Police in the United Kingdom made nearly 10,000 arrests last year for online posts deemed “offensive,” according to newly released data — a staggering figure that equates to 26 people a day hauled in for what amounts to digital wrongthink. Using decades-old laws like the Communications Act 2003 and the Malicious Communications Act 1988, police forces across the country aggressively targeted speech that was not criminal threat or incitement, but simply “insulting,” “grossly offensive,” or even sarcastic. Some police departments, like Cumbria Constabulary, carried out arrests at rates rivaling authoritarian regimes, while others barely enforced the same laws — creating a patchwork of speech zones where your freedom depends entirely on your postcode. With 90 percent of real crimes going unsolved nationwide, many Britons are asking why officers are policing jokes instead of criminals.

This trend is far more than a free-speech controversy — it’s a preview of the global censorship architecture foretold in Scripture. Revelation 13 describes a world where speech, belief, and behavior are tightly monitored and punished by a centralized authority. What we are witnessing in the UK is the normalization of state-controlled speech, where the government determines which words are permissible and which are criminal. Once a society accepts that subjective “offense” is grounds for arrest, it is only one step away from silencing dissent entirely. The Beast system will not suddenly appear overnight; it is constructed piece by piece, law by law, policy by policy — and the UK’s digital policing regime shows just how quickly a free nation can drift into soft authoritarianism.

SOURCE: Reclaim the Net