If I may, I'd like to reassure UK (and EU) citizens that we DO HAVE strong laws protecting our
freedom of expression
The full list of UK HUMAN RIGHTS (which is very closely aligned to the EU's HUMAN RIGHTS ) is here:
An Act to give further effect to rights and freedoms guaranteed under the European Convention on Human Rights; to make provision with respect to holders of certain judicial offices who become judges of the European Court of Human Rights; and for connected purposes.
www.legislation.gov.uk
The most pertinent are these:
HRA #8
HRA #9
HRA #10
HRA #11
The European Court of Human Rights defined the importance of our freedom of expression in this case:
en.wikipedia.org
Handyside v United Kingdom
(5493/72) was a case decided by the
European Court of Human Rights in 1976. Its conclusion contains the famous phrase that:
Freedom of expression ... is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received or regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population.
Miller v The College of Policing [2021] EWCA Civ 1926 ] heard in the UK's Royal Courts of Justice in 2021
At appeal in the Court of Appeal, the judges reiterated and emphatically upheld the importance of the definition in Handyside and quoted that definition in full in their judgment:
Neutral Citation Number: [2021] EWCA Civ 1926 Case No: C1/2020/1382 In The Court of Appeal (Civil Division) On appeal from the High Court of Justice Royal Courts of Justice 20th December 2021 Before President of the Queen’s Bench Division Lady Justice Simler and Lord Justice Haddon-Cave Between...
www.judiciary.uk
“Freedom of expression constitutes one of the essential foundations of a ["democratic society"], one of the basic conditions for its progress and for the development of every man. Subject to paragraph 2 of Article 10 [HRA]…it is applicable not only to "information" or "ideas" that are favourably received or regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population. Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society".
[That also means that no one has the right to not be offended, subject to HRA10.]
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We do have strong laws that protect our freedoms.
Unfortunately, they're not made easy to find or learn about.
And we've been fortunate that we've not had to think about these laws until the last few years and bad actors like Hazno and his wife (and governments) who are intent on censoring us.