[SnazzyUncle]

This is exhausting. Now you are bringing up US politics. We are talking about the UK and the UK law.

I have linked you the communications act of 2003, I have linked you examples of cases where people have be prosecuted for speech and you are going on about the current Administration in the United States which is on the other-side of an ocean.

I am asking you when have you met someone in real life that is "far right"? You are unlikely to have done so because there is maybe a few thousand at most in a country of 80 million people.

I have seen the leaked membership details of the BNP. Do you know how many people were in the BNP? IIRC it was less than 500 people for the entire UK.

You are talking as if there are Brown Shirts marching up every UK high street.

[bombcar]

The boogeymans are going to get control of the government! To stop them we better give the government all the tools needed to monitor everything at all times!

Boogeymans win an election. And gain all the tools needed.

Surprised picachu face as the kids say, I believe.

[SnazzyUncle]

Yep. It is honestly tiresome. It is the same bad arguments are repeated ad-nauseam. The UK government and various public entities have been repeatedly shown to abuse the powers given to them.

It doesn't matter if you show all the times it was abused, or someone life has been ruined for because they drunkely said something stupid on facebook, it is just ignored or if it later gets overturned that it is no big deal even though they had to spent months or years dealing with the legal system.

I have spoken to a lot of young people (typically men) in their 20s that just want to leave the country because they can see where this is all going.

Anyway my top comment has been made dead. I hate this site.