From age and ID restrictions on the Internet, to charging rappers with “terrorism,” the U.K. is demolishing the most basic civil liberties. If we let them, U.S. leaders may be close behind.

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[–] 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Britain has never had free speech in the same way as the US, nor even of the press. Only in the last few decades, they've only had what's required by the ECHR.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well US free speech is telling lies and misleading millions of people on broadcast television.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I'd argue that's more of a problem with media consolidation and not having some form of truth requirement in broadcast media. When only a handful of organizations own the majority of media outlets and aren't held to account for their content, this is what we end up with and why we can't have nice things.

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