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Yes that is the very problematic and dangerous mechanism by which they stifle free speech, and you won't care until Palestine action people are similarly charged. Which is my entire point.
Again if you had read your source you'd stop saying it was because antivax and would see it was laws that have always been on the books in the UK.
What is being done to Palestinian Action is atrocious but in no way similar to the asshole antivax people you linked
What do you mean? The UK has had a list of terrorists for a long time and if you support them then you can be arrested. "These laws have always been on the books."
The antivaxer was charged or arrested because of them? Otherwise you're just trying to conflate antivaxers to this
Dang I gotta really spell it out for you. The government makes classifications of crimes that can be applied and then used to shut down speech that they don't like. That is what they did with the anti vaxxers and that is also what they've done with Palestine action. If you allow them to use tools like this, then eventually they will use it against something you believe in. Public nuisance is a whole lot less serious of a crime compared to terrorism, but the end result, or the goal anyway, is the same; shut down people who give voice and advertise causes they believe in if the government doesn't like them. Additionally, these tools of the government change hands as the parties in power change. Authoritarianism is dangerous no matter who it is used against and needs to constantly kept in check or eventually it will be used against you.
Wow. Okay you are equating people fighting against genocide with those wanting to get people killed because they hate or don't understand science.
The UK government apparently thinks that Palestine action is a much bigger threat than the anti vaxxers, but that isn't really the point. Why don't you just admit that you are an authoritarian and you only care about authoritarianism when it's used against you and your preferred causes?
This is a terrible bit account