Judges have insisted that freedom of speech includes the 'right to offend' in a landmark ruling which could help to turn the tide on 'woke' intolerance after a feminist who called a transgender woman a 'pig in a wig' and a 'man' was cleared.
Presiding over a case in the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Warby said: 'Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.'
They added that 'free speech encompasses the right to offend, and indeed to abuse another'. The judgment from two senior members of the judiciary will set a precedent for future cases involving freedom of speech.
What horrible thing had she done to be arrested?
In February Ms Scottow, 39, was found guilty of persistently making use
of a public communications network to cause annoyance, inconvenience,
and anxiety to Stephanie Hayden, 48, between September 2018 and last
May.
The horror!
And, of course, the people causing John Peel to spin in his grave had to be involved:
She had been arrested by three police officers in 2019 at her home in
Pirton near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, in front of her daughter, 10, and
son, 20 months. Boris Johnson later called it an abuse of power.
Because God forbid someone use unapproved language. The cops won't arrest PC-protected assholes who threaten lives and attack people, but This Cannot Be Tolerated.
It's small, but it's a step.
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