Democrats prefer the UK model for free speech rights

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Free speech does not exist outside of the United States, especially not in the United Kingdom. Transgender activists and even some Democratic politicians want to make our country more like the latter.

Comedian Graham Linehan was arrested after arriving in London this past weekend. His crime was three tweets: one criticizing transgender activists, one criticizing transgender women in women’s locker rooms, and one mocking transgender activists for lacking personal hygiene. As Linehan said, “I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online — all because I made jokes that upset some psychotic crossdressers.”

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