Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’
timewarp@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoI 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.
Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’
timewarp@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoI 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 5 weeks ago
You sound like you get your knowledge of European and British laws from tabloid journalism
timewarp@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
John Richard here is definitely an American. He doesn’t understand the difference between “free speech” and “freedom from hatred”
Those of us in truly modern countries enjoy the latter and are very happy to have it.
It’s a common thing in backward-thinking, religious countries to think that the former is better.