she's posted here?Yes.
Do You honestly believe that ?I wonder if the internet police got her for what she's posted here?
They can't touch Americans and our free speech on forums,though they tried. But,I think they're so corrupt and Satanic there now that the censor authorities may hold citizens responsible for replying to what Americans say.
Do You honestly believe that ?
You should see what is posted on facebook, Reddit and other places by U K citizens, and you honestly think that everyone is taken down for it. You believe that what I have posted here would cause that reaction.
FIRE | Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression +7Google query:
british censorship online citizens subject to arrest
Result:
Yes, British citizens can be arrested for online speech under laws like the Communications Act 2003 and Malicious Communications Act 1988, with police arresting individuals for posts deemed "grossly offensive," threatening, or inciting hatred, leading to concerns about censorship and broad application of these laws, particularly under the Online Safety Act. While not a blanket "censorship" in the style of authoritarian states, these laws allow arrests for various online communications, including hate speech, "non-crime hate incidents," and false information, with authorities even threatening extradition for content posted from abroad.
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Key Laws & Powers:
Arrests & Concerns:
- Communications Act 2003 (Section 127): Allows police to arrest for sending grossly offensive, indecent, obscene, or menacing messages.
- Malicious Communications Act 1988 (Section 1): Criminalizes sending messages intended to cause distress or anxiety.
- Online Safety Act (2023): Introduced new offenses for things like spreading false information causing non-trivial harm, threatening communications, and cyberflashing.
- Non-Crime Hate Incidents: Police record incidents not yet criminal but deemed hateful, creating records that can follow individuals, including children.
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In essence, the UK uses existing and new laws to police online speech, leading to arrests for a range of communication deemed harmful or offensive, even if politically disfavored, sparking significant debate over free expression.
- High Arrest Rates: Police have made thousands of arrests under these laws, averaging around 30 daily for offensive online messages, according to a 2025 report in The Times.
- Examples: Arrests have occurred for online posts linking migrants to crime, politically incorrect tweets, and other content deemed to violate "woke orthodoxy" or incite unrest.
- Criticism: Civil liberties groups and figures like Nigel Farage criticize the broad application of these laws, fearing a chilling effect on free speech and a shift towards authoritarian control, despite official aims to combat online harms.
- Extradition Threats: UK authorities have warned they might pursue extradition for individuals outside the UK posting content that violates UK laws.
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United Kingdom: Freedom on the Net 2025 Country Report
According to an April 2025 freedom of information report filed by The Times, over 12,000 people were arrested, including for social media posts, in 2023 under s...
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Online Communication Offence Arrests - Hansard - UK Parliament
Jul 17, 2025 — The tendency to police—literally—what people are saying has been encouraged and enabled by not just this Government but their predecessors. The Malicious Commun...
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2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: United Kingdom
After the attack, numerous individuals were arrested for online speech about the attack and its motivations, though in some cases charges were later dropped. Nu...
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Online Safety Act: explainer - GOV.UK
The new offences that the Act has introduced The criminal offences introduced by the Act came into effect on 31 January 2024. These offences cover: encouraging ...
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UK police threaten to prosecute speech from ‘further afield online’ ...
Aug 21, 2024 — This rule led to the confiscation of multiple fans' signs, including one that said, “Let's go Taiwan,” and another simply displaying the country's name. The inc...
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How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
Sep 22, 2025 — "At what point did we become North Korea?" That was the question Nigel Farage posed when asked by a US congressional committee about limitations on freedom of speech...
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Yes, the UK really is that bad for free speech
British police are making roughly thirty arrests a day for ``offensive'' or otherwise unlawful online communications.
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Select communications offences and concerns over free speech
Source: Charlie Parker et al, 'Police make 30 arrests a day for offensive online messages', Times (£), 4 April 2025.
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Trading the Pen for the Brick: Free Speech in the United Kingdom
Jan 12, 2025 — In contrast to the U.N.'s standard for free expression, the United Kingdom's present laws demonstrate a much more limited interpretation.[44] The United Kingdom...
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Internet censorship in the United Kingdom
Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 criminalises sending another any article which is indecent or grossly offensive with an intent to cause distress or anxiety.
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Given the Islamification of Great Britain,and all of Europe , it will be very difficult to walk back Fascist oppression policies that were implemented in order to placate the Muslim population the British government is pandering to now.Ben Habib (Advance UK) who hopes to become Prime Minister says he wants to get free speech back.
Brief video...Ben Habib says it clearly.
Short video...in first half Ben Habib tells of instances that limit free speech in UK, including police going into schools for children as young as 9 years old for what they said to classmate.
There is no freedom of speech there.I didn’t actually say it never happened, I was referring to the fact that you presumed it was happening to everyone in the U.K and that there is no freedom of speech. Also that it was a reason why I wasn’t posting !!
For goodness are Button -as you have said to others ‘ you do not live here ‘ !There is no freedom of speech there.
And, I wondered if this is why you weren't posting. I did not state it was why you were not posting. Obviously,because I would have no way of knowing that. Unless I was affiliated with those who would take you into custody were that the case.
Thank God.For goodness are Button -as you have said to others ‘ you do not live here ‘ !
Somewhere in Heaven George Orwell is looking down on Britain and saying, I warned you!