I'm just suggesting that might be the root of things.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @SubBeck
Way larger percentage of your population is literally not free. I read 1%?! But free citizens have more freedom of speech etc.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
the prison problem is due mostly to an insane preoccupation with punishing drug abusers.
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Replying to @SubBeck
Yeah. We tend to leave them alone mostly. So we impose on citizens & restrict freedoms differently.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
true, but it's my impression at least that people in the UK are more willing to accept gov as a protective big brother.
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Replying to @SubBeck
I don't know that we are. Not a big drive for guns but much protest re: drugs, right to die, free speech etc.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
free speech is a much stronger right here. You disagree?
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Replying to @SubBeck
No! That's why I said there's a lot of protest against denials of it here.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
there are no hate speech laws equivalent to yours, for example. Giving offense cannot be punished. Libel laws different too.
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Yes, I know. We have a problem here.
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