by Richard Eldred, Daily Sceptic:

Our laws are muzzling speech, from private chats to social media, leaving the country’s tradition of free expression hanging by a thread, warns David Frost in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt:

We all agree that rioting and violence should be punished. We all agree that threats and – genuine, meaningful – incitement to violence are not covered by the right to free speech. Many of those punished in recent days have been convicted for exactly those things. But not all have. We shouldn’t be surprised by that. For our legislation goes much wider than that, to criminalise far wider categories of speech and messaging. It’s now being used, brutally, by a Government that has little real regard for free speech.