So serious question for the Brits: If your spouse started tweeting at you with "persistent" messages that caused you "annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety" couldn't they also be arrested and charged? Doubt there's anything in UK law that would prevent that, eh? hmmmmm. https://twitter.com/thehomoarchy/status/1168392636073267200 …
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It's also why libel and slander cases are far, far harder to win in the US--this is another well known fact. "Truth" is not a sufficient defense in the UK, whereas it is here.
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If you phoned police in any US city & reported someone was persistently "annoying" you on Twitter (unless they were actually threatening physical harm), they'd just laugh. Anyone can file a lawsuit of course, but it would be a fool's errand. The UK has actual Thought Police.
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You should have waited for 2/2 until answering 1/2 I don't think your jails would be overflowing with wrongthinkers at all. Just the opposite. My point is there are other things going on here apart from a lack of a 1st amd.
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Oh, it's just as bad here; if anything, extremist trans ideology is MORE entrenched. But something like this sounds like parody to us in the US. It WOULD NOT HAPPEN, and it is down to our free speech protections. https://twitter.com/HarryTheOwl/status/1110503946915733505 …
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We're talking about legal, not social, issues here.
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