This is a partisan topic. The reason why this has happened is an old law that has been repurposed by the police to pursue these claims. In Scotland, which has a

This is a partisan topic. The reason why this has happened is an old law that has been repurposed by the police to pursue these claims. In Scotland, which has a different govt to the UK on this issue, the hate speech laws are even more stringent (and the police even more aggressive in pursuing crimes on Twitter). This is always going to be a controversial topic with too sides. That isn't apparent in the US because there are such strong protections on freedom. But that doesn't change the fact that there are some people who believe they should be removed: those people exist in every society, they are a majority in the place where this occurred, and they are a majority in many other countries. Saying that someone is fanning the flames when they say they support freedom misunderstands the topic totally. There are people who believe free speech is weak and decadent, the First Minister of Scotland is a lawyer...these people are not crazies, they are people in govt today. And there aren't two sides to freedom, you are either for or against, there is no middle ground (I live in Scotland, the primary argument of people who want to supress freedom was your argument, word for word...my freedom is gone now).