Countries With Most Online Arrests

Countries with the most arrests for online comments: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 12,183+ 🇧🇾 Belarus: 6,205+ 🇩🇪 Germany: 3,500+ 🇨🇳 China: ~1,500 🇹🇷 Turkey (Türkiye): ~500 🇷🇺 Russia: ~400 🇵🇱 Poland: ~300 🇹🇭 Thailand: ~258 🇧🇷 Brazil: ~200 🇸🇾 Syria: ~146 🇮🇳 India: ~100 🇮🇷 Iran: ~100 🇫🇷 France: ~54 🇺🇸 United States: ~50 🇻🇳 Vietnam: ~45 🇪🇬 Egypt: ~20 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: ~15 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: ~13 🇭🇺 Hungary: ~10

A statistics-style post lists countries and estimated numbers of arrests for online comments, with the United Kingdom and Belarus far ahead of the other countries. The joke is the absurdly high ranking of arrests for speech online, making the image useful as a reaction to censorship, authoritarianism, or being afraid to comment freely.

• @eternalclassic / 76340 2025-09-27