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"path": "/2026/04/29/industrial-language-ban-in-public-spaces-has-a-chilling-effect-on-free-speech-say-experts/",
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"textContent": "Across England and Wales, a quiet but consequential shift is underway in the regulation of everyday behaviour. What began as a targeted response to serious antisocial conduct has expanded into a diffuse system of control over ordinary public life—one that, according to campaigners and legal observers, now risks undermining the basic conditions of free expression. […]",
"title": "Industrial Language Ban in Public Spaces Has a “Chilling Effect on Free Speech,” Say Experts"
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