A guy in Britain got held overnight under anti-terrorism laws just for stuff he posted online. Cops took his phone, grabbed his laptop. Then his bank account? Frozen. Gone.
Here's the kicker - this happens over 30,000 times every year in the UK through something called Schedule 7 detentions. Thirty thousand.
You say the wrong thing online, suddenly you're a security threat. Your devices? Confiscated. Your money? Inaccessible. No trial, no jury, just bureaucratic power doing its thing.
It's getting harder to ignore how quickly speech restrictions are tightening up over there. The line between speaking your mind and getting labeled a problem keeps shifting.
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UncleWhale
· 12-07 07:08
This is ridiculous. Saying the wrong thing gets your card frozen? Do we even have any rights left?
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DAOTruant
· 12-06 23:35
Damn, 30,000 times? Per year? What kind of monster system is this?
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MEVictim
· 12-06 22:57
NGL, this is just ridiculous. How can it be called a democratic country if there's no freedom of speech?
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SerLiquidated
· 12-06 22:55
ngl this is just ridiculous, freezing accounts without even giving a trial? The UK's schedule 7 is really playing with fire.
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HodlTheDoor
· 12-06 22:51
30,000 times? Oh my, that number is outrageous. Is freedom of speech just gone like that?
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RamenStacker
· 12-06 22:39
ngl this is just absurd, if there's no freedom of speech, what's the point of playing with Web3...
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NFTRegretful
· 12-06 22:32
🔴 30,000 times? This is the template for modern totalitarianism. Freedom of speech is just a joke to them—freezing accounts, confiscating devices, no trial... Are we really that far from this?
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AirdropATM
· 12-06 22:30
30,000 times? That number is really unbelievable; it seems like freedom of speech has become a luxury in the UK.
A guy in Britain got held overnight under anti-terrorism laws just for stuff he posted online. Cops took his phone, grabbed his laptop. Then his bank account? Frozen. Gone.
Here's the kicker - this happens over 30,000 times every year in the UK through something called Schedule 7 detentions. Thirty thousand.
You say the wrong thing online, suddenly you're a security threat. Your devices? Confiscated. Your money? Inaccessible. No trial, no jury, just bureaucratic power doing its thing.
It's getting harder to ignore how quickly speech restrictions are tightening up over there. The line between speaking your mind and getting labeled a problem keeps shifting.