After the comedian, a senior cabinet minister has criticized the police Graham line Transgender people were arrested on tweets.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said that the government is protected by “policing roads, not only policing tweets”. Legislation can be seen If “balance was not correct” on law -free speech.
He said: “It is very easy for the people to criticize the police. The police implements the laws of the land that we provide by the legislators,”, he told Times Radio. “So if we are not balanced, then this is something that we all have to see and consider.”
Mr. Steting’s intervention followed a deep controversy after the arrest of Father Ted Writer Lineon at Heathro Airport on arrival on a flight from the US.
Indicating the rejection of the treatment of the line, Mr. Streeting said that it was wrong to blame the police for what had happened.
He said, “They were only working according to the laws to combat online misuse, which were approved by Parliament”, he told the BBC Radio Four: “They are to implement Parliament to enforce the law and we cannot go to the police if we are not getting the law right.”
Mr. Streeting said that it was right to underline those who used social media to harass and misuse others, or illegally sell drugs and weapons. However, when working with free speeches online, “reference king is,” he said: “We will really have to walk carefully when it comes to the limits of free speech.”
Mr. Streeting was “proud to live in a country where we come like a ton bricks on racism and discrimination”, but always used to happen: “Valid boundaries when it comes to free speech – which is about protecting others from losses … Sometimes those boundaries are blurred”.
The intervention of Mr. Streeting follows the claims of the Irish comedian on Tuesday. He was arrested “like a terrorist” Five armed police officers who arrived from Arizona at Heathro Airport, who told him that he was “under arrest for three tweets”.
Metropolitan Police It is said that in his half -century, a person was arrested at 1 pm on Monday at the airport, which was suspected of inciting the violence related to the posts, although he did not confirm the identification of the figure.
Lineon claimed on his blog that he was arrested for three tweets, which was originally posted in April, one of which called people to “call call to the police” on trans-guards and “if everything else fails, punch it in balls”.
Another post showed a crowd of people in a protest, many transgender and LGBT+ pride flags, which they wrote on top: “A picture that you can sniff.”
The third post he claimed that he was arrested, in response to someone who commented under this picture, where he said: “I hate him. Micoginist and Homofob. F *** M.”.
Lineon claimed that he was making a “serious point made with a joke”. He wrote in his blog that his single bail status is that he does not go on X, and he faces another interview in October.
The controversial comedy writer is already facing trial in the Westminster Magistrate Court on Thursday on two different charges. One on social media is in relation to harassing transgender activists Sophia Brooks, and the other is to harm Ms. Brook’s mobile phone in October. He denied the allegations at a hearing on 12 May.
Lineon is rapidly known for sharing anti-trans rites online in recent years that has attracted significant criticism from LGBT+ groups. In 2020, his Twitter account was banned permanently for “repeated violations of our rules against” disgusting conduct and stage manipulation “.
While his account was later restored in December 2022 when Elon Musk captured the social media platform, Lineon has said that his “informal” views on trans rights have inspired him to blacklist him from the entertainment industry and is the cost of his marriage.
Sri Streeting has faced himself criticism from transgender activists after returning claims in 2024 that “trans women are women, trans male” and gender-mathematical feminist “Bigott”.