On Feb 14, 3:23 pm, Lew Hartswick wrote:

Secondly I'm surely glad I'm not in the UK if calling some of the
"flakes" in the environmental movement Nazis would get me in trouble.

There is no such law in the UK (beyond the normal libel laws).
However, it does break Godwin's Law:

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
There is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such a
comparison is made, the thread is over, and whoever mentioned the
Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress."


Dan