Wednesday, August 14, 2024

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Maybe you've seen the videos of protest, mobs and riots taking place in Britain in the last week. As one Brit puts it, the UK has been on fire.

Their new Prime Minister wants to crack down on the turmoil. To squash the protests, he's going after freedom of speech. His government called on big tech firms to do more censoring. The owner of X doesn't feel compelled to comply.

Now they're warning all individual users of social media:  

"You may be committing a crime if you repost, repeat or amplify a message which is false, threatening, or stirs up racial / religious hatred." Wait, who is the judge of social media posts? Who decides what is false or hateful? They have police who scan for guilty posts and arrest the perp.

This author traces a pretty long decline in freedom of speech in Britain.

from Spiked

 (cont'd tomorrow)

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