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As reported in The Guardian, and on the blogger's own site, British writer Michael Abberton tweeted a link to a fake and/or satirical advertisement for the right wing UKIP party.
Not too long after he was "visited by two Cambridgeshire police officers on Saturday. He was told he had not committed any crimes, but was asked to delete some of his tweets, particularly a retweet of a faked poster giving 10 reasons to vote for Ukip, such as scrapping paid maternity leave and raising income tax for the poorest 88% of Britons."
All of this is strange enough on it's own, but be sure to check the comment stream on his blog, where any number of Anons claim that he made up the entire story, despite the police having already confirmed it!
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday May 13 2014, @02:52PM
Now is this a .uk thing where "was asked" in its literal meaning, or does it mean "delete them or we'll torture you by forcing you to eat British cuisine" polite description of being forced?
Locally you get this kind of interaction if "semi-lunatic" tries to make a police report about something thats not illegal, the lunatic is told suspects acts are not illegal, lunatic says she's going over to the suspect's house to confront him, cops realize a 5 minute good deed will eliminate an innocent possibly getting hurt and/or having to fill out the paperwork to haul the lunatic from the suspect's house if they just politely request for the lunatic.
This usually happens with noise complaints, where at least in my youth they couldn't give out noise tickets until 10pm, but they could politely ask, at which point we'd politely comply. You can't (or, couldn't...) give out a generic "disturbing the peace" ticket for activities which are considered normal like running a circular woodwork saw in a residential neighborhood at 9:59pm but at 10pm you could get ticketed. Or if they're cowards or weirdos or intimidated or whatever they can ask the cops to ask you at 9:30pm to cut it out a bit early.