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UK police are arresting over 12,000 each year for ‘offensive’ speech. That’s over 30 arrests per day.

So I thought I’d compile a list of UK citizens who have been visited, investigated or arrested by police for speech crime.

This list is by no means comprehensive! In January 2019, Harry Miller was contacted by Humberside Police for retweeting a poem that was interpreted as ‘transphobic’. The officer admitted that no crime had been committed but allegedly said: ‘We need to check your thinking’.

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Why are so many still trying to defend Mermaids?

This is a group that promotes a dangerous form of gender identity ideology to children, claims puberty blockers are harmless and reversible, & encourages breast binding for young girls without parental consent.

[1/9] Even now, when it is revealed that one of Mermaids’s trustees is an apologist for paedophilia, many of its supporters are doubling down.

This is what is known as “belief perseverance”.

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