{"id":78130,"date":"2025-08-03T06:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T06:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78130"},"modified":"2025-08-03T06:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T06:37:24","slug":"gangs-promoting-small-boats-crossings-on-social-media-face-jail-under-new-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/03\/gangs-promoting-small-boats-crossings-on-social-media-face-jail-under-new-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Gangs promoting small boats crossings on social media face jail under new crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48532\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/UK-ad-for-boat-migrants-300x269.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/UK-ad-for-boat-migrants-300x269.png 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/UK-ad-for-boat-migrants-360x322.png 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/UK-ad-for-boat-migrants.png 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gangs promoting\u00a0<a title=\"Almost 900 migrants cross the Channel in one day alone\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/bulletin\/news\/uk-migrants-crossing-channel-small-boats-b2799762.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">small boat Channel crossings\u00a0<\/a>on\u00a0<a title=\"Age verification checks for porn sites aren\u2019t working \u2013 but there\u2019s a way to fix it\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tech\/online-safety-act-age-checks-porn-b2798234.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">social media\u00a0<\/a>will face up to five years in prison as part of a new crackdown announced by the government.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/gangs-promoting-small-boats-crossings-on-social-media-face-jail-under-new-crackdown\/ar-AA1JNlWb?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=688ef801c74b45de9f27a3ded4ceb1a0&amp;ei=15\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Gangs promoting\u00a0small boat Channel crossings\u00a0on\u00a0social media\u00a0will face up to five years in prison as part of a new crackdown announced by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/UK-ad-for-boat-migrants.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78131,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78130\/revisions\/78131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}