It’s not a new thing, like this lot are making out. People have been jailed before for online hate speech. Calling for a hotel to be burned down to thousands of people on Twitter should be treated the same as doing this in front of a huge crowd.
Some people are incredibly stupid in thinking they shouldn’t be held to account for what they write online.
The law (The Public Order Act 1986) doesn't work the same when their is violent disorder and rioting as opposed to when their isn't.
Things said, that may seem fine when there is what is known as "the King's peace" or "the peace" which is a state of normality in society, are not and are treated as incitement when there is "breaching the peace" (per common law definition). Basically people are frequently charged and prosecuted by the criminal justice system for incitement to riot. All in the effort to return to "the peace" and stop the violent disorder and rioting
However common law isn't used per se, and doesn't apply because it comes under The Public Order Act 1986 statute
People saying about free speech etc. Yes. All well and good. But there is always limits on that and what may not be offences normally in terms of what people say, suddenly do become offences when people are out rioting
So it goes back to what
@GrandOldTeam was saying the other day. The law treats things differently when people are out there causing disorder and rioting. He called it double standards but you have to think of it like I explained above.
The police and courts cease tolerating things that ordinarily (when people are not out rioting) they may otherwise would
The language people use gets further constrained when people go out rioting, that ordinarily people may not take too much notice of
