Norwich to report racist abuse

[Allezfan]

Slight difference between free speech and threatening behaviour but carry on.

Shouting fire in a crowded room, telling someone they have to sleep you or they'll lose their job even if you have no actual power to do that, telling a lie about someone, breaking a national secret, etc etc.

You remove the slander laws, the harassment laws, the abuse laws, the secrecy laws, the intimidation laws etc, etc and maybe you can say freedom of speech is absoloute. Right now it isn't.

 

[The-Golden-Vision]

Shouting fire in a crowded room, telling someone they have to sleep you or they'll lose their job even if you have no actual power to do that, telling a lie about someone, breaking a national secret, etc etc.

You remove the slander laws, the harassment laws, the abuse laws, the secrecy laws, the intimidation laws etc, etc and maybe you can say freedom of speech is absoloute. Right now it isn't.

 

[Hellerad]

1. Freedom of speech is more about the freedom to criticize your government, not the freedom to act however you want in public.
2. Freedom of speech is freedom from government censorship, not private actors (i.e., football clubs).
3. Your rights end where other persons' rights begin. Simple as.

One would hope that fans would continue to self-police by silencing bigots chanting in their midst, but sometimes more is merited. With that said, the line can get blurred by overly PC people, but racism is not "the line" and there is nothing gray about it.

 

[Scottish Toffee]

Freedom of speech is not the only right that we recognise as a society. There are time where certain freedoms clash and thus three must be a trade off. In this case the right to be free from discrimination overrides the freedom of speech. This does not mean that speech is not free.

 

[nigelcoyb]

Note : Do not get involved in racist threads or racist twitter comments....PC Police

Is your real name Davidson?