Agreed. At minimum hate speech laws are troubling because of the question: who gets to decide what constitutes hate speech? It's also tied with this ridiculous notion that words can equal violence. Ultimately, once one equates words with violence it's very easy to justify actual violence in response...

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From the Reuters article: > “Every man and their dog should be smashing fuck out Britannia Hotel,” the judge quotes one of Parlour’s posts from early August as saying. > Responding to another user who said, “I’m down if you are lad”, the judge quoted Parlour as writing: “start about...

I don't think he would like my response to him.

Fat fatty FUPA of a person

Whoever defines “hate” owns the discourse.

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Why did it cut out right at the climax… video editors these days should be locked up…

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/clipped-video-mans-sentencing-over-social-media-comments-is-misleading-2024-08-16/ Britain is still fucking nuts, but…

Game of thrones vibes. Scary

"Hate speech" is a made up term. And criminalizing it is absurd and an obvious reach into censorship. Hate is an emotion. Try a grammatical substitution to test its validity. "Emotional speech". Criminalizing it means targeting speech based on the speaker’s perceived emotional state and punis...

Freedom of speech means you have the freedom to say things that are approved by the state, bro.

This is unbelievable. His own words could be interpreted as hate speech too.

Now action must be taken We don’t need the key We’ll break in… Yes I know my enemies They’re the teachers who taught me to fight me Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite All of which are American dreams All of which are American dre...

Is it hateful to say that guy looks super queer in his powdery wig?

Fuck the UK legal system (not the people).

This is unbelievable!!!

TOTALITARIANISM IS HERE. “ there can be no doubt you were inciting others to violence” What?! Yes, there can be doubt. A whole lot of doubt that that’s not what the person intended. You could act like a human and say maybe the person meant with the words they spoke actually were—that they ...

Tell me again about Western Values evaporating in the West.

How pathetic. Can the UK offer no resistance to this kind of tyranny?

wtf

More true than funny https://npub15dccx7yuxu6gs5ak4elylwxzgxucxy6qdm3ztlfmluwfr7n2u9hq4ug5zv.blossom.band/e87cf6f9a048a6cfb0fa5755efb276f90af0f691ef91ff0c656951de343adb7f.gif

is this real?

I love those old Monty Python sketches 😅

This shit is insane. Folks in the UK are fucked!

Why cop out and not upload the complete video?! It’s a bit different in context, wouldn’t you say? That’s TwiX tactics. We don’t need this on Nostr.