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UK: Revealed: Police arrests on Twitter and Facebook

19 February 2015

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"Over 355 people have been charged or cautioned for messages on social media, many of them for causing 'offence', new research has revealed.

"A report by Big Brother Watch found 6,329 people had been charged or cautioned under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and the Malicious Communications Act 1988, both pieces of legislation which precede the emergence of Facebook or Twitter."

See the full article: Revealed: Police arrests on Twitter and Facebook (politics.co.uk, link)


And see report: Careless Whispers: How speech is policed by outdated communications legislation (Big Brother Watch, pdf)

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