This is crazy.
Local authoritarianism continues to spread, with a rash of local councils abusing their power to make Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs) to crack down on speech they don’t like. Previously, the FSU has succeeded in persuading Redbridge and Cumberland councils to back down from making PSPOs which would have unlawfully restricted the speech rights of their residents.Last week, Thanet District Council passed a PSPO of their own, and this is the worst one we have seen. https://freespeechunion.org/fsu-threatens-judicial-review-over-thanet-county-councils-speech-restrictive-pspo/This is part of the content;
I. Anti-Social group congregation All persons are prohibited from congregating as part of a group of 2 or more and being abusive, alarming, threatening, insulting, intimidating, harassing, distressing or otherwise causing a disturbance to other members of the public, for such duration as specified when directed not to do so by an authorised officer. Example: a group of protesters gathers outside the Council offices loudly chanting slogans objecting to a planned development on the outskirts of town.II. Misuse of public space All persons are prohibited from using any public space, facility or installation otherwise in accordance with its intended use, or when directed not to do so by an authorised officer on the grounds that the use or behaviour is causing or is likely to cause harassment alarm or distress to others. Example: a preacher stands in Margate Old Town Market, the intended use of which is the buying and selling of goods, and delivers a sermon expressing traditional Christian beliefs about sexuality.VII. Inappropriate harmful and degrading related activity All persons are prohibited from being abusive to any person or people and behaving in a way which is or is likely to be humiliating or degrading to another person or people. All persons are prohibited from using language or behaviour causing or likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to any other person. This includes comments and behaviour, being cruel, pejorative, or of a demeaning nature that results in a loss of dignity or respect for women and girls within the identified zone (schedule 1). Example: an atheist activist gives a public speech in which she denies the existence of a god and mocks Christianity, which is distressing to religious passersby, some of whom are female.