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Comment by ls612

9 days ago

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"