By mrfahrenheit211 on Skatehive
Picture shows: Former MP Andrew Bridgen. Most Britons are now becoming more and more aware of the speech restrictions that plague Britain and which have built up over decades to such an extent that the UK is now a land where speech operates on the exact inverse of how the US First Amendment operates. The phrase ‘you can’t say that now’ has replaced the phrase ‘it’s a free country, I’ll say what I want’ which was something I heard a fair bit when younger. Whereas even the lowliest American citizen has the right to speak his point of view and say anything short of credibly inciting violence or murder or committing gross acts of libel, in Britain anyone no matter how high or how low their station in life can find themselves in trouble with the police for something they’ve said or written or posted on social media. They can find themselves subject to police investigation or prosecution merely on the grounds that someone, maybe anonymously, had complained to the police about what has been s