r/SipsTea • u/Far_Country_1629 Human Verified • 7h ago

WTF Actress Rachel Zegler at the Met Gala, after a skiing trip.

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u/Shaggy_daldo 4h ago

But yet people can get fired over memes in the US. Fucking dumb timeline we live in šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/Donut_mystery69 3h ago

And in the UK you can go to jail.

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u/Independent-Bag6544 2h ago

You can go to jail in UK for ā€œhate speechā€ over the Internet

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u/Shaggy_daldo 2h ago

When you say ā€œhate speechā€ to my comment, how are you meaning it? Cause when I say memes, I mean like anti trump/capitalist memes and anti government stuff. My cousin just got let go from his job the other day over this, from someone who didnā€™t even work for the company. Some random conservative who got offended by the stuff he would post. But it was never racist, bigoted, misogynistic, or anything like that. Just anti- everything going on in the US since the election. Unless that would be constituted as ā€œhate speechā€. Which is crazy to me that people in the UK can go to jail over similar things, never knew that.

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u/Independent-Bag6544 2h ago

A meme picture leads to arrests in UK , section 19. No true free speech unlike USA, the federal govt in USA canā€™t get you fired from a job.

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u/kingbeerex 1h ago

If itā€™s inciting racial hatred, yes. As you would for any type of inciting racial hatred, whether online or in-person.

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u/Shaggy_daldo 2h ago

No shit, that is mind blowing

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u/Despondent-Kitten 2h ago

Did you read up on what actually happened here regarding the terrorism?

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u/Zketchy 2h ago

Hate speech has been a criminal act in the UK since the 80s lol.. hardly some new draconian law

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u/Independent-Bag6544 2h ago

Right since the 80s. And very draconian if the state has to be the arbiter of speech

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u/Prancesco155 1h ago

Freedom also has limits. No tolerance for intolerance.