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Hasan Piker Blasts SXSW London’s ‘Disgusting’ Response to UK Ban as Other Speaker Pulls Out in Solidarity (www.thewrap.com)

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[+] reddit_sux@lemmy.world -7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Hasan Piker calling out a UK Government for an action his government has far surpassed.

Calling out UK Government for making it difficult for him a non citizen to enter because of his speech is far less authoritative than what his government is doing; jailing its own citizen for similar speech.

UK has no compunction of restricting unbridled free speech. It has no law that guarantees it.

Calling out an entity that is registered there and having a function there is the height of Americans entitlement.

[–] ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

You think this is a gotcha because Hasan lives in the US?? He spends plenty of time covering all of the fucked up shit the USA has been up to, even before Trump...

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world -1 points 9 hours ago

It is not a gotcha Americans should get down from there high horse and recognise that they are not the main character.