[shellac]

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights is enshrined in legislation in the UK and Ireland, and offers protections for signatories of the convention.

(Edit: Oh, and the Bill of Rights gives parliamentarians quite an extreme version)

[nelblu]

Also Canada : https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/how-righ...

[ekianjo]

How were such freedoms protected during the trucker protests in Canada? That was not so long ago, and the government declared emergency powers to break the peaceful protests and freeze protesters' bank accounts.

[ekianjo]

> Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights is enshrined in legislation in the UK and Ireland, and offers protections for signatories of the convention.

it's enforced nowhere, since the European Convention on Human Rights has never attacked any of its members for putting people in jail or fining them for what they posted online. So, you can have all the laws on paper that you want, if nobody respects them, they might as well not exist.

[ath3nd]

> So, you can have all the laws on paper that you want, if nobody respects them, they might as well not exist.

Are you talking about the US at the moment?

- https://www.context.news/big-tech/us-prison-social-media-cra...

- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rnzp4ye5zo

- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/04/un-human-rig...

Basically freedom of expression is fine, as long as you don't:

- criticize the genocide that the US government is partial to (and funds) in Palestine

- criticize the US government for backing out of all climate deals

- criticize Trump for being orange and weird and Musk for being a robot?

I wonder if in recent political history we can find a parallel with some parties in Germany and Italy in the past century.