The dictates of the neo-redcoat British government, led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, are out of control.
Starmer’s Labour government wants the whole world to obey its censorship demands. The latest is that its Office of Communications, called Ofcom, is threatening the American social media platforms Gab and Kiwi Farms with mega-steep fines for unwaveringly safeguarding the freedom of speech of users.
Which of course Gab and Kiwi Farms have every right to do.
Ofcom says it’ll sock Gab with fines of up $23 million USD for refusing to censor its users per UK orders.
“We will not pay one cent,” says Gab CEO Andrew Torba.
Gab is not only not cooperating with Ofconjob’s insanity, it has also reported the Starmer government to the U.S. Trade Representative and the U.S. Department of Justice in hopes that the U.S. government will retaliate against the United Kingdom for trying to gag social media in the United States.
Kiwi Farms, threatened with the same fine of up to 10 percent of worldwide revenue, is telling UK users who want to use the site to access it through a VPN or Tor in order to protect their online traffic and disguise which country they’re from. Otherwise, they’re out of luck.
Kiwi has also reported success in obtaining pro bono counsel for dealing with “the UK’s attempts to enforce its censorship regime in the United States.”
As the U.S. president famously said in Butler, Pennsylvania: “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
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6 replies on “Against British Censorship”
The United States should end diplomatic relations and military alliance with the UK, and warn US citizens that they will be afforded no protections by the US while in the UK.
The fruits of globalism are ripening. How’s that New World Order working out for everyone? An American company can be fined by a foreign nation based on global revenues? So much for national sovereignty.
Starmer and the entire UK government can take a long walk off a short pier, preferably with lead overshoes.
One of the tariffs that the EU can levy against the U.S. is one on information such as Apple, Meta and Google! That will wake the administration up.
“ The European Commission is expected to fine Apple and Meta this week for violating the EU’s digital competition rules, thrusting Big Tech into the escalating trade war between the United States and the European Union.
The EU executive is due to announce the results of three yearlong investigations into breaches of the bloc’s Digital Markets Act, two into Apple and one into Meta. Both companies are expected to receive fines — the first issued under the DMA — with announcements that could come as late as the end of the week.”
Every one ready for higher prices and a recession?
Dow futures down 723 Long term pain ahead!