I'm making a different point, primarly about rage-bait on Nostr. I'll have to write a longer message to explain it:
You don't need to convince me to dislike the UK. I'm Irish, and am very aware of the UK's problems and hypocrisy ๐. There are many recent examples, such as taking the rap group Kneecap to court for waving a flag
I support free speech as much as anyone on Nostr; I've been annoying my friends for decades with how much I support privacy, and the right of assembly, and free speech, and so on.
If I promise that I will pay any hitman who murders my enemy, I'm guilty of murder, even though in practice it means I'm being locked up for words I said. I'm quite happy to allow people to advocate for death and destruction of large groups of people; as distasteful as that will be. But when somebody directs violence against an individual or a very small group ("let's burn anyone living in this hotel"), then I think they are crossing a line.
However, I can understand that people might draw the line elsewhere. In fact, maybe somebody wouldn't have a problem with giving verbal directions to hitmen. Maybe the crime boss isn't guilty for saying words, but would instead by guilty at the moment they pay the hitman.
However, we didn't get an opportunity to discuss all these issues. Instead, a very selectively-edited video was shared to generate rage and engagement. We love to say "Bitcoin/Nostr fixes this", but it doesn't (immediately) fix every problem ๐
I don't like hate speech laws, i.e. laws that specifically adjust the sentences of "normal" crimes due to vague "hate" issues. Therefore, I would like this person to be free. Such laws are inappropriate and therefore should be opposed, even if it means some undesirable people are freed.
If the UK didn't have these 'hate speech' laws, and if the UK generally respected the basic rights we all support, then this person might still be prosecuted under 'normal' laws around organizing and inciting violence against small groups, and I (and you!) might be supportive of that prosecution. This person identified a small group of people, shared their location, and tried to organize a violent mob to burn those people to their death.
We could have had a good discussion on this, where everybody got all the relevant facts at the start, to allow us to debate where the line is drawn. And I'm open to drawing the line at a very extreme position. But instead we had some rage-bait via selectively-edited video
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You are a cuck and a faggot, and you are the reason your country will be African in 50 years