Comment by jojomodding
9 hours ago
Do you have a source for the 12k arrested in the UK?
I'm asking because all I could find was a list on Twitter that didn't cite any sources itself and also had very implausible numbers (including he 12k/year for the UK). Implausible based on the lived reality of friends of mine living in e.g. the UK or Germany.
Its an extrapolation based upon UK government arrest figures. It assumes everyone arrested ended up in jail. I have no idea if that is true or not but there are already plenty of documented cases of jail time for social media posts. Hope this helps.
PS 12k a year is more people than Russia jails a year for speech violations.
And I want to know the social media posts they got arrested for
How does it matter?
You can't go around exporting your flavour of free speech at the point of a gun while arresting your own people for yapping on X.
The definition of hypocrisy.
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