On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:59 PM, michael perelman < [email protected]> wrote:
> I was struck by the need to protect the freedom of speech of the provocative anti-Muslim film and the energetic efforts to remove the > pictures of the breasts of the English. > You're conflating very different legal systems. US free speech protections aren't perfect, but the UK has nothing that comes anywhere close to comparing with them. To wit: A teenager has been found guilty of posting an offensive Facebook message > following the deaths of six British soldiers in Afghanistan. > > Azhar Ahmed, 19, of Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, was charged with sending > a grossly offensive communication. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-19604735 -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
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