Man jailed for posting online during public disorder.
Retired police officer arrested over thought-crime tweet.
Jailed for a Facebook post.
If you're American, you've probably seen headlines like these and thought, yikes, Britain arrests people for tweets?
Thank God we have freedom of speech.
In fact, this is a popular comment format I see on my videos comparing the US and the UK all the time.
Bro, you're living in a country where people are getting arrested for making comments online.
I've had American family members message me asking if I'm going to get a knock at the door for saying the wrong thing in one of these videos.
And a lot of this traces back to one number that's gone viral.
And most importantly, they've already arrested 12,000 people for social media posts.
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