Scotland’s new hate crime law is making headlines around the world with a key question at the heart of the debate -- will this law have a chilling impact on free speech? Scotland already has laws that deal with hate crime but the new ‘Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act’ creates an offence of “threatening or abusive behaviour which is intended to stir up hatred” on the grounds of age, disability, religion, sexual orientation etc.
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