sad if you had told me 25 years ago that freedom of speech was in danger in the European democracies I would of laughed. today I feel that freedom of speech is in danger everywhere that a liberal progressive has control.
No freedom of speech 25 years ago in GB.
Free speech was already gone 25 years ago. People were imprisoned for comments about immigration, race and crime in the UK under Thatcher during the 1980’s. Fro example, the leader of the British National Party served one year in prison for a speech.
American conservative media only covers cases where people are in trouble for critiquing Muslims or gays. Many other people are being prosecuted and imprisoned for critiquing Jews, the official WWII narrative and non-European immigrants generally as well, but those cases are not covered by Breitbart or National Review, leaving the false impression that these laws are only used to protect Muslims.
Look up the Public Order Act of 1986. It is the law most of these prosecutions are under. It was created by Thatcher to criminalize protesting against her. The POA eliminates any pretense of free speech or free assembly in the UK. It institutes a concept called “group libel” that previous Tory and Labour governments had rejected when pressured by lobbyists for cultural marxism. “Group libel” is the “offense” in most of these prosecutions and did not exist as a legal statute in the UK until 1986.
Thatcher, like Reagan, had some big flaws.
I strongly encourage conservatives to look into the history of anti-speech laws in Europe. They go back the 70’s and 80’s in many countries.