Comment on Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter
FishFace@piefed.social 22 hours agoWhat is “protest law” in the UK? Where on the world does free speech allow spraying slogans on public buildings?
Comment on Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter
FishFace@piefed.social 22 hours agoWhat is “protest law” in the UK? Where on the world does free speech allow spraying slogans on public buildings?
Seefoo@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
He actually covers it in the closing arguments (the definition of protest law). I am not familiar with UK law, but it shouldn’t be hard to double check
FishFace@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Tip: protest law does not make many generally illegal things legal if you were protesting. It was a rhetorical question because the person above was implying it would do something it doesn’t.
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It kinda does though. There is a thing called Civil Disobedience and that is protected actually.
FishFace@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Protected by which law(s) in the UK? Or can you give an example of case law?