Comment by ChrisKnott
9 days ago
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.
9 days ago
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.
Yup, along the same lines as the “sharia no go zones” and “get stabbed six ways to Sunday every time you go outside” myths
Here is the Berlin Chief of Police admitting the existence of no go zones in the city for gay people and Jews) [1]
[1]https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/berliner-polizeip...
Berlin and London are two different places.
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Our town has been abandoned by police and is overrun with violent criminals on unlicensed motorbikes. So make of that what you will.
Which town? I’d be interested in reading about this if you could share some sources please
Myths not without an element of truth. Have you spent any serious amount of time in Bradford, for example?
Yup, nice town, friendly people. Bit run down and scruffy, but that’s hardly the fault of the people who live there, rather the economic policies of several decades that destroyed the region’s industry and has failed to encourage growth for a replacement - similar to the USA’s rust belt or similar post-industrial regions in Europe.
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I suppose the most recent example are the people from Palestine Action being arrested en masse at protests.
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.
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.
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„Arrested for supporting a group“ you hear yourself right?
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There are discussions in parliament about grooming gangs on X. These are soft-censored (you can't see it without passing the the age verification). Few people will be bothered to make an account to see a post and pass age verification. Therefore it slows the sharing of information.
It isn't about outright banning the discussion, because that will cause considerable push-back by the public. So you dress up a policy as doing one thing knowing that the effect will be another. I don't take anything the British State says at face value. If you do, you are simply being naive.
Parliament debates are broadcast on the BBC and https://parliamentlive.tv/ . Are they age restricted there?
But we are only in the first week of the bill passing. After say 6 months or a year, most people who want to see things on those platforms will have done the age verification, and therefore there will be no "soft censoring" or slow down of information.
This seems like a non issues isolated to the initial period of being introduced.
Look up the videos "blackbeltbarrister" on YouTube. He's doing a good job of explaining the law as it is and how it's really being applied in the UK.
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/05/15/britains-police...
Tons of people are arrested and charged every day for thought crimes in Britain.
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.
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"