yea there is a fundimental difference between free speech in the us and the freedom to speak in the uk,
this is a big old can of warms tbh, free speech laws cannot handle social media, in the uk you are freee to go a speek on a street corner say what ever you want as long as its not all out racism or telling people to burn down that house over there, in the past we have had these cranks here that say crazy things but they where isolated, now they can all get toghter and wind each other up online untill somthing happens like the other week.
the riots kicked off here becuase a 17 year old stabed some kids, a horrible thing that was then hijacked by the EDL as an anti muslim thing even though the kid that did the killing was british and a christian.... this was caused buy false information being amplified on twitter and boom all of a sudden people are looting and trying to burn down churches.
this amplification of false information and inciting violence is a crime in the uk, when polled last week over 60% of the population seem to be happy with this as well by the way.
just out of interest in the usa if somone walked into a crowded theatre and shouted "get out bomb!", then in the preceeding stampeed 4 people where killed would that be classed as a crime? i would assume so, but i have seem people argue that this would be an infringement on free speech...
Cheers
Daz