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With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech
Greenwald, Glenn
http://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/06/police-increasingly-monitoring-criminalizing-online-speech/Date Written: 2015-01-06 Publisher: The Intercept Year Published: 2015 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX17126 Criminal cases for online political speech are now commonplace in the UK, notorious for its hostility to basic free speech and press rights. As The Independent's James Bloodworth reported last week, "around 20,000 people in Britain have been investigated in the past three years for comments made online." Subject Headings |