Ryan Bridge: The limits to freedom of expression

It's just amazing the shear breadth and diversity of things we get outraged by on any given week. 

Whether its Brian Taamaki - who after literally decades taking to the streets and stirring the pot - nobody should be outraged by.

Or whether's it's a bunch of chicks in bikinis rolling around in cow's milk trying to make a buck on OnlyFans.

The Police were called. 

Yes, I kid you not. Couple of lasses. Bikini clad. Making some wholesome down-on-the-farm country-style content. And SAFE gets involved. 

Then MPI contacts the Police. 

What on earth are the police going to do with two girls, one cow? 

Who on earth would they arrest? Some might say the cow was lucky to be milked.

Besides, what's more indecent? Girls in bikinis or the naked cow? 

The answer of course is rather simple. Police will do nothing. MPI will do nothing. Because there's actually nothing to do anything about. 

Same goes for Brian and his gang of thugs. To be fair to him and them, I didn't pay any attention to their protest at the weekend. 

I was too busy enjoying my long weekend. 

But from what I've read, a few flags were burnt and signs waved about. People are calling for hate speech laws and restrictions on speech and all sorts of things. 

Guess what? That also won't happen. And nor should it. 

The bar for criminal charges is rightly high. People must be free to air their views - no matter how distasteful or wrong. 

Boils must be lanced, so long as they're lanced peacefully. 

Besides, you don't have to look too far into the world section of your newspaper this morning for a glimpse at why we should value freedom of expression. Russia. Iran, anybody?

As for the udder story, so long as the cow's aren't being mis-teated, I'm heifer it!

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