The U.S. considering asylum to the UK "Thought Criminals"

[Don Alaska]

The Trump Administration is considering offering asylum to people in the UK who are being prosecuted for liking Facebook pasts and memes that criticize the Starmer Government. Reportedly "criminals" as young as 13 years old have been arrested for approving of things criticizing the government or advocating reducing immigration. It is considered "political prosecution" and is thus eligible for asylum in the U.S. Interesting @galty and @Smithy.

 

[galty]

Its say things about the Gov its more about hurty words as in the case of Katie Hopkins who called her self a Spaz ( I can be a arrested for writing that word)

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Katie Hopkins: Police Update

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UK police make numerous arrests for speech, particularly online, often under vague laws like the Malicious Communications Act 1988 and Communications Act 2003. These statutes criminalize sending messages that are grossly offensive, menacing, or cause alarm or distress, leading to over 30 arrests per day, amounting to around 12,000 in 2023. While most cases do not lead to convictions, the arrests can cause significant reputational damage, leading to concerns from civil liberties groups about the impact on free speech.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

Surely that will boil over before long?

I know even giant protests fell on deaf ears this year. It must be getting pretty frustrating though to be treated as powerless minions, basically serfs.

 

[Don Alaska]

Its say things about the Gov its more about hurty words as in the case of Katie Hopkins who called her self a Spaz ( I can be a arrested for writing that word)

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Katie Hopkins: Police Update

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UK police make numerous arrests for speech, particularly online, often under vague laws like the Malicious Communications Act 1988 and Communications Act 2003. These statutes criminalize sending messages that are grossly offensive, menacing, or cause alarm or distress, leading to over 30 arrests per day, amounting to around 12,000 in 2023. While most cases do not lead to convictions, the arrests can cause significant reputational damage, leading to concerns from civil liberties groups about the impact on free speech.

Sorry @galty Hopefully you will have a change of government in the near future.

 

[galty]

This is more down to police abusing laws.

 

[Don Alaska]

I read something about the UK doing away with police commissioners or chief constables and politicians exercising direct authority over the police there. Apparently the higher-ups in the police forces are uncomfortable about what they have been asked to do. Is any of this true? I saw a post by the head of the MET asking to stop the "policing of posts".

 

[Marie Mallory]

All Western nations are falling to immigration. No nation can survive taking in the worlds indigents and radicals.
This is planned by the world's powerful oligarchs. I feel so bad for the youth.