"Titania McGrath" has a short but entertaining Critic piece on free speech.
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
What did Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Ivan the Terrible, Genghis Khan, Idi Amin and Caligula have in common? That’s right: they were all able to speak.
This quite obviously proves that free speech is a tyrannical concept, one that can lead directly to murder, terrorism, genocide and — worst of all — misgendering.
And so it is a relief to see that one of Keir Starmer’s key priorities as prime minister is to crack down on online speech. Already he has ingenuously granted early release from prison for drug dealers, sex offenders and violent criminals to free up space for bigots who have said nasty things on social media.
Worth reading - making fun of the creeps is both satisfying and probably more effective than we know.
2 comments:
Don't drag Caligula into it. He merely wanted to make his horse a consul, but just look at Starmer's front bench....
Sam - good point, a few horses on the front bench wouldn't get up on their hind legs and talk nonsense.
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