So...Free Speech is Dead in the UK?

Cinegasm55

Cinegasm55

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Two major convictions have been issued this month in the UK. One was a "Hate Crime" conviction against a YouTuber who taught his girlfriend's pug to do a Nazi salute as a joke. He's facing a year in prison.

The other was a nineteen year-old woman who put a quote from a rap song on her Instagram with a racially insensitive word. She avoided jail time but she was ordered to pay a pretty big fine.

I'm starting to be really happy that my country has the First Amendment.
 
TheEight said:
The UK never technically had much in the way of free speech protections.
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They definitely never had anything resembling the First Amendment but they seem to have a massive tradition of free speech from Locke to Mill, albeit Milton's Areopagitica fell on deaf ears despite its eloquence.
 
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