No freedom of speech in the UK

[TroglocratsRdumb]

We can no longer say that Britain is a free country

Laws criminalising certain opinions are now having a chilling effect on freedom of expression in the UK

www.telegraph.co.uk

Story by David Frost, The Telegraph
(snippet)
“Those crazy socialists in Britain are putting people in prison for posting on social networks”, says Argentine President Javier Milei. Of course, there is a bit more to it than that. But he’s got the gist right. Perhaps all those worthy lawyers and distinguished members of the Labour Party who fret so much about the image of this country might reflect on what their current behaviour is doing to it.

The 2003 Communications Act criminalises “grossly offensive” messages, even sent in private, and whether anyone reads them or not. Sentencing is tougher if messages are motivated by “hate”. People have been given prison sentences for (admittedly unpleasant) private Whatsapp messages.

... the 1986 Public Order Act, which, broadly, makes it a crime to cause someone “alarm” or “distress” through writing or speech that is “abusive” or (in some circumstances) just “insulting”. It also criminalises messages likely, or intended, to “stir up” hatred on grounds of race, religion, or sexual orientation. In these latter areas, the Attorney General’s consent to prosecute is required, as a safeguard, but many such charges have been brought in recent days, so it looks as if the new Attorney General has given a very broad sign off. Perhaps the shadow attorney general would like to investigate, if it is not too much trouble?

... Online Safety Act. This creates a new concept of “false communication” and makes it illegal to send a message known to be false and intended to cause “psychological or physical harm”. Newspapers and broadcasters are exempt, but individuals are not. Yes, “fake news” is now a crime in Britain, and people are being prosecuted for it.

...... The Labour Party has now scrapped the law protecting freedom of speech at universities, and is musing about controlling social media further. The legal establishment seems to have a particular animus against free comment in the media

We are heading towards a real crisis. There has always been some censorship in Britain, more’s the pity, but until recently it was artistic and cultural, not political. We prided ourselves on being a free country in which we could speak freely. We simply cannot say that now. We are, in fact, all vulnerable. Say the wrong thing in the wrong way at the wrong moment, and any of us might find the police at our door.

Comment:
Can you imagine the Labour Nazi assholes reading the posts on USMB?
Their tiny heads would explode lol.
Freedom of Speech is essential for a free society.
Freedom of Speech is the first thing that is crushed under a tyrannical government.
Let people hear and read everything and then use their own judgement as to what to take seriously.
Ironically it is the tyrannical governments that lie the most.

 

[The Duke]

We can no longer say that Britain is a free country

Laws criminalising certain opinions are now having a chilling effect on freedom of expression in the UK

www.telegraph.co.uk

Story by David Frost, The Telegraph
(snippet)
“Those crazy socialists in Britain are putting people in prison for posting on social networks”, says Argentine President Javier Milei. Of course, there is a bit more to it than that. But he’s got the gist right. Perhaps all those worthy lawyers and distinguished members of the Labour Party who fret so much about the image of this country might reflect on what their current behaviour is doing to it.

The 2003 Communications Act criminalises “grossly offensive” messages, even sent in private, and whether anyone reads them or not. Sentencing is tougher if messages are motivated by “hate”. People have been given prison sentences for (admittedly unpleasant) private Whatsapp messages.

... the 1986 Public Order Act, which, broadly, makes it a crime to cause someone “alarm” or “distress” through writing or speech that is “abusive” or (in some circumstances) just “insulting”. It also criminalises messages likely, or intended, to “stir up” hatred on grounds of race, religion, or sexual orientation. In these latter areas, the Attorney General’s consent to prosecute is required, as a safeguard, but many such charges have been brought in recent days, so it looks as if the new Attorney General has given a very broad sign off. Perhaps the shadow attorney general would like to investigate, if it is not too much trouble?

... Online Safety Act. This creates a new concept of “false communication” and makes it illegal to send a message known to be false and intended to cause “psychological or physical harm”. Newspapers and broadcasters are exempt, but individuals are not. Yes, “fake news” is now a crime in Britain, and people are being prosecuted for it.

...... The Labour Party has now scrapped the law protecting freedom of speech at universities, and is musing about controlling social media further. The legal establishment seems to have a particular animus against free comment in the media

We are heading towards a real crisis. There has always been some censorship in Britain, more’s the pity, but until recently it was artistic and cultural, not political. We prided ourselves on being a free country in which we could speak freely. We simply cannot say that now. We are, in fact, all vulnerable. Say the wrong thing in the wrong way at the wrong moment, and any of us might find the police at our door.

Comment:
Can you imagine the Labour Nazi assholes reading the posts on USMB?
Their tiny heads would explode lol.
Freedom of Speech is essential for a free society.
Freedom of Speech is the first thing that is crushed under a tyrannical government.
Let people hear and read everything and then use their own judgement as to what to take seriously.
Ironically it is the tyrannical governments that lie the most.

Yeah, they're hosed. Barring a revolution/8th Crusade, their citizens are in a bad way.

 

[Thunderbird]

Hard to believe free speech is disappearing in Britain. Freedom was at the heart of liberalism. Freedom was cherished during the Enlightenment.

Will we have to get a new name for the Free World? Maybe the Dying World?

 

[The Duke]

Hard to believe free speech is disappearing in Britain. Freedom was at the heart of liberalism. Freedom was cherished during the Enlightenment.

Will we have to get a new name for the Free World? Maybe the Dying World?

The west is apparently self-immolating.

 

[jackflash]

We can no longer say that Britain is a free country

Laws criminalising certain opinions are now having a chilling effect on freedom of expression in the UK

www.telegraph.co.uk

Story by David Frost, The Telegraph
(snippet)
“Those crazy socialists in Britain are putting people in prison for posting on social networks”, says Argentine President Javier Milei. Of course, there is a bit more to it than that. But he’s got the gist right. Perhaps all those worthy lawyers and distinguished members of the Labour Party who fret so much about the image of this country might reflect on what their current behaviour is doing to it.

The 2003 Communications Act criminalises “grossly offensive” messages, even sent in private, and whether anyone reads them or not. Sentencing is tougher if messages are motivated by “hate”. People have been given prison sentences for (admittedly unpleasant) private Whatsapp messages.

... the 1986 Public Order Act, which, broadly, makes it a crime to cause someone “alarm” or “distress” through writing or speech that is “abusive” or (in some circumstances) just “insulting”. It also criminalises messages likely, or intended, to “stir up” hatred on grounds of race, religion, or sexual orientation. In these latter areas, the Attorney General’s consent to prosecute is required, as a safeguard, but many such charges have been brought in recent days, so it looks as if the new Attorney General has given a very broad sign off. Perhaps the shadow attorney general would like to investigate, if it is not too much trouble?

... Online Safety Act. This creates a new concept of “false communication” and makes it illegal to send a message known to be false and intended to cause “psychological or physical harm”. Newspapers and broadcasters are exempt, but individuals are not. Yes, “fake news” is now a crime in Britain, and people are being prosecuted for it.

...... The Labour Party has now scrapped the law protecting freedom of speech at universities, and is musing about controlling social media further. The legal establishment seems to have a particular animus against free comment in the media

We are heading towards a real crisis. There has always been some censorship in Britain, more’s the pity, but until recently it was artistic and cultural, not political. We prided ourselves on being a free country in which we could speak freely. We simply cannot say that now. We are, in fact, all vulnerable. Say the wrong thing in the wrong way at the wrong moment, and any of us might find the police at our door.

Comment:
Can you imagine the Labour Nazi assholes reading the posts on USMB?
Their tiny heads would explode lol.
Freedom of Speech is essential for a free society.
Freedom of Speech is the first thing that is crushed under a tyrannical government.
Let people hear and read everything and then use their own judgement as to what to take seriously.
Ironically it is the tyrannical governments that lie the most.

The statist left marxinazis in the UK most likely view our USMB the same way Christians view the antichrist. No other way to say it; USMB the NEW STATUE OF SWEET LIBERTY!!!

 

[1srelluc]

They are subjects and act like it.

 

[Blackrook]

We had good reason to rebel against the British.