>The Government is committed to upholding free speech, and legislation is already in place to protect these fundamental rights. However, this freedom cannot be an excuse to cause harm or spread hatred.
Current UK legislation values free speech and enables people who wish to engage in debate to do so - regardless of whether others agree with the views which are being expressed. Everyone has a right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). This is a qualified right however, which means that it can be restricted for certain purposes to the extent necessary in a democratic society. This means that free speech is not absolute.
Importantly, the law ensures that people are protected against criminal activity including threatening, menacing or obscene behaviour both on and offline. The Government is clear that hate crime and hate speech are not acceptable in our society, and anyone seeking to use freedom of speech as an excuse to break the law should still face the full force of the law.
A hate crime is any criminal offence, for example assault or malicious communications, which is perceived to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based on a person’s actual or perceived race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity. The Government takes hate crime very seriously, which is why we published the hate crime action plan (Action Against Hate: The UK Government’s plan for tackling hate crime) in July 2016. It is also worth noting that section 29J of the Public Order Act 1986, for example, states that the offence of inciting religious hatred, does not restrict or prohibit discussions, criticism or expressions of antipathy, dislike, ridicule, insult or abuse of particular religions.
In this way, the Government believes the law strikes the right balance between protecting citizens and protecting their right to free expression.
>Everyone has a right to freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). This is a qualified right however, which means that it can be restricted for certain purposes to the extent necessary in a democratic society. This means that free speech is not absolute.
>it can be restricted for certain purposes to the extent necessary in a democratic society. >democratic society.
>This means that free speech is not absolute. >democratic society.
They've abdicated the right to rule when they engage in oppression of the citizenry.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
And Corbyn isn't even prime minister yet. This is the 'conservative' party. Just you wait cunts, if you think it is Anarcho-Tyranny now, just you wait.
We may soon have no choice but to start using the Lima Oscar India Charlie.
Carter Reed
ll fucking foreigners anyone who as actually been on a UK train has seen this ad and it is a load of shit, 99% of the shit on Sup Forums is memes
Isaiah Roberts
whatever you say big brother
Jordan Howard
thanks for posting this, signed
Christopher Williams
Bravo oscar charlie henry over.
Kevin Hughes
You fuckers need to start killing all the politicians and brown ppl.
The fuck is wrong with you? Your country has been invaded and usurped.
Parker Turner
What's wrong with the UK? Mother fucker we're under attack right now.
Samuel Hughes
UK is so fucking cucked. Theresa May and Boris Johnson are idiots. You might as well just vote for Jeremy Corbyn and get free shit.
Anthony Adams
you dont have free speech. they threw some guy in jail over the hit dog video
Brody Barnes
pretty funny though that he thinks austria is better when david irving was jailed there for 3 years for opinions.
Lincoln Gonzalez
>under attack Shut the fuck up, wh*Toids. The US belongs to Mexico now. Pack your begs, you're being shipped back to your caves in e*Rope.
Ryder Robinson
Reminder that all Yurocucks are pleb genestock who never tasted true liberty.
Angel Anderson
>meme nigger >turkroach wh*te you're not even in the us faggot.
Gabriel Butler
It's a shoop.
Josiah Barnes
>y-y-y-youre not even in t-t-the us!!!!
Fucking pathetic. You'll be sent back in drones by 2030, and eventually go extinct in 2075.
Jacob Miller
We elected Trump. Race war is next step just in case.
Jaxon Gonzalez
Does this mean no more yorups on Sup Forums
Luke Wright
How hard is it to immigrate to the US im rapidly losing all hope for this country. me 5 years ago would never believe i would say this.
Logan Hughes
Good, now that you've dropped the fagflag, you can suckstart a shotgun.
Jose Morgan
Fucking hopefully
Elijah Gray
You couldn't carry my balls in a wheelbarrow,you feckless nigger beast.
Logan Parker
The US supreme court would beg to differ. Stop saying you have "free speech" bongs, you are making us look bad by association. You have "diet free speech" or "free speech lite"
Ok, Constable, whatever you say Make sure to add my reply when you report back to MI6
Xavier Allen
agreed we have to be very careful what we say about immigrants or go to jail for wrong think. They want us to bend over and accept the destruction that is coming or go to jail.
Juan Hernandez
>Lauren Southern gets arrested for her beliefs >literal political prisoner >only normie-friendly person relentlessly pushing pro-white messaging >pretty enough >Spreading work of SA genocide >Sup Forumsacks, jews, shills and incels hate her
We're doomed.
Xavier Robinson
>t. boris johnson
Caleb Lewis
>giving us your jobs I've fired more niggers in the last 3 years than shits i've taken. You niggers don't work for shit.
Chase Hughes
Godspeed
Cooper Peterson
good. Free speech is degenerate anyways..
Mason Gomez
Your population/working class hasn't become redpilled yet. You will get your populist leader at some point in the future, but for some reason the majority of your population still does stuff like this : rabblevid.com/video/video-shows-chaos-london-bar-multiple-attacks/ , look at around 36 seconds , a guy probably one of the few redpilled in there says "Fucking Muslim Cunts" and some dude who is hiding a bar because people are being stabbed and run over says "Dont say that idiot , its not muslims". Nah it is, and people are still not accepting of that yet.
Dont worry though, when the populist wave hits you guys, like it will the rest of Europe, it will come crashing down.
I'm not black, you dumbfuck pigskin. And quit with your fucking lies, its making me cringe. This country belongs to the BROWN man and theres literally nothing you can do about it.
Hudson Adams
Britain has always been a commie country. They got rid of war hero Churchill for a man who said the only way to avoid future wars is to mix the races.
>country getting full of mudslims >someone that isnt mudslim blowhimself up >people blame the mudslims >??? >profit
Isaac Carter
>theres literally nothing you can do about it. As an American, I simply disagree. There are always lots of ways to solve problems. You need to learn to have a "can-do" attitude.
If you kill them then they can never know how wrong they were. The only victory comes in argument.
Force must be used only to counter force, that the rational position might prevail.
Luis Myers
>implying he wants kids to voice unpopular opinions.
Alexander Ward
My great grandmother must be rolling in her fucking grave right now. God damn, I feel genuinely sorry for you bongs. It must be horrible watching your country transform into a police state dystopia ridden by censorship that your country's most famous author had warned the people of. But it's not like we don't have problems here, in just 2 days our schools are going to force our children to participate in an anti gun propaganda assembly which barely differs from the two minutes hate. RIP Britbongs, you had the world by the balls once, and now your government is jerking off the world and cupping it's balls while putting it's own country in chastity.
Nathaniel Lewis
>"which is perceived to be motivated by hostility or prejudice" Perceived by whom?
Please tell me this is fake. If not, burgers have to annex britain immediately. Liberate Britain.
James Ramirez
brazil is more like it if you look at the current roster of help-less cunt-clowns
Cooper Watson
But what evidence is there that the reigning Guardianistas won't just crack down harder, and reign in terror until a full-blown collapse wipes out their society completely?
Adam Long
the irony of americlaps posting stuff like this after 2001
Henry King
>However, this freedom cannot be an excuse to cause harm or spread hatred Translation, you have the right to government approved speech only, free speech with an exclusionary caveat of an entirely subjective term such as 'hatred', is no kind free speech at all, people do terrible things, respond with rational criticism, criticism that is then deemed 'hateful' by the powers that be, result, no free speech.
Anthony Campbell
I never said we are truly free. We going down the same rabbit hole. We just have more rights for (((THEM))) to take away so we have a little longer than you to enjoy the last of our freedoms. Don't worry though, our second amendment rights are one more false flag mass shooting away from being stripped from us, you just watch.
Ian Parker
Thanks, I value my US passport more and more with each passing day.
Thomas Moore
The United States is the only nation that can realistically intervene. Militarily you could quickly wipe the board and liberate the UK. Your overwhelming power might mean its completely bloodless. How can we persuade your countrymen to do it?
In all seriousness I don't understand how they can think it appropriate to restrict voters access to information or to constrain the voters ability to discuss that information. It’s almost as if Democracy is just a nuisance to them.
Kevin Powell
Hate speech laws are 100% up to perception. It's literally a law about being offended. If you're not offended then it's not a court case, if you are offended then it's a slam dunk.
Christian Gutierrez
As it stands, only one of our two countries has the right to Free Speech (hint: it isn't yours) archive.is/DoXLb
