down speech. Uh, as long as it's speech. OK? Um, and so the question is, if it's direct incitement of violence or not. Um, and I would err very much on, in the direction of leaveit up as long as it is not direct incitement of violence and take other measures to protect people if they need to be protected. The the thing about posting people's personal information,
So if I say something that's going to make you punch me in the face, that is not constitutionally protected. Or incitement to lawless action, that is also not constitutionally protected. But the court the Supreme Court has limited the scope of what incitement is over time to be relatively narrow.
That's because long before these latest comments caused outrage, Ben-Gvir had been widely accused of incitement to violence against Palestinians. And he is, we should note, already sanctioned by a number of non-EU countries that are often seen as like-minded. For example,
It is also remarkable that they know how to rebrand themselves to stay away from the traditional neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial content, and from any explicit violence incitement , and to even brief their members on how to respond to tough questions from journalists. For example, if they're asked "are you anti-Semitic?
And they included people like a Buddhist monk who was giving a lecture on Buddhism in a Shangri-La Hotel. And he was also arrested for incitement to subversion. There was a factory worker, a young factory worker who visited Tiananmen Square and took a selfie, making the V sign like this.
and transporting titillation and which with all the artillery of reason we are not able to control, so furious is our passion in the embrace, we should have no manner of incitement or inclination to performing it. And consequently, procreation must soon cease and be at an end." I think he wins for most melodramatic quote about sexual pleasure you could possibly find in a medical text
But the court the Supreme Court has limited the scope of what incitement is over time to be relatively narrow. So right now, incitement is if I say something that is likely to cause an imminent lawless act, then that's not protected. And then there's another category, and I won't get into that too much, but basically it boils down to if the government has
In one case, two commentators, including the very eminent British military historian, Sir John Keegan, worked out that since the middle of the 17th century, And indeed, the incitement of violence by some of our politicians in a country which has such easy access to so many weapons, it's inevitable,
incitement of violence or not. Um, and I would err very much on, in the direction of leaveit up as long as it is not direct incitement of violence and take other measures to protect people if they need to be protected. The the thing about posting people's personal information, it's offensive to do it. Um, but if you create a system that says it can't, you know, in
more broadly and and perhaps more philosophically at um at at platform moderation, supporters of some restrictions might argue that the authorities do have a legitimate responsibility to prevent things like misinformation or incitement to violence. Where should the line be drawn? Okay. So, um those debates are I think pretty standard globally. But one of the
Or incitement to lawless action, that is also not constitutionally protected. But the court the Supreme Court has limited the scope of what incitement is over time to be relatively narrow. So right now, incitement is if I say something that is likely to cause an imminent lawless act, then that's not protected.
They aim to recruit army officers, serving army officers, from the armies of Muslim majority countries so they can incite military coups. They've done that and I've participated in that level of incitement across a couple of countries in the world. The third type, the third category are the terrorist Islamist organizations.
is a civil war." These words seem almost prophetic now, of course, in terms of the political strategies of both parties, especially the Republican Party and the ramping up of violent language-- the language of violence and the incitement of violence that we've seen over the past couple of years.
And some of them ended up being charged with creating a public disturbance, even though this was a meeting in somebody's apartment behind closed doors. To this day, one of them, lawyer Pu Zhiquiang, here, is still in custody, facing charges of incitement to subversion. And another person who I profile in my book is this man.
I believe that the ideology of Islamism is one of the biggest obstacles standing before Muslims and their progress. But I would say is that, the way I see it, is that although you may not have been involved in terrorism, you're still involved in the incitement of a huge level of hatred, and
education with the abolition of section 28 and the new Equality Act which in some sense is going to do the exact opposite of what Section 28 did, which is positively requires schools to support their lesbian and gay pupils. And we've also seen a new offense of incitement of hatred and hate crime protections to match similar protections around race, and gender, and disability, and of course, we've seen civil partnership which affords lesbian and