For context: hundreds (maybe thousands?) of people in the UK have now been arrested for carrying banners with messages supportive of Palestine Action, which was 'proscribed' as a 'terrorist organisation' for some acts of property damage.
MPs celebrated the suffragettes -- who burned and blew things up in the name of securing political change -- in the same week that they voted for this outrageously repressive measure[1].
That conflates what Rooney is doing/saying with the actual repression of speech in the UK. She is saying she will actually fund terrorism and LARPing at civil disobedience without being willing to face the consequences. So not really civil disobedience.
Rooney is Irish, not British (nor a resident in Britain), so it's perfectly normal for her to try to avoid the consequences of a foreign regime trying to oppress its population.
In the same way, someone who supports the Azov brigade, would be expected to face consequences in Russia (and find difficulties in getting their books distributed) since Russia proscribed the Azov brigade, but precisely because of that... we wouldn't be asking of them to travel to Russia "to face the consequences"
MPs celebrated the suffragettes -- who burned and blew things up in the name of securing political change -- in the same week that they voted for this outrageously repressive measure[1].
[1] https://www.thenational.scot/news/25287205.westminster-celeb...).