A UK terror law watchdog has warned that new counter extremism measures planned by the government target innocent citizens and threaten to completely eradicate people’s personal freedoms. According to David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of the controversial terrorism legislation, the UKs new Counter Extremism Bill will see citizens with anti-establishment views unfairly targeted for harassment by authorities. Independent.co.uk reports: “They say that if you are going to engage in extremist activity, then you could be made subject to some coercive measure whereby you might not be able to use social media, or you might be limited in your associations, or in where you can go, and so on,” he said. “I think silence coerced by law … is a very dangerous business, particularly when you are looking at something as vague as extremism. “I’ve not met anyone who can really define it in a satisfactory way. “There’s talk of British values, people who oppose diversity, democracy, the rule of law, tolerance. We can all think of people, I’m sure, we would love to see silenced in one way or the other, preachers of hate, of whatever kind. “I think the trouble with rules like that is that all sorts of [...]
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