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He was dragged out of the airport like a terrorist, had his devices confiscated,
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was thrown in jail overnight and lost access, my understanding is, to his heart medication, if I recall correctly.
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>> And because this was an incitement to violence >> because this offended some existing law
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against uh provocative speech in the UK. So that was in a single year of slightly
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over 12,000 Brits arrested for speech acts. And that is more than more than we're arrested that year in Russia, more
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than in China. Most of the British people that you talk to say this is totally unacceptable. And if you look at
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the polls in the UK, you see public sentiment against this kind of thing. And the defense you hear is well, you
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know, we have a less chilling, less totalitarian environment than China. So maybe more people are willing to break
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the rules, more people are willing to offend. But if you arrest 12,000 people a year for speech and you're raising
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children in an ecosystem where you can be dragged out of the airport for offending the dogmas of transgender
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activism, >> then you might not have a different culture than China for Mhm.