Britain’s Great Speech Police Rebrand
The British government scraps non-crime hate incidents. The replacement system does everything the old one did, just with a fresher coat of bureaucratic paint.
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The British government scraps non-crime hate incidents. The replacement system does everything the old one did, just with a fresher coat of bureaucratic paint.
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