The reason the minister wants prisoners released safely back into society, and something of the sort is already happening in the UK, speaks to us: 'Soon we may be needing all our prison space for political prisoners,'" like Julian Assange, Donald Trump, Sidney Powell, and "January 6 insurrectionists.  https://www.unz.com/article/britains-worst-amendment-the-online-safety-bill/

The invention of "hate speech"  was a slippery slope down which we have rapidly descended.  Former British Ambassador and human rights activist Craig Murray has been detained under Britain's counterterrorism laws  for pointing out Palestine's case in the conflict. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/10/18/uk-government-arrests-former-uk-ambassador-for-supporting-palestine/ 

In the UK just to say that there is another side is an offense, so the British arrest their own ambassador. This is "the free world" today.  A very unhealthy place for liberty. 

As Mark Gullick reports, Britain's "Online Safety Bill" currently under debate in Parliament will effectively terminate free speech.