To set the record straight from the onset, Great Britain is a nation that, unlike its offshoot, upstart former American colonies, does not allow freedom of speech to the extent that America does. Speech in Britain is often curtailed and suppressed for fear that certain speech could disturb the peace, incite riots, or more generally hurt the feelings of certain ethnic, racial, or gender groups.

Note that in America, inciting riots can also run afoul of the law but typically riots have to occur in order for the law to be invoked. A blathering idiot who stands at a podium or on a plastic milk crate in the public square and calls for passersby or sympathetic followers to march down main streets and vent their rage by hurling bricks through storefront windows is not likely to get arrested if his or her listeners ignore the obsessed orator’s appeals and remain passive. Such is the tolerance for rabid and radical speech in these here United States.

Likewise, an individual, nicely attired, holding a cell phone and calmly live-streaming his comments as he or she strolls near a courthouse about what’s happening within is typically paid no mind by passersby or the authorities, since he or she doesn’t appear to pose a threat to the nearby court or the immediate community … in America.