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“Real-time” host Bill Maher On Friday, Americans urged Americans to support freedom of speech without conditions to avoid speech like the UK, which has greatly increased the enforcement of verbal violations in the past few years.
When talking about freedom of speech violations, he felt that the president Donald Trump In recent years, Maher warned that the United States cannot follow in the UK’s footsteps
“This country cannot be that country, but it cannot be what Britain is doing now, either 12,000 times Now in the UK for a year. ” he warned.
12,000 figures from statistics Free Speech Alliance in the UK.
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“Real-time” host quoted Arrest Irish comedy writer Earlier this month, Britain’s Graham Linehan was evidence of Britain’s crackdown on freedom of speech. Linehan was arrested last week at London’s Heathrow Airport and was arrested last week in several social media posts criticizing trans activists.
Bill Maher hosted “Real Time” on September 12, 2025. (Screen shot/HBO)
“Last week, Irish sitcom writer Graham Linehan, who won the Emmy and five BAFTA awards, got off the plane at Heathrow and was arrested by five British police officers, not because he was selling drones to Houthis, but because he was a crank, he spent a lot of time online competing for gender science online.”
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Maher continued, noting that there are many “non-crazy people, liberals” who think the left is “a bit crazy” about transgender issues, including writer JK Rowling and comedian Dave Chappelle.
“Some people express this view with literary achievements, like JK Rowling. Some people laugh like Dave Chappelle. Some people are ugly about it, like Lineham,” he said. “But ugliness is the price of freedom, just like words.”
Continuing his point of view, even for freedom of speech, even for offensive speech, he arrested Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil for his pro-Palestinian activism on campus.
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“Father Ted” writer Graham Linehan was arrested for social media posts criticizing trans ideology. (Niall Carson/PA images via Getty Images; Krisztian Elek/Sopa Images/Lightrocket via Getty Images)
Maher argued that while he found Khalil’s anti-Israel column was published in the school’s newspaper offensive, he still “got the mat and let that person print it.”
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Fox News’s Rachel Wolf contributed to the report.
