It feels like time to return to the subject matter of the thread. As ever it tends to get derailed.
So let's recap what actually happened. A former policeman himself, a man named Harry Miller, was questioned by the Humberside Constabulary for "liking" a tweet which contained a "limerick".
Mr Miller, who believes 'trans women are not women', says the formal probe by Humberside Police was into his 'thinking' and his reasons for liking the limerick on Twitter...
'Cop said he was in possession of 30 tweets by me,' he recalled on Twitter. 'I asked if any contained criminal material. He said "No."
'I asked if any came close to being criminal and he read me a limerick. Honestly. A limerick. A cop read me a limerick over the phone.'
Luckily the copper said it wasn't criminal but would be recorded as a "hate incident."
The tweet contained the following (which isn't actually a limerick):
"Your breasts are made of silicone
Your vagina goes nowhere
And we can tell the difference
Even when you are not there
Your hormones are synthetic
And let's just cross this bridge
What you have, you stupid man
Is male privilege."
Any society which allows the police to legally investigate a citizen for checking the heart icon under a tweet containing such a verse can no longer call itself free.
It is as simple as that.