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Old 04-26-2015, 08:46 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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The Big Government idiots in the UK are rapidly taking control of speech in any form. Here are a few examples, but there are many more;
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Freedom of speech no longer exists in Britain. The land that gave the world the Magna Carta, the Levellers, and John Stuart Mill—three of the key foundation stones of the modern conception of liberty—is now arresting and even jailing people simply for speaking their minds.

A man has been investigated by the police for a hashtag he used on Twitter. Seriously. Never mind speechcrime, or even tweetcrime—now we have hashtagcrime, the criminalisation even of those snarky, ironic asides people pepper the internet with. The man in question, Stephen Dodds, committed the sin of taking a photograph of two Muslims praying at Anfield, the home ground of Liverpool Football Club, and posting it on Twitter alongside the tweet: "Muslims praying at half-time at the match yesterday. #DISGRACE." That hashtag saw him become the victim of a furious Twitterstorm, the modern version of a tomato-wielding mob, and he was eventually reported to the cops. They investigated the matter for two weeks—two weeks!—before finally instructing Liverpool FC to take appropriate action against the evil hashtagger. Liverpool this week said it is deciding how to punish this man who dared to type the word "DISGRACE" on the internet.

The Slow Death of Free Speech in Britain (America, You're Next!) - Reason.com

 
Old 04-26-2015, 09:10 PM
 
Location: Aztlan
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Bad news porn.
 
Old 04-26-2015, 09:22 PM
 
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Quite the contrary... Free speech is alive and well in the UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC2VQjSgpso
 
Old 04-27-2015, 07:39 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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Just like Hitler did. Tell everyone what you plan to do and then do it.
 
Old 04-27-2015, 05:32 PM
 
Location: Los Awesome, CA
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Maybe they need to think about having a constitution over there.
 
Old 04-28-2015, 12:14 AM
 
Location: Earth
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Originally Posted by Roadking2003 View Post
The Big Government idiots in the UK are rapidly taking control of speech in any form. Here are a few examples, but there are many more;
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Freedom of speech no longer exists in Britain. The land that gave the world the Magna Carta, the Levellers, and John Stuart Mill—three of the key foundation stones of the modern conception of liberty—is now arresting and even jailing people simply for speaking their minds.

A man has been investigated by the police for a hashtag he used on Twitter. Seriously. Never mind speechcrime, or even tweetcrime—now we have hashtagcrime, the criminalisation even of those snarky, ironic asides people pepper the internet with. The man in question, Stephen Dodds, committed the sin of taking a photograph of two Muslims praying at Anfield, the home ground of Liverpool Football Club, and posting it on Twitter alongside the tweet: "Muslims praying at half-time at the match yesterday. #DISGRACE." That hashtag saw him become the victim of a furious Twitterstorm, the modern version of a tomato-wielding mob, and he was eventually reported to the cops. They investigated the matter for two weeks—two weeks!—before finally instructing Liverpool FC to take appropriate action against the evil hashtagger. Liverpool this week said it is deciding how to punish this man who dared to type the word "DISGRACE" on the internet.

The Slow Death of Free Speech in Britain (America, You're Next!) - Reason.com
Sounds like California
 
Old 04-28-2015, 12:19 AM
 
Location: Los Awesome, CA
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Sounds like California
No it doesn't, but nice try...
 
Old 04-28-2015, 06:00 AM
 
Location: Missouri, USA
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Yeah...the lack of mandatory niceness is definitely one of the things the U.S. got correct.
 
Old 04-28-2015, 06:09 AM
 
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Freedom of speech...hell, the UK is soon going to institute thought-control.

Miliband: Labour Would Outlaw Islamophobia - Breitbart

And you just know a lot of liberal think tanks here in the USA will be paying careful attention.
 
Old 04-28-2015, 05:36 PM
 
Location: Trieste
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Liverpool this week said it is deciding how to punish this man who dared to type the word "DISGRACE" on the internet.



why on Earth Liverpool should punish that guy?
they should rather punish the couple of made of Anfield a temporary mosque
I mean what's the matter of prayng Allah in a football stadium??go to your mosque or stay away!
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