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8/23/2025, 5:09:17 AM
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British government arrests 30 people daily for "dangerous ideas" in group chats and online posts
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-struggle-30-arrests-a-day-censorship/
Social media continues to be flooded with videos of British cops banging on doors in the middle of the night and hauling parents off to jail—all over mean Facebook posts and agitated words on X.
Data suggests over 30 people a day are arrested for speech crimes, about 12,000 a year, under laws written well before the age of social media that make crimes of sending “grossly offensive” messages or sharing content of an “indecent, obscene or menacing character.”
Maxie Allen, a radio producer in Hertfordshire, was on a Zoom call at home when he saw police standing over his shoulder from the camera view on his screen. Six officers came knocking — his partner Rosalind Levine, who answered the door, thought their disabled daughter had died — to haul the couple off over comments they posted in a private WhatsApp group for parents at their children’s school.
In the chat, the couple had been repeatedly critical of the public school’s slow pace to recruit a replacement headteacher.
“It’s shaken the faith of the country I thought I lived in. I never imagined that just by airing your views about how an organization was run, trying to hold people to account in public office, that you get arrested for that,” Allen, 50, told the Post.
Meanwhile in Derby, a 35-year-old man named Dimitrie Stoica was arrested for “sending a false communication with intent to cause harm” after he posted a video on TikTok to his 700 followers, which he called a spoof, where he pretended he was being chased by right-wing rioters.
Despite police admitting the video caused no problems, Stoica was jailed for three months and forced to pay a $200 fine.
Last October, Adam Smith-Connor, a 51-year-old Army veteran, was convicted and forced to pay a $12,000 fine for silently praying outside an abortion clinic in Dorset. And on, and on.
Social media continues to be flooded with videos of British cops banging on doors in the middle of the night and hauling parents off to jail—all over mean Facebook posts and agitated words on X.
Data suggests over 30 people a day are arrested for speech crimes, about 12,000 a year, under laws written well before the age of social media that make crimes of sending “grossly offensive” messages or sharing content of an “indecent, obscene or menacing character.”
Maxie Allen, a radio producer in Hertfordshire, was on a Zoom call at home when he saw police standing over his shoulder from the camera view on his screen. Six officers came knocking — his partner Rosalind Levine, who answered the door, thought their disabled daughter had died — to haul the couple off over comments they posted in a private WhatsApp group for parents at their children’s school.
In the chat, the couple had been repeatedly critical of the public school’s slow pace to recruit a replacement headteacher.
“It’s shaken the faith of the country I thought I lived in. I never imagined that just by airing your views about how an organization was run, trying to hold people to account in public office, that you get arrested for that,” Allen, 50, told the Post.
Meanwhile in Derby, a 35-year-old man named Dimitrie Stoica was arrested for “sending a false communication with intent to cause harm” after he posted a video on TikTok to his 700 followers, which he called a spoof, where he pretended he was being chased by right-wing rioters.
Despite police admitting the video caused no problems, Stoica was jailed for three months and forced to pay a $200 fine.
Last October, Adam Smith-Connor, a 51-year-old Army veteran, was convicted and forced to pay a $12,000 fine for silently praying outside an abortion clinic in Dorset. And on, and on.