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In your view then, should schooling, vaccinations, trans surgeries, social media access also be entirely up to the parent?

Second to that, the law doesn't prohibit anyone from accessing these things outright; but rather ensuring that children don't get access to these things absent of their parent's approval — just as you indicate is your view here. Put another way, an adult parent could indeed log into pornhub on their behalf, no?

Free speech answers that, too. Expressing an opinion we disapprove of isn’t an exception to free speech: for that we can express our condemnation.

Yeah that's all fine and dandy to free-speech hard-righty absolutists, conveniently enough, but no, that's not my view; nor is it a representative of some V For vendetta authoritarianism to recognize objectively-wrong speech.

Tell me, do you or do you not subscribe to the "punch a nazi" notion of not being tolerant to intolerance?

Restricting private access to information while raising risk of identity fraud & abusing the rights of protesters with loose definitions of terrorism isn’t heading to your cartoonish idea of a dystopia?

As I had originally stated in my response, this would be a step towards that, yes, as I felt it was the most substantive point of your response to me; but not on the "doorstep"—as I had stated—itself. We will circle back to this following the Three High Court ruling in the coming weeks.

Far-right extremists want nothing more than free speech absolutism because it is convenient to their shallow tropes to dupe the masses; hence why far-right extremism is on the rise throughout the globe in the first place. So goes the adage, a lie travels half-way around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.

To reiterate, the source that you cited is not in reference to those cases, but specifically about hate speech and cyber-bullying — both clear problems that have aided in the rise of far-right extremism across the globe already. Put another way, we've had free speech absolutist social media and internet for decades, and we've only gone further rightward as a result. I'll quote directly the source you cited in which I'm referring:

The application of Germany's decades-old speech laws were strengthened after its darkest chapter, and then was accelerated online after an assassination of a politician, fueled by the internet, sent shockwaves through the country. In 2015, a video of a local politician named Walter Lübcke went viral after he defended then-Chancellor Angela Merkel's progressive immigration policy.

"People with a very right political world view, they started hating him on the internet. They started insulting him. They started to incite people to kill him. And that went on for about four years," Meininghaus said.

This Stochastic terrorism threat is real, and in fact was utilized in Israel just the same when then-candidate Bibi engaged in the same stochastic rhetoric and inspired a radical to assassinate Yitzhak Rabin.

Defamation, Slander, Libel cases are common. Misattribution even under plagiarism is another aspect of commonly regulated speech. I don't have much a problem with false quotes on high-profile figures not classified directly as comedy having some capacity for removal. This is how lies travel faster than truths around the world. Again, hardly a sign that UK is turning fascist.

So, what exactly IS your solution to inhibit the far-right except for moderate or left-wing governments to directly deal with said hate speech? (And no, I don't consider Pro-Palestinian protesters hate speech of course; which is why this Court ruling is so pivotal).

Finally, hateful words are still words. Has this generation forgotten how to handle words?

It is extremely ironic one says this, considering the strict Hate Speech laws of Germany originated from their direct experience with propagating fascism at home in the 1930s, 1940s and learning through pain and suffering inflicted on others as well as themselves. Volksverhetzung was suspended conveniently enough during the Nazi era, and only post-war was it codified into law. So the question may be reversed: Have YOU forgotten the potency of these words, gone unchecked?