The industry expert in that article is a bloke who sells fish discos.

I think the problem here is greatly exaggerated

Not sure these measures would have helped avoid that.

Jellyfish also not a problem in the Severn Estuary either.

Salman Rushdie moved to the US because of the first amendment.

He explicitly allowed a pro-fatwa movie to be screened in the UK (when state censors wanted to prohibit it).

In fact, he spends much of his time defending the First Amendment

Yeah, I don’t think the first amendment is why Trump won.

And if anything anti-speech norms (particularly around purity) on the left are why we have Trump.

I think the Rushdie affair highlights the value of strong protections for free speech.

It’d have been good if Britain had a First Amendment culture when the Satanic Verses was published.

I do however think it’s reasonable to deport people where appropriate in such cases.

Yeah, we should allow the very silly Westboro Baptist people to practice their faith.

Is there a problem at US stadiums with this?

First Amendment protections do not prevent private organisations from restricting speech on their own property.

I don’t care about what’s popular. I care about what’s good policy.

Yeah, they’re wrong about that.

Yes, but my point was the piece claims it would pass the Supreme Court’s tests. It clearly doesn’t.

The US Supreme Court are right on free speech and this wouldn’t be a crime in the UK if we had proper protections for free speech.

Yes, there’s no way that would pass the test in the US.

There are much closer cases which don’t still pass the bar.

The key point is that her crime simply isn’t a crime in the US due to the first amendment.

There is no constitutional law against stirring up racial hatred.