[Latty]

I explicitly said that the UK wasn't free of issues: my pointing out the US was worse wasn't defending our own, simply making the point that some Americans tend to massively exaggerate the UK's issues while pretending the US doesn't have any.

Average people from the UK are going to assume that any pushback on speech controls is nutters if the message comes with absurd exaggerations and outright lies. There are legitimate cases of overreach from our legal system, but too often the focus is on someone actively calling for violence, and those are not the same.

[haswell]

> …while pretending the US doesn't have any.

As far as I can tell, the comment you replied to did not do any such thing.

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They’re referring to the comment upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44198428

[haswell]

Yes, I’m aware. I should have said “referred to” instead of “replied to”.

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Hmm, to me that comment is clearly making a comparison between the US and the UK and suggesting that the UK is in a worse position with regard to freedom of expression (“from across the pond”).