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>> Hundreds of UK citizens have been found guilty under Section 127, often for insulting, abusing, and harassing public figures like athletes, journalists, and
by anikan_vader 5y ago
>> Hundreds of UK citizens have been found guilty under Section 127, often for insulting, abusing, and harassing public figures like athletes, journalists, and MPs.
A good opportunity for the Americans among us to feel gratitude at our constitutional right to insult the dunderheads in both chambers of our congress!
It's times likes these that I like to reflect on how fortunate it was that the Sedition Act of 1798 was allowed to expire long before I was born.
- digianarchist 5y agoGood case for asylum in the United States if the guy feels like moving.
- null0pointer 5y agoI feel like we've got this totally backwards. If we're going to have laws around speech at all then it should protect the general public more than public figures. In fact some public figures, such as politicians, should be entirely exempt from protection. But we don't see it protecting the general public because those cases are never as high profile.