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Scottish Police Now Monitoring Social Media For ‘Offensive Comments’

Alex Griswold Media Reporter
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A tweet from the verified Twitter account of Police Scotland indicates that the department is now actively monitoring social media to find and investigate offensive comments.

Needless to say, Twitter users were less than happy to hear that they were being actively monitored by a government agency for something that wasn’t even a crime:

The tweet comes a week after an English police department tweeted that they were investigating an offensive tweet about a fatal truck crash in Glasgow, the capital of Scotland, which has one of the highest murder rates in Europe.

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