More than 60,000 people arrested in the UK over the past five years, for 'communications offences', which is exactly as Orwellian as it sounds.
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@BigBrotherWatch and others like them in pushing back against this apparently never-ending erosion of our ability to speak - and therefore to think - freely.
What you think and say may well be abhorrent. It might be wrong, misguided, and need to be challenged. But that challenge and that dialectic is precisely how bad ideas are flushed out, and how good ideas emerge.
A country with a blanket, state-determined set of acceptable rules and opinions has no right to call itself a free democracy any longer, and overreach of this kind should never, ever have emerged here.