| > Trucker protests during Covid, Watch a video of the protest in Ottawa and come back to me and tell what you would have done if this was happening inside your city. > arresting people for harmless jokes on Twitter I'll give you that one - https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/7/22912054/uk-grossly-offens... The law is a mess. But ironically it's not because of a degradation of free speech, but rather because of legacy laws that haven't been caught up with the times. > because a dog raised it paw While I personally wouldn't have made a stink out of that one either, let's not pretend that's all it was. The man trained his dog to raise a paw in response to the command "Do you want to gas the Jews?" and then put it online. I realize it may be difficult for Americans to understand why the rest of the world takes such a zero-tolerance policy with fascism considering they are only 6 years removed from having elected a fascist president, but there are good reasons why the rest of the world takes a zero tolerance policy with Nazi speech. |