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>>mmaria+(OP)
The new online safety rules are already being used to shut down government criticism. How it works is their new elite protection squad, if someone is deigned an influential critic of government policy, trawls through your social media posts until they find something against the laws. A lot of government critique is coming from the working class here now, who have virtually no political representation in the UK. As you can imagine, some of these social media posters don't mince their words, and end up getting caught out and arrested.

>>thdhhg+Sf
Do you have any examples of people being arrested for criticising a law?

Most of the time these dystopian descriptions of the UK turn out to be completely overblown nonsense when you look into them properly.

>>ChrisK+Qg
I suppose the most recent example are the people from Palestine Action being arrested en masse at protests.

>>b800h+Nn
They're not really being arrested for criticising a law though.

They're arrested for supporting a group that's been banned for causing around £30 million's worth of damage to our national defences at a time of hightened national security.

There's the implication that Palastinian Action are going to continue attacking us.

If they just stuck to protesting they would have been fine.

>>Lio+Jv
And at the same time, while people burning down hotels have been arrested, other people who have been egging them on and causing "stochastic terrorism" have been left alone.

What gets classed as "support for" and "terrorism" is not evenly enforced.