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**Not really.** The UK figure is based on a real reported number, but the chart is misleading because it mixes different countries, different time periods, different legal categories, and sometimes “cases,” “detentions,” “prosecutions,” or “arrests” as if they were the same thing. A PA fact-check found the viral chart has **no sources or timeframes**, and that the international figures are “clearly not comparable.” ([PA Media][1]) | Chart claim | What I could trace | Why it’s misleading | | ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **UK: 12,183** | This appears to come from *The Times* FOI data: 37 police forces in England & Wales recorded **12,183 arrests in 2023** under Communications Act s.127 and Malicious Communications Act s.1. ([PA Media][1]) | These are not simply “social media posts”; the offences cover electronic communications broadly, and reporting said they can include phone calls, emails, letters, and hoax calls. Arrests also are not convictions; Hansard cited **1,119** convictions/sentencings from those arrests. ([hansard.parliament.uk][2]) | | **Belarus: 6,205** | I did **not** find a solid source for 6,205. The closest credible number is Freedom House saying Belarus had **6,386 arrests in 2023**, with the majority related to online activities, libel/defamation, or “extremist” materials. ([Freedom House][3]) | That is political repression broadly connected to online activity, not a clean “social media posts” arrest count. | | **Germany: 3,500** | This appears to come from a CBS/60 Minutes report saying **one Lower Saxony hate-speech unit** works on about **3,500 cases a year**. ([CBS News][4]) | It is **cases**, not arrests, and only one of 16 German online hate units—not a national arrest count. | | **China: 1,500** | China’s Ministry of Public Security said over **1,500 suspects** were arrested in a campaign against online rumours that began in Dec. 2023. ([Xinhua News][5]) | This was a specific short campaign, not a full annual national count of all online-speech arrests. | | **Turkey: 500** | I did **not** find a credible source for “500.” Freedom House instead cites Turkey’s Interior Ministry saying **132,310 social media users** were found to have committed online “acts of terrorism” in 2023, of whom **9,314 were detained**. ([Freedom House][6]) | The chart’s 500 figure appears unsupported and may be a severe undercount or a different category. | | **Russia: 400** | PA traced a similar “400” figure to an old 2017 Agora report on **411 criminal prosecutions/threats** against internet users. More recent 2023 Net Freedom Project data recorded **882 criminal prosecutions** for online publications/posts/reposts. ([PA Media][1]) | Old data, different metric, and post-Ukraine-war Russia is not captured by the 400 figure. | So: **the internal arithmetic in the tweet works only if you accept the chart’s numbers**: China + Russia + Turkey = 2,400, far below 12,183; the rest of the top 10 total 13,009, close to the UK figure. But the comparison itself is not valid. A fairer conclusion is: **England & Wales did record a surprisingly high number of arrests under broad communications laws in 2023, but the viral “Britain leads the world for social media-post arrests” ranking is not supported by comparable evidence.** Freedom House also downgraded the UK for increased online-speech charges, but still rated the UK “Free” online at 76/100, while China was rated 9/100 “Not Free” and Russia 17/100 “Not Free.” ([Freedom House][7]) [1]: https://pa.media/blogs/fact-check/fact-check-international-data-on-online-comments-arrests-not-comparable/ "Fact check: International data on ‘online comments’ arrests not comparable - PA Media" [2]: https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-07-17/debates/F807CB70-D90D-4A19-9433-99539B7CF21F/OnlineCommunicationOffenceArrests "Online Communication Offence Arrests - Hansard - UK Parliament" [3]: https://freedomhouse.org/country/belarus/freedom-net/2024 "Belarus: Freedom on the Net 2024 Country Report | Freedom House" [4]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/germany-online-hate-speech-prosecution-60-minutes/ " Germany is prosecuting online trolls. Here's how the country is fighting hate speech on the internet. - CBS News" [5]: https://english.news.cn/20240412/f4000df8299f4599b249ee9f45614535/c.html " China arrests over 1,500 for illegal acts related to cyberspace rumors -Xinhua " [6]: https://freedomhouse.org/country/turkey/freedom-net/2023 "Turkey: Freedom on the Net 2023 Country Report | Freedom House" [7]: https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-kingdom/freedom-net/2025 "United Kingdom: Freedom on the Net 2025 Country Report | Freedom House"

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Since nostr is not reliable (best effort only), it should not be used for must-be-available data.

Great app!

Europe is just not so important.

I added a few feature requests in github. Would love to see this get a little refined.

Brilliant idea

Consider Linux.

Follow /block people is a bad basis in the space of visibility shaping.

Only a small subset of each

Wow....