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Britons are being summoned to the police station to answer for their tweeted opinions.

Higgins86 said:
If you can't attend events via public facilities because your government removed them, and you can't access them privately because your local police refuse to protect you whilst attending them then yes its banned lol. Not to mention with your first amendment why are local and federal governments removing books or ideas from libraries and schools?
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It isn't the government, it's the school board.

The individuals responsible for removing books like Maus need to be booted from the school board.

This type of behavior is bigoted and ignorant. Then again ... we are talking about places like Texas and Tennessee.
 
NatMorton said:
Re post 11, is this hate speech?

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That is not a threat of violence. It is not "hate speech" as I was using the term.
Some could see it as a Nazi-like threat to gays because of the rainbow flag and swastika.
I was thinking it looked more like the skinheads were trying to extend their recruiting to the gay community. LOL.
If I were using a social media platform I would expect stuff like swastikas to be possibly weeded out depending on platform rules.
 
Hamish Howl said:
By which you mean to say "No, the law doesn't support what the 'letter' says, and the entire thing is bullshit."
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Yes, it does. See post 245.

You really need to read these threads more carefully. It's been one clumsy mistake after another from you.
 
NatMorton said:
Yes, it does. See post 245.

You really need to read these threads more carefully. It's been one clumsy mistake after another from you.
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You make Baby Jesus cry when you lie like that.
 
PeacefulWarrior said:
That is not a threat of violence. It is not "hate speech" as I was using the term.
Some could see it as a Nazi-like threat to gays because of the rainbow flag and swastika.
I was thinking it looked more like the skinheads were trying to extend their recruiting to the gay community. LOL.
If I were using a social media platform I would expect stuff like swastikas to be possibly weeded out depending on platform rules.
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See post 11. A Brit was arrested for merely forwarding that meme.
 
SMTA said:
Best effort is only for deserving folks
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You're welcome to pretend you actually knew "woke" was not a term invented by the right, but we both know better. Your initial post in this thread demonstrated ignorance of the subject, and there's no getting around that.
 
NatMorton said:
Fair, but this would fit a pattern. A UK army vet was arrested over the summer for retweeting a parody of the newly designed pride flag.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Veteran is arrested 'for causing anxiety' for retweeting swastika meme

Darren Brady, 51, has slammed Hampshire Police for 'impeding his right to free speech' after he was placed into handcuffs on Friday at his home in Aldershot for sharing a meme.
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Again: Meh.
He was told how to avoid being arrested, and he failed to do the sensitivity course or whatever they told him to do. So: he was arrested as he was told he would be.
I dont give a crap, people posting swastikas online probably could REALLLY use some tight scrutiny, here in the US too.

My drawers are decidedly unbunched over this. 🤷‍♂️
 
NatMorton said:
Don't know that there is more woke silliness there than here, but controlling one's speech is more easily done there than here.
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We've got this thing about not tolerating hate speech and incitement, that you lot seem unduly relaxed about.
 
Manc Skipper said:
We've got this thing about not tolerating hate speech and incitement, that you lot seem unduly relaxed about.
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Tends to happen when you have never had to deal with the consequences. We’re still digging up bombs from the last time Europe allowed hate speech to go unchecked.
 
NatMorton said:
You're welcome to pretend you actually knew "woke" was not a term invented by the right, but we both know better. Your initial post in this thread demonstrated ignorance of the subject, and there's no getting around that.
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Better to be woke than an ignorant arsehole. Is it better to ignore institutional racism, since it doesn't blight your life, or to be aware of it and try to erase it to aid others?
 
Napoleon said:
So-called “anti-social behavior” has been a crime in the UK for ages.
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The term ASBO has become a byword for rowdy teenagers who terrorise communities.

They've been around for decades.
 
Peter said:
The term ASBO has become a byword for rowdy teenagers who terrorise communities.

They've been around for decades.
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Apparently it’s also a byword for hurting someone’s feelings on social media.
 
Napoleon said:
Apparently it’s also a byword for hurting someone’s feelings on social media.
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Except it’s not. Slander and hate speech are not “hurting feelings” they are both threatening, can harm someone’s livelihood and can escalate into something very dangerous. No one is getting summoned or arrested for simply hurting peoples feelings. If that was the case you’d be arresting thousands of football fans every weekend.
 
Manc Skipper said:
We've got this thing about not tolerating hate speech and incitement, that you lot seem unduly relaxed about.
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No, you've got this thing about woke ideology and have decided the police are needed to make sure no one questions it.

Gotta love our friends on the left. Ideas so good, they have to be mandatory.
 
Manc Skipper said:
Better to be woke than an ignorant arsehole. Is it better to ignore institutional racism, since it doesn't blight your life, or to be aware of it and try to erase it to aid others?
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You're welcome to your false choice, but I'll have none of it. I'll both respect human rights and call out authoritarianism where and when I see it.
 
NatMorton said:
You're welcome to pretend you actually knew "woke" was not a term invented by the right, but we both know better. Your initial post in this thread demonstrated ignorance of the subject, and there's no getting around that.
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The moronic right uses it for fake whining
It's pathetic pandering
 
ColdHardTruth said:
Private media platforms are NOT REQUIRED to allow hate speech.
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Did I say they were? Perhaps you were confused and do not know who actually enacts laws. :rolleyes:

ColdHardTruth said:
The right cannot seem to grasp this concept. Banning Nazis and other hateful scum does not violate the 1st Amendment.
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Actually it does if the government does the banning. Something you leftists can't seem to comprehend.

ColdHardTruth said:
The Fairness Doctrine was created to make sure that what the media printed was true. That is why Ronald Raegan helped Rupert Murdoch get rid of it.
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The Fairness Doctrine was created by Democrats specifically to silence dissension and it violated the First Amendment, which is why it was repealed.

ColdHardTruth said:
Limbaugh would never have been allowed to broadcast while the FD was in place because Rush Limbaugh never told the truth.
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Leftist truth? ROFL! That is why the Fairness Doctrine was deemed unconstitutional. Government cannot dictate the content of the media. Something you leftists can't seem to grasp.

ColdHardTruth said:
The biggest purveyors of bullshit are the right-wing propaganda channels, Faux, OANN, etc...

If you are viewing their content, even over the internet, then what you posted here is inaccurate.
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Oh please, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC are Democrat sycophant propagandists who couldn't recognize the truth if it ran them over. They are all leftist pieces of shit and the enemy of the people.
 
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