Free speech is a pretty fragile thing, it seems. In Britain, considered by some to be the original home of freedom of expression, it’s all but dead. You can be jailed for social media posts that fall into some nebulously-defined “hate speech” category, and to make things even more ridiculous, at least one British cop, this one being Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley, is arguably threatening to extradite people who make unacceptable social media posts — from Britain or even from “farther afield.”
Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley threatens to EXTRADITE and imprison American citizens over online posts.
He does not rule out Elon Musk. pic.twitter.com/AUJhEgTTtJ
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 9, 2024
OK, now, the interviewer mentions Elon Musk. The Commissioner does not mention him. What he does have to say is bad enough. Rowley says:
We will throw the full force of…
