Example from the article: “…sentenced to 31 months in prison for what police said was an unacceptable post. In contrast, a child molester was sentenced to 21 months in the slammer.”
Do you find it acceptable for common speech to be a crime worse than child molestation?
Come on, that’s not serious journalism. It’s an opinion piece written by a notorious conservative American media oligarch. Cherry picking examples to support some kind of anti woke narrative. Pull the other one.
The UK is the European country that has most closely attempted to emulate American national conservative capitalism, and what a shit show that has been.
Does that matter when you radicalize conservatives by arresting people and publicly shaming them? And there are other “serious journals” discussing the same
When conservatives get in power, they will do the same to you. I’m not anti woke. It’s just important to realize that things need to calm down. There are other ways to get what you want. “Violence [arresting] is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
The UK has some fairly obvious issues with democracy, like when hundreds of XR and Palestine activists are being routinely imprisoned for exercising their right to assemble. Conservatives have been in power on the UK until very recently and these illiberal developments are their doing.
Steve Forbes is part of the national conservative oligarchy that has allowed those attacks on democracy to happen in the first place. I do think the source of information matters. Words are power, and his words are poison.
Yeah, ok, the grandma thing is wrong, not sure how a court would ever mishandle that. But the elon thing, you’d hope he’d hold himself to the same standard that he holds whole countries to.
The UK is the most obvious: https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2025/09/09/people-are-being-thrown-in-uk-prisons-over-what-theyve-said-online-can-free-speech-be-saved/
Example from the article: “…sentenced to 31 months in prison for what police said was an unacceptable post. In contrast, a child molester was sentenced to 21 months in the slammer.”
Do you find it acceptable for common speech to be a crime worse than child molestation?
Come on, that’s not serious journalism. It’s an opinion piece written by a notorious conservative American media oligarch. Cherry picking examples to support some kind of anti woke narrative. Pull the other one.
The UK is the European country that has most closely attempted to emulate American national conservative capitalism, and what a shit show that has been.
Does that matter when you radicalize conservatives by arresting people and publicly shaming them? And there are other “serious journals” discussing the same
https://apnews.com/article/britain-students-free-speech-guidelines-9df46d8ed3d621f9e83c93f4346e1cb8
When conservatives get in power, they will do the same to you. I’m not anti woke. It’s just important to realize that things need to calm down. There are other ways to get what you want. “Violence [arresting] is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/german-town-pulls-one-over-on-neo-nazis
The UK has some fairly obvious issues with democracy, like when hundreds of XR and Palestine activists are being routinely imprisoned for exercising their right to assemble. Conservatives have been in power on the UK until very recently and these illiberal developments are their doing.
Steve Forbes is part of the national conservative oligarchy that has allowed those attacks on democracy to happen in the first place. I do think the source of information matters. Words are power, and his words are poison.
Yeah, ok, the grandma thing is wrong, not sure how a court would ever mishandle that. But the elon thing, you’d hope he’d hold himself to the same standard that he holds whole countries to.