There are a lot of concerning things in the UK in the wake of the past week's events, but I'm not sure chatter on fox news would be my information source.

There is discussion whether the UK government should continue to use X (no); the anomalies between the sentences handed out for violent, racist thuggery and those handed to Just Stop Oil peaceful protesters; and, not reported at all as part of recent events, the disparity between court cases and convictions for domestic violence (two years to get to court is not unusual with a 1% conviction rate) and the recent violent riots where perpetrators appeared in court and were sentenced within a week of the offence.

The UK saw legislation during the pandemic restricting civil liberties and the right to protest and I was interested to see how the government would be dealing with these current riots and protests. We had mass peaceful protests against racism here with few arrests following the riots. It looks like we will be allowed to make the "right" kind of protests.

Regarding inciting hatred and violence in social media posts, this is part of wider legislation about inciting or encouraging hatred and violence in any context; there are also discussions about social media as a form of publishing and whether the owners of social media platforms should be held accountable to same legislation as other forms of publishing (The Crown V Musk should be interesting).

Other commentators suggest that it would be more useful to address fundamental social and economic factors creating inequality than tinkering with the already sprawling Online Safety Act, although my favourite article by far is the "Farage Riots".