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[–]black_sheep[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm so sorry for you, but you are truly a hero for continuing to vocalize your beliefs anyway. I think the more and more people stay quiet, the more the TRAs gain momentum for their power. Is there a source you could point me to for a quick overview on speech laws in the UK? I'm an American and what I can say about our first amendment is that it seems more expansive than it is. It protects the government (at both federal and state level) from controlling speech, for example, but not private institutions. So if a corporation or private university demanded you vocalize certain beliefs and prevented you from speaking/publishing if they didn't like your ideas you are not protected by the first amendment. So basically the right of a private institution to endorse its ideology of choice trumps your individual liberty, just not the government. This is why a baptist university, for example, can demand its faculty be baptist. It's a little more complicated than what I've said but this is basically how it works. How does it work in the UK?