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CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 3 months agoNo you cannot. Assuming you’re not from the UK.
Stirring up racial hatred and geeing people up to burn down hotels holding refugees is not free speech.
timewarp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I specifically said things that aren’t threats. Just because you don’t like what they say doesn’t mean that it isn’t free speech.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 3 months ago
You sound like you get your knowledge of European and British laws from tabloid journalism
timewarp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Since when did the NYT become tabloid journalism?
nytimes.com/…/germany-pro-palestinian-protests.ht…
Or Wikipedia?
en.wikipedia.org/…/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingd…
Which says, “there is no general right to free speech in the UK.”
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
First one is about Germany, not UK. Secondly, you do realise wikipedia is unreliable, prone to edit wars and subject to those that have the most passion for a topic (like free speech “absolutists”/racists).
Can you find a UK example that you think overstepped the line?
I’m in the UK, critical of Israel and not been arrested yet…
It’s always interesting seeing distrorted American views of the UK.