The legislation criminalizes hate speech relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity, and variations in sex characteristics, including potentially hate speech spoken in private residences.
What's worse than this proposed law is that the reported dissent seems to only go half way in the right direction.
They're failing to call this law what it is, despotism.
As a great man once said, "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first thought forbidden, the first speech censored, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
If The United Kingdom loses this fight to defend free speech, every freedom will eventually fall with it. Kind of ironic if you think about it.. Given the country has gone back into national lockdown and what was an already ailing economy is now sure to be in tatters.