A news correspondent warned that the government of the United Kingdom is actively cracking down on people who have shared footage of the recent wave of protests.
The British government is cracking down on people who share social media posts about the U.K. riots that it judges are 'likely to start racial hatred.' Riots have broken out across the U.K. in recent days over false rumors spread online that an asylum seeker was responsible for a mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event that left three girls dead and others wounded.
They are actually already bringing charges in relation to this sort of thing. So it’s a very, very clear message based in the harsh reality, if you like, that if you do this kind of thing you are potentially committing a criminal offense,' Thompson reiterated. 'They’ve got teams of people scouring the Internet looking for this sort of thing.
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