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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13791)6/1/2002 3:43:01 PM
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Actually, free speech in the UK isn't and has never been what it is in the US. They have no First Amendment equivalent. What they have is a set of customs, and the government has a very large discretionary role in determining what's allowable and what isn't. The rubric under which speech can be limited with impunity in the UK is a series of "Defense of the Realm Acts." Their blasphemy laws, for example, although enforced erratically, are draconian and shocking to those with American free speech values. (This is all I remember from a piece written by Christopher Hitchens in The Nation, I think it was, a few years ago, comparing speech-rights under the First Amendment to those in the UK.) (I think it was The Nation, but I can't find it in their archive.)
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