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    1. Submission statement: while China isn’t as transparent and the numbers are likely higher, the UK is being number one doesn’t give a good impression about the state of censorship.

      When will the people of the UK decide enough is enough?

    2. drpussycookermd on

      A contextual breakdown of the behavior/actions that resulted in these arrests would be nice

    3. Being racist and inciting violence is illegal, whether you’re saying it in person or behind a screen.

    4. Mindless-Mulberry807 on

      Orwell saw this coming 🤷‍♀️
      This country is suffocating my soul.

    5. Secret-Sky5031 on

      I’m assuming though if you say anything negative in Belarus and China, you end up disappearing though, which is far worse.

      Is there a source for this data? I mean, I’ve found the number for the UK you’ve cited, and it’s not purely on social media as in facebook memes, it’s DMs, text messages, emails, voice mails, videos etc

      Plus arrested isn’t the same as convictions, which is where it’d be more telling.

    6. People need to fight it more. Too many people when talking to the police say „yeah okay“ or „yes I understand“ while asking why they are being arrested instead of actually saying no they don’t understand and that they don’t agree. You have to be way more resistant even though I’m not blaming anyone. Don’t make it easy for them. Tell them they’re out of line or illegitimate. Reject the authority at the very least.

    7. Exciting_Opposite_51 on

      This graph is really misleading.

      The UK records and publishes data the most transparently out of all these countries first most, we log arrests centrally and publish them openly, including minor non custodial offences. Authoritative states underreport and classify arrests very differently. The stats are showing arrests but less than 10% of that uk number actually got convicted of a crime.

      We have very high social media use as a country and high reporting rates (where people actually report online behaviour). Compare that to countries where social media platforms are blocked or restricted, reporting online behaviour to the state ends up really dangerous and people self censor for that reason too – you’re naturally going to see less arrests for social media activity. Belarus tightly controls access and prosecutes dissent outside normal criminal stats, and China heavily censors platforms, so fewer arrests happen because the content never appears. You can’t arrest people for posts that are blocked before they’re visible.

      These stats are also statistically meaningless as they haven’t been adjusted for population, number of users and volume of posts per country.

    8. lolbanzarefutile on

      Nah, I’m not going to because I don’t care. You muppets voted for this and called americans that were warning against it „unsophisticated and low IQ yanks“ We warned you decades ago what would happen and you laughed now the laughter is gone and your country looks more like northern Iran than britain. You reap what you sow.

    9. Motherfuckers in these comments defending draconian censorship policies by stating “WELL MOST ARRESTS DONT LEAD TO CONVICTIONS!” has to be the single dumbest bootlicking bullshit I’ve ever heard.

      People are being arrested for what they say online. Period. What the fuck is wrong with you?

    10. Alan-TheDetroyer on

      Like China are gonna give you accurate figures lol

      „We definitely don’t oppress people

    11. AG3NTMULD3R88 on

      Oh yeah the UK is definitely fucked!

      If we call our prime minister a tosser on social media we expect the police to take action!

      The immigration is probably the worst part for us right now though.

    12. notreal3839399393 on

      Seeing what’s happening in the UK now, it feels like they’re just following the same playbook China went through. People think China’s total surveillance state happened purely because of their government. But what if it was part of the agreement when they opened up their economy to the West?

      When China opened to Western capital under Deng Xiaoping, it wasn’t just about factories and trade. It was about creating a testbed for mass population control. The One Child Policy was an early example – testing how to regulate reproduction at scale, packaged as economic necessity. Later came facial recognition, social credit scores, digital IDs, and AI policing.

      If you can control a population of 1.4 billion with these systems, replicating it in smaller nations is easy. And that’s what we’re seeing now in the UK. Under the guise of “online safety,” “hate speech laws,” and “public protection,” they are slowly building the same infrastructure.

      Japan went through its grooming earlier. The Meiji Restoration was not purely internal. Foreign advisors restructured its military and economy to serve global interests. After WWII, it was reshaped again into a controlled economic engine under American management.

      Japan was the prototype testbed – showing the East could be modernised under Western-designed systems. But when a bigger market was needed, China took its place.

      Japan’s economic bubble was popped deliberately in the late 80s, freezing it, while China rose rapidly in the 90s and 2000s. Same script, different actor.

      But China’s role was deeper than just factories. It became the testbed for total surveillance. And now every country is quietly aiming for that same level of control, just under different branding.

      Both Japan and China remain managed states within a bigger protocol. Groomed, deployed, and restrained when necessary. They are not independent empires. They are regional arms of a single integrated world system.

      Japan: Prototype testbed.
      China: Mass deployment and total control testbed.
      The UK and the rest of the world: Next in line.

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