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by lawlessone 2620 days ago
The likes of Tommy Robinson isn't free speech, it's grifting for cash and stochastic terrorism.
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Regardless of what you think of him, I think that the press has a right to know about trials that are going on. There should not be press blackouts and media bans on reporting ongoing trials that are underway. I do think he is a racist, but in the US, the thing that rocketed him to recent fame would never have happened. In the US we are allowed to know about trials and the media is allowed report on them when they are happening.
Tommy nearly caused the trial to collapse and for those rapists to get away.
I don't see how the act of one man filming the outside of a courthouse from the street can cause a trial to collapse. And nothing I see online backs up that claim. In the US there is no danger of a trial collapsing if I film a courthouse from the sidewalk outside of it, it is my absolute right to do so.
> In the US there is no danger

Well it's the UK isn't it? They're a little ahead of you.

Still speech. Silencing him just streisand effects him anyways so it's pretty pointless.

You turn controversial ideas into forbidden knowledge. Alex Jones is probably more powerful now to his followers due to the fact that he's contraband

I look forward to Alex Jones becoming the kind of forbidden knowledge that the flat earthers had to distribute using flyers & home-printed tabloids in the pre-internet days.
of course... 5 minute old account named trumpanomics..
My account isn't 5 minutes old, but I still agree with what parent post said. Making something taboo makes it coveted or people more interested in it than if it wasn't. Pull the straw man out and try another argument please.
If he's wrong, he's wrong regardless of his name or the age of his account.
Thank you. He is also wrong.
Could you supply a bit more reason and/or argument than just "he's wrong" and "the account is five minutes old, with a name that seems fishy to me". So far you have said exactly nothing that looks even remotely persuasive.