After years of prosecuting people for their social media activity, the U.K. government says it will stop wasting time "investigating legal social media posts."
This policy change, which the U.K. Home Office announced on Tuesday, was greeted as a free speech victory (even if the move is long overdue). However, without further reforms, censorship in the U.K. will continue, warns Preston Byrne, a senior fellow at the London-based Adam Smith Institute. That's because the U.K. still has a "legal regime that allows the state to police opinions it deems contrary to its interests," he wrote on X.
