https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/15/we-can-no-longer-say-that-britain-is-a-free-country/
> This situation creates some very obvious problems. One is definition creep. “Grossly offensive”. “Abusive.” “Insulting”. “False”. “Stirring up.” Who says what they mean? The answer is judges and magistrates, using guidance from the Crown Prosecution Service. This currently says that they mean more than just offensive, satirical, or unfashionable, applying the standards of an “open and just multiracial society”. But who says what those standards are?
> Another is the chilling effect. In a country like ours, with clear social and political problems related to immigration and community integration, one person’s fair commentary is another person’s “abuse” or “insult”. If you comment on different crime levels among migrant communities in the UK, or note that most of those on small boats are young men leaving one safe country for another, are you making a political point, or “stirring up” racial hatred?
> Apart from the Online Safety Act, these laws were designed for a different world – one of green ink letters and abusive messages on voicemail. They are too broad to deal with social media, open to all, and with its own particular style – punchy, satirical, meme-based – where one person’s sharp comment is another’s abuse.
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