Don’t forget about social media posts. In the UK, people are being jailed for those today.

Imagine if they used your past post history against you.

No they're not. An incredibly small number of people might get arrested if policing cocks up. Nobody is being jailed.

iso1631 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

In the US if you make a social media post threatening the president you are breaking the law and can be sent to jail just as much as if you said it

	▲	zugi 43 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		These are both true statements, but there's a huge difference in scale. The UK arrests 12,000 people per year for social media posts ( https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-kingdom/freedom-net/... ), for a broad range of vague reasons including causing offense. That's far more than much larger totalitarian nations like Russia and China. The US arrests folks for direct online threats of violence - a much higher bar.
	▲	ambicapter an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Link?