UK continues arresting people for tweeting
You may recall a few weeks ago when King George decided to arrest a comedian stepping off a plane over some tweets (#1203874). It seems that the jolly monarch is back at it:
Last night, Pete North, a well-known political campaigner and veteran of the Brexit movement, was arrested by North Yorkshire Police, allegedly for posting on his Twitter account. A video released by Pete shows police arriving at his house around 9:30 p.m. On the video, an officer explained that he had ‘posted something on the internet’ which someone ‘didn’t appreciate’, that their ‘hate crime team’ had reviewed the post and as a result the police were arresting him on suspicion of ‘stirring up racial hatred’ under Section 19 of the Public Order Act.
Video of his arrest
In case you were wondering, it seems that this was the offending tweet:
Doesn't really matter if you sympathize or not, this seems fairly innocuous as far as speech goes. But beyond that, how do people not realize that these kind of laws leave a door wide open for whoever is interpreting what "bad speech" is?