Video: British Police Arrest Man For Sharing A Meme On Facebook

a reply to: andy06shake

most of the institutions that make up the establishment are in that space now, if trust gets any lower it'll be in negative territory.

a reply to: nickyw

Well with the people we elect or allow to be put for positions of power that's not really any wonder.

The system is broken, and on its arse, and quite frankly that looks to be by design as much as anything else.

a reply to: andy06shake

the problem is all they are doing is creating the framework for the kind of change the barons imposed on the the king and then upper middle class grandees imposed on the barons and king, as cycles go its a roughly 400 year here we are again..

personally it feels like it all heralds substantive change for the better towards a new age of reason..

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: vNex92


Plod are way too PC here. You'd think they'd have more pressing "crimes" to spend their resources on:

mobile.twitter.com...

Still, at least they generally don't murder unarmed black men, so there is that.

or get their cops shot dead at a traffic stop or domestic call by black men

or do they?

originally posted by: CptGreenTea
What is UKs free speech laws compared to the u.s.?

People have free speech and actions under human rights act, freedom of expression and personal belief laws and can say what they want providing it's qualified - i.e perfectly legal to wear a t shirt saying 'I hate black/white/gay/straight/trans people' but breaks the law to say 'hate black/white/gay/straight/trans people'

The Malicious Communications Act (internet policing) is overzealous and abused by police for easy arrests (charges are different) and investigations without leaving their desks.

The government are trying to scrap human rights, right to protest, peaceful assembly, freedom of expression, right to criticise government etc... by trying to replace the Human Rights Act with a British 'Bill of Rights' where anyone who criticises goverrnment or exposes illegal practice can be charged with espionage/being a foreign agent.