The US is just the other side of the coin; people have been arrested and even deported for leading protests over Gaza that were not violent. Citizens themselves have protection from the 1st Amendment, but even then, the Government will use what power it has to make life difficult for you.
Being free speech is easy when it's speech you like; the test is when it's speech you don't. Farage is no different in wanting police action against speech he doesn't like:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/...milkshake-joke
Quote:
The BBC has defended the comedian Jo Brand against claims she incited violence in comments she made during a radio show.
Brand, who joined the Heresy talk show on Radio 4 as a guest on Tuesday, joked about throwing battery acid at “unpleasant characters” instead of milkshakes.
Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit party and one of several European election candidates that had milkshakes thrown on them in recent weeks, tweeted: “This is incitement of violence and the police need to act.”
On the show, Brand said: “Why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?”
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It's the same the other way around with people who were saying that Kneecap shouldn't be prosecuted for the stuff they said as part of a performance (although I do think they were getting quite close to borderline) saying Graham Linehan should be. If you set that standard for Linehan, then it will come around to bite you. I think this is especially obvious when Reform are leading in the polls, good luck with what will happen when they take power.