https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/03/14/you-cant-cancel-extremism/
‘This definition is not statutory and has no effect on the existing criminal law – it applies to the operations of government itself’, reads the government press release.
(Reportedly, Gove wanted to make it statutory, but was ‘warned that making it legally enforceable could capture political organisations such as the Scottish National Party’, presumably given the party’s agitation against the ‘the UK’s system of liberal parliamentary democracy’. Which is a useful demonstration of why it’s so unwise and unwieldy to try to legislate against such nebulous concepts as ‘extremism’ or ‘hate’.)
See my previous notwithstanding….
Flick 🇬🇧 /
npub1ux…xujtm
2024-03-14 20:57:53
Author Public Key
npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtmPublished at
2024-03-14 20:57:53Event JSON
{
"id": "c35af1941d3735579279d944db597023828c1e2b3e071fec9a6fb9bfe6e14e06",
"pubkey": "e1b7b2095371c903cc29facb1d949ca60f9762c17bcd0e5111e92cc99e3a92fc",
"created_at": 1710449873,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://spinster.xyz/objects/c2a2c6b5-256c-415c-b8f9-c57658ea304d",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/03/14/you-cant-cancel-extremism/\n\n ‘This definition is not statutory and has no effect on the existing criminal law – it applies to the operations of government itself’, reads the government press release.\n\n(Reportedly, Gove wanted to make it statutory, but was ‘warned that making it legally enforceable could capture political organisations such as the Scottish National Party’, presumably given the party’s agitation against the ‘the UK’s system of liberal parliamentary democracy’. Which is a useful demonstration of why it’s so unwise and unwieldy to try to legislate against such nebulous concepts as ‘extremism’ or ‘hate’.)\n\nSee my previous notwithstanding….",
"sig": "5c0f6640ea8ea6549cd8eae656c92a42985852ee5f58d32b1246c3b56913a8e70db68976cf7910d3d5fef5863d7b5f253a6db95b93dee1c071f849ebbe795bc0"
}