Britain: Free Speech is Dying in Its Birthplace
By Emma R. 1 February 2019
Britain is the home of parliamentary democracy and classical liberalism – but that legacy has been fading rapidly lately as the British government has taken it upon itself to police words.
In 2003 the Communications Act banned all online posts that cause “annoyance, inconvenience or needles anxiety to another.â€
And since then, things have only gotten worse.
In 2016 the British police detained and questioned over 3,300 people for posting “hate speech†online. That was a rise of nearly 50 percent from 2014 to 2015.
Read more at: https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/02/britain-free-speech-is-dying-in-its-birthplace/
I know of one forum where if one made certain remarks, you know, about the situation in England, they often scrubbed/deleted those remarks promptly. I always thought it was forum rules, maybe it was something more. Caution about law and order.
