alt Hacker NewsHow many people are arrested for social media posts and other speech in each country?
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A guy was arrested for a joke he posted on social media about Charlie Kirk. He spent some time in jail but ended up winning a lawsuit. So the answer isn't exactly 0 in the US
It's actually quite hard to say, as there are no official figures on arrests specifically for social media posts in either country. And lot of the specific cases that people point to in the UK (e.g. Lucy Connolly) have parallels in the US:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/18/facebook-com...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg7pyjxjxrvo
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/federal-agents-mon...
(The figures that the American right give for "arrests for social media posts" in the UK are actually figures from certain police forces for arrests under various pieces of online communication legislation, many of which have nothing to do with social media.)
To be fair the other country routinely deploys military against citizens, and deports non-citizens for speech.