• LordWarfire@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    There is no equivalent of the first amendment in the UK - we don’t have the right to freedom of speech in that sense but do have freedom of expression (from the Human Rights Act if nowhere else).

    It is an offence to say hate speech or commit certain offences against public order (which the police claimed in this case).

    Effective the UK operates on all speech is legal unless it is legislated against, which hate speech is.