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Yes, I understand that. But there have also been people arrested for racist remarks, making fun of a death etc.. Undoubtedly these people are assholes but if we had true freedom of speech they would be allowed to speak. My point wasn't that I disagree with these people being arrested it was that if the op thinks Britain has free speech and the rest of the EU doesn't he/she is delusional.

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Yes, correct. It's a big concern. Trivially we all remember the student arrested (though later released) for jovially referring to a policeman's horse as 'gay'. As if calling someone or something 'gay' is an insult! How do they work that out? But away from the EU we can find ways of getting this nonsense out of our system and maybe slowly return to sanity.

Indeed, especially as we're all governed by quite literally the same free speech laws.

I think k-mcgrady is talking about free speech as a concept independent of the legislation. Allowing the law to redefine free speech is a dangerous idea.

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