The United States has basically the greatest free speech regime in the history of the world. In no other country on Earth can you speak as freely and openly as you can here. It's great.

I hold a lot of healthy criticism for countries like the United Kingdom, where it's much easier to be prosecuted by the government, and sued by private citizens, merely for saying offensive things.

Yet I have to admit, seeing those laws wielded this way is richly satisfying:

See, J.K. Rowling has had the temerity to claim that men shouldn't be allowed access to intimate women's facilities like bathrooms, changing rooms and women's prisons. I know, radical stuff.

Transgender advocates believe this makes her quite literally Hitler. And they haven't been shy about making that lunatic comparison:

Now, I'm no British legal scholar, but it seems to me that falsely accusing the world's richest author of being a genocidal psychopath, in a country with bracingly robust libel laws, when you yourself likely have no resources beyond whatever hourly rate you make as a secretary at the local university gender center — well, call me crazy, but that doesn't seem too wise.

Spoiler alert: It wasn't!

"Give my regards to your solicitor" is legal speak for "Start saying your prayers because I am about to nuke you from orbit." And this fellow, bless his heart, got the message loud and clear:

"I failed to choose my words with care." You sure did, buddy!

Good show, J.K.! Keep up the great work!