Your example is the burning of a religious text, which is provocative enough to be scooped up, even if incorrectly, by hate speech laws. It's absurd to suggest proposing ideas about supermarket self-checkouts is anything like that, and it's also absurd to suggest the UK is the only country where people are wrongfully arrested – unless you're suggesting the USA has a healthier police system?

And if you want to throw evidence into a debate, you might want to choose a publication with a bit more standing than whatever random partisan blog this is.