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A Free Speech Bill for the United Kingdom Preston Byrne (of defending Americans against Ofcom fame) has been working on a free speech bill for the UK.
See also the thread on X.
The reason this legislative proposal exists, btw, is because Ofcom decided to go after four tiny American companies and I realized the UK didn’t have doctrinal tooling to stop the problem at its source
This Model Bill is, hopefully, a first step towards developing that new law.
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Looks like a really well-researched article. I hope to get the time to read it but probably won’t.
There is the fundamental problem that Parliament is sovereign and no Parliament can bind its successors. One Parliament might well pass a Model Bill and another might just as well repeal it. He might have covered that but if he did, I didn’t spot it.
The slightly embarrassing truth is that Britain has a rather patchy record when it comes to free speech. From the 1920s, for example, I have come across any number of plays and films being banned. One film got banned because it was favourable to the rebels in the American War of Independence.