Where the UK, Europe, the US, Canada and Australia publish convictions for offences involving online or electronic messages — with the caveats.
These rows are not like-for-like. Each country defines offences differently, and no country publishes a count of convictions for social media posts alone — the official series cover all electronic messages, or speech offences whether online or not.
Communications Act 2003 s127; Malicious Communications Act 1988 s1; Online Safety Act 2023 communications offences
Communications Act 2003 s127; Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021
Communications Act 2003 s127; Malicious Communications (NI) Order 1988
StGB §130 incitement; §185 insult; §186–188 defamation
Provocation, defamation and insult (Law of 29 July 1881); online harassment
Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020
No federal speech-conviction series (First Amendment); federal threats under 18 USC 875
Criminal Code s319 hate propaganda; s372 indecent communications
Criminal Code s474.17 using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend
No figure on this page is estimated. A count appears only once it can be read straight from the publisher's own table. See also Compare countries.