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Magnanimous of them. Here's what you can get arrested for though:

UK police launched an inquiry over offensive memes in a whatsapp chat. A man was later jailed for it:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/14/ex-police-of...

UK police arrest a man over offensive tweet. 150 hours community service followed:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004339/uk-twitter-user-...

UK police raiding a pub for displaying offensive dolls:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/golliwog-dolls-g...

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Don't forget "Police have seized my wife's laptop after one of her friends discovered and reported my wife's modded version of Skyrim."

https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1974t9g/poli...

Decency laws are a joke.

Seems law wasn't involved there, yet.

Probably worth noting that the first was while serving as a police officer in a chat with colleagues.

> James Watts was serving with West Mercia police in 2020 when he shared the “grossly offensive” material in a group chat, which included former colleagues at a Warwickshire prison.

Although the female police officer who did an identical thing was found not guilty after the prosecution "forgot" to follow it up:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11138385/Female-pol...

I'm sure similar arrests in the Russian Federation also have caveats that are "worth noting".

But in the grand scheme of things, how noteworthy are they?

I think the standards applied a normal citizen and a government official tasked with enforcing the law can reasonably be different. Most employers have standards and this person's employer was the government. Those standards are even more important because misconduct by government officials can lead to the kinds of injustice you seem to be worried about.

How are they simultaneously doing that bs while at the same time being more anti-trans than other western countries. Brits are so odd.

It's not generally about left-wing and right-wing, it's more that the UK is an authoritarian state, with relatively very few civil liberties compared to other western countries.

To give an example, when the government becomes upset with protests they just make them illegal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police,_Crime,_Sentencing_and_...

and if people in the UK strike too much, they just make that illegal too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikes_(Minimum_Service_Level...

i don't see the contradiction

In theory, policing hate speech is quite left wing and hating trans people is quite right wing

Do you know any of the original Twitter accounts? I'm curious if any of them were pseudonymous in any way

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