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Published 27 Oct 2025“Think before you post.” Those were the words screamed out by government social-media accounts, threatening to lock up people for “hate speech”, as riots swept the United Kingdom in the summer of 2024. To those who hadn’t been paying attention, it offered a stark insight into a supposedly liberal, democratic nation that had come to police speech as much as, sometimes even more so, than actual violence. Inciting racial hatred, inciting religious hatred, “grossly offensive” online communications – over the past 60 years or so, Britain has written one new speech crime after another into its statute books. And it has led to a situation in which at least 30 people a day are now arrested in England and Wales for social-media posts. This is a documentary about some of those speech criminals. What we found out was even more chilling than the headlines would have you believe. Featuring: Maxie Allen, Rosalind Levine, Toby Young, Allison Pearson, Luke Gittos and Jamie Michael.
November 8, 2025
Think Before You Post | How the UK fell to a sinister new form of censorship
Filed under: Britain, Government, Law, Liberty, Media, Politics, Technology — Tags: Censorship, FreedomOfSpeech, KeirStarmer, Police, SocialMedia, VictimlessCrime — Nicholas @ 04:00
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