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So #labour and Kier Starmer have succeeded in scaring UK 𝕏 users into silence with 118 prison sentences handed out some of which are related to people making posts on Social Media. In the good old days, you could talk bollocks in a pub nowadays, you'll get two years for making an inaccurate post. 
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@dick_turpin Your post is inaccurate. There have been no new laws on this since the election. Online safety act is from last year. I wonder who came up with that.
Musk could be guilty of such crimes himself.
@dick_turpin @dick_turpin Well the courts will act based on existing laws that were not added by this government. How do you think the previous lot would have handled this? Some of them have gone very quiet.
I've not heard of anyone being banged up for chatting down the pub.
'How do you think the previous lot would have handled this ?'
Funnily enough, the Tories handled the 2011 riots in exactly the same way (rapid prosecutions). A tactic that Kier Starmer has successfully re-used.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jul/03/riot-prosecutions-sentences-keir-starmer
@andyc @dick_turpin Exactly and they enacted the online bill. If Starmer had done less he'd be called 'weak' by the right, so he can't win. Politics is not a zero sum game for us citizens. We all want a peaceful and just society.
I think the pertinent point here is why can't they shift, recruit resources and cut the time for asylum claims to reduce the massive waiting list which, in turn, leads to the need to house people on a temporary basis until their claim is ruled on.
Source: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/asylum-backlog
Sorry - by 'they' I lay the blame at the previous incumbents, not Labour necessarily.