Breitbart By Kurt Zindulka
In vindication of U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s warnings of encroaching authoritarianism in Britain and Europe, a report has found that hundreds of people in the United Kingdom have been charged under the 2023 Online Safety Act, including for spreading “fake news.”
According to Crown Prosecution Service data obtained by The Telegraph in a Freedom of Information request, 292 people in Britain have been charged with “speech crimes” under the Online Safety Act passed into law by the previous Tory government.
Those charged include 23 for ‘illegal false communications’, often referred to as “fake news” offences. The controversial clause banned the spreading of so-called disinformation that could lead to “non-trivial psychological or physical harm”. A conviction under the legislation comes with a maximum penalty of 51 weeks in prison.
The report found that several were charged with the offence following the mass stabbing attack at a children’s Taylor Swift dance party in Southport for spreading claims online that the attacker was a Muslim migrant…
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