[cess11]

'You're claiming the UK lacks "freedom of speech" because it doesn't allow people to incite violence online, while saying the USA has free speech, despite it seemingly rejecting visitors for legal political speech.'

Voicing support for the group Palestine Action has been met with quite harsh responses in the UK, even though that group is arguably non-violent in that its criminal actions are directed towards property with the aim of slowing actual violence.

There are other similar developments in UK state policy.

[hermitcrab]

>Voicing support for the group Palestine Action has been met with quite harsh responses in the UK, even though that group is arguably non-violent

That was my opinion. However one of them was alleged at a recent trial to have hit and injured a policewoman with a sledgehammer.

[cess11]

Video from the incident:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-obhMBSWi4c

BBC reporting:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dzq41n4l9o

The accused person claims to have panicked due to how the police were interfering. If I understand the article correctly the cop was off work for three months due to the injury.

[hermitcrab]

I hadn't seen that video. Now that i have, I am none the wiser.

[jjgreen]

Craig Murray's take:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/12/the-filton-t...