Thank the lord for the founding fathers and the Bill of Rights...as far as I know, the only document enshrining individual, enumerated, rights in a foundational document controlling government overreach.
In the UK....no, not nearly so much.
Censorship in the United Kingdom has a history with various stringent and lax laws in place at different times.
British citizens have a
negative right to freedom of expression under the
common law.
[1] In 1998, the
United Kingdom incorporated the
European Convention into its domestic law under the
Human Rights Act. However, there is a broad sweep of exceptions including threatening or abusive words or behaviour intending or likely to cause
harassment, alarm or distress or cause a
breach of the peace (which has been used to prohibit
racist speech targeted at individuals),
[2][3][4] sending another any article which is indecent or grossly offensive with an intent to cause distress or anxiety (which has been used to prohibit speech of a racist or anti-religious nature),
[5][6][7] incitement,
[8] incitement to racial hatred,
[9] incitement to religious hatred, incitement to
terrorism including encouragement of terrorism and dissemination of terrorist publications,
[8][10][11] glorifying terrorism,
[12][13] collection or
possession of a document or record containing information likely to be of use to a terrorist,
[14][15] treason,
[16][17][18][19][20] sedition,
[17] obscenity,
[21] indecency including corruption of
public morals and
outraging public decency,
[22] defamation,
[23] prior restraint, restrictions on court reporting including names of victims and evidence and prejudicing or interfering with court proceedings,
[24][25] prohibition of post-trial interviews with
jurors,
[25] time, manner, and place restrictions,
[26] harassment, privileged communications, trade secrets, classified material, copyright, patents, military conduct, and limitations on commercial speech such as advertising.