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[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Perhaps it has something to do with the sheer lack of revisionists coming from Britain and your 1689 Bill Of Rights? Irving has only been to prison on the continent. Although didn't the musician Chabloz get convicted of Holocaust Denial for her music? Maybe they do have them now. Edit: No I looked it up and found she was arrested for sending Grossly Offensive Communications.

Wouldn't they just charge someone now with Inciting Racial Hatred or some other violation of the hate speech laws there?

[–]VraiBleuScots Protestant, Ulster Loyalist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wouldn't they just charge someone now with Inciting Racial Hatred or some other violation of the hate speech laws there?

Yeah that was my thought too. We have Holocaust denial laws just under a different name & It seems to have got much worse in the last 5 years or so.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wouldn't they just charge someone now with Inciting Racial Hatred or some other violation of the hate speech laws there?

Yes actually, Alison Chabloz slipped my mind. But she has only been getting persecuted in the past couple years.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The United Kingdom has no law that specifically outlaws Holocaust denial, with the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) stating, “Current laws on incitement to racial hatred in the United Kingdom do not have the effect of prohibiting the activities of Holocaust deniers.”[8] This is not to say that there have been no attempts at introducing legislation. In 1997 a Holocaust Denial Bill was tabled in the House of Commons which would have amended exciting legislation to criminalise Holocaust denial. The Bill failed however, due to insufficient parliamentary time. Interestingly, the Institute’s panel reached a unanimous view that criminalisation of Holocaust denial would be inadvisable.  Among their reasons were the potentially illegitimate infringement on the right to freedom of expression, unconvincing evidence from other jurisdictions with such legislation, conceptual problems, and a fear that prosecution of such cases could work to the advantage of deniers.[9] Instead, they recommended amending existing laws on racial hatred, “in order to improve their effectiveness in dealing with expressions of racism and anti-Semitism.”[10]

https://www.lawteacher.net/free-law-essays/human-rights/holocaust-denial-in-uk-8763.php

Either way, there are dozen of cases where they arrested people based on a technicality. In case of Alison Chabloz they just said Holocaust denial is "grossly offensive" and therefore illegal. Frederick Toben is another such case.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When you look at the map, it seems to be in countries that Germany ever occupied during WW2 (with exceptions for Portugal & Israel).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Holocaust_Denial_Laws.svg

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

I was taught decades ago it was because neo Nazi groups kept forming, and Holocaust denial laws were used to prosecute them so they couldn't get too popular again.

It's not illegal in the US because of the 1st amendment.