While the UK has a million problems, the right-wing talking point over "arrests for social media posts" is entirely fake, made up, and 100% bullshit. The reality is that the number of people convicted for online posts in the UK has declined sharply since 2015 - from about 2000 then to less than 1100 in 2025. Of note is that only about 10% of those received any prison time, and the majority of those were less than two months long.
And no, those convictions weren't over shitposts, but posts inciting actual violence, calling for murder, abuse and god knows what else - like right-wingers calling for burning down asylum centers or killing non-white children.
So, if you see right-wing lunatics ejaculating over social media posts arrests in the UK - it's bullshit. None of it is true.
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Are Over a Thousand People Arrested Each Month in the UK for Social Media Posts?
On June 3, Georgian Dream MP Nino Tsilosani wrote that in the United Kingdom, more than a thousand people are
