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nullbio • today at 6:12 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The fact that you're quite clearly either ill-informed, or blinded by your own biases. I'm not sure why you keep mentioning this Graham person when I had never mentioned them. Seems like you're trying to reframe using a cherry-picked example.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/blogger-arrested-sharing-anti-...

Do you think someone should be arrested for sharing a meme that says f** Hamas? Or did you not know about this?

It's common knowledge that the UK is arresting people on the daily for harmless things that no one actually cares about. Should someone go to jail for saying "fuck serial killers"? Is that a hate crime too?


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Quarrelsome • today at 6:25 PM

> Do you think someone should be arrested for sharing a meme that says f* Hamas?

If you had an idea about our laws you'd realise that's not the problematic part. The issue is under the Equalities Act 2010 religion and ethnicity are protected characteristics. So its the "fuck Islam" and "fuck off to a Muslim country..." that is problematic here.

FYI using Fox News to try to understand the UK is like trying to run air traffic control with a Fischer-Price chatter telephone. Stating that I am ill-informed or blinded by bias when citing a yank source (who by their own definition are "entertainment news") as opposed to a serious broadcaster from the UK is quite the look.

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