{"id":6403,"date":"2015-04-26T14:45:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T18:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2015-04-26T14:47:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T18:47:24","slug":"death-knell-for-freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=6403","title":{"rendered":"Death knell for freedom of speech?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/liberals.jpg\" alt=\"liberals\" width=\"750\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/liberals.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/liberals-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/liberals-450x360.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This absurdity comes to us courtesy of the magazine <strong>Reason.com<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2015\/04\/26\/the-slow-death-of-free-speech-in-britain\" target=\"_blank\">The Slow Death of Free Speech in Britain (America, You&#8217;re Next!)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Freedom of speech no longer exists in Britain. The land that gave the world the Magna Carta, the Levellers, and John Stuart Mill\u2014three of the key foundation stones of the modern conception of liberty\u2014is now arresting and even jailing people simply for speaking their minds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, here are the three crimes that are detailed in this article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A man is being investigated by police for using a hashtag &#8211; #disgrace &#8211; in a tweet to describe his reaction to two Muslims praying at his favourite football team\u2019s stadium<\/li>\n<li>A female journalist is being investigated by police and her newspaper after 285,000 people signed an on-line petition against her language in one of her columns<\/li>\n<li>An advertising regulatory body has launched an investigation into a company for using a sexy, bikini-clad woman to advertise their protein supplements, stating that this model offends plump people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is all so bazaar. In our political correct world, and with the endless numbers of militant interest watchdogs, <em>By George<\/em> has to question whether we have any freedom of speech at all these days?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Reason.com<\/strong> article is worth reading in full. <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2015\/04\/26\/the-slow-death-of-free-speech-in-britain\" target=\"_blank\">Click here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This absurdity comes to us courtesy of the magazine Reason.com: The Slow Death of Free Speech in Britain (America, You&#8217;re Next!) Freedom of speech no longer exists in Britain. The land that gave the world the Magna Carta, the Levellers, and John Stuart Mill\u2014three of the key foundation stones of the modern conception of liberty\u2014is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6405,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions\/6405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}