""We were absolutely amazed when we first heard about it, when our member contacted us to tell us that an officer from Thames Valley Police had turned up at her house when she was undergoing cancer treatment to say that the police had received a complaint about a Facebook post. "He was pretty clear that it wasn't unlawful, but nonetheless, he was there to extract an apology from her, it is absolutely unbelievable.""
""It's as though the police are now school prefects whose job it is to ask people to apologise, to diffuse online spats. "Except it's more sinister than that, because the policeman said to her, if you don't apologise, I'm afraid you'll have to come with me to the station for a chat. "It's like a kind of comic, but at the same time deeply sinister, it's Carry On 1984.""
Thames Valley Police visited Deborah Anderson, an American cancer patient living in the UK, after receiving a complaint about a Facebook post and sought an apology. The visiting officer reportedly said the post was not unlawful yet pressed for an apology and warned she might be taken to the station if she refused. The Free Speech Union criticized the police response as excessive and compared it to authoritarian behaviour, helped Anderson submit a Subject Access Request, and alleges police deleted records of the case. The specific content of the Facebook comment prompting the complaint remains unknown.
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