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Policing social media Moves to avert violence seen as free speech risk
The Guardian|November 26, 2022
Since being released from prison on licence last October, the drill artist Chinx (OS), from the Regent's Park estate in north-west London, has written 17 music tracks.
- Daniel Boffey
Policing social media Moves to avert violence seen as free speech risk

Each one could have sent the 24-year-old, who is desperate not to fall back into his past life after serving four years of an eight-year sentence for possession of a firearm with intent to harm, back to jail.

This week, the oversight board at Meta, the owner of Instagram, overruled a decision by the social media platform, made in January at the request of the Met police, to delete one of Chinx's tracks, Secrets not Safe, from the site. His Instagram account was also deleted. The board found, however, that Scotland Yard’s claim to Instagram that the track could lead to retaliatory violence” was not founded, adding basic principles of free speech, equality and transparency had been breached in allowing a police operation to censor a musician in secret.

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