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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
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/15/britains-police...

Tons of people are arrested and charged every day for thought crimes in Britain.

>>ls612+7j
Paywalled. Might be better: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/parents-arre...

It sounds like there was harrasment involved, but it is scant on details.

>>Steve1+i11
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"