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"Real Time" host Bill Maher urged Americans on Friday to support free speech without conditions to avoid becoming like the United Kingdom, which has greatly increased its enforcement of speech violations over the past few years.

While speaking about freedom-of-speech violations that he felt President Donald Trump committed in recent years, including a proposal to make flag burning punishable by prison time, Maher warned that the United States cannot follow in the footsteps of the U.K.

"This country can't become that, but it also can't become what the UK is now, a place where you get arrested for tweets, something that happens 12,000 times a year now in Britain," he cautioned.

The 12,000 number comes from a stat via th

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