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Comment by solenoid0937

10 days ago

https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-off...

12k people a year thrown in prison for spicy tweets

So roughly 0.017% of the population.

"Spicy tweets" including:

sending false communications

sending threatening communications

sending or showing flashing images electronically to people with epilepsy intending to cause them harm (‘epilepsy trolling’)

encouraging or assisting serious self-harm

sending a photograph or film of a person’s genitals (‘cyberflashing’)

sharing or threatening to share intimate photographs or film

That link says “12k arrests”, not thrown to prison! It’s also not clear how reliable that data is