Brtain’s Technology and Science Secretary has announced plans to jail social-media executives if they fail to censor so-called “harmful” content on their websites.
The UK government will of course determine what is deemed too harmful for citizens to see or hear.
Michelle Donelan is seeking speech arrests under the UK’s Online Safety Bill, a draconian censorship bill that would effectively ban end-to-end encryption for private internet users.
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Activist Post reports: The bill uses Britain’s broadcasting regulator Ofcom to censor “all forms of expression which spread, incite, promote or justify hatred” based on various progressive characteristics, including transgenderism.
So the government can censor anyone who it views as promoting or justifying hatred against virtually any group. Those who do not censor can now be rounded up by Donelan and her minions.
According to a report by The Telegraph, companies will also face fines of up to 10 per cent of their global revenue should they dare to ignore Britain’s demands to preemptively delete or obscure posts violating its coming censorship regime.
The decline of free speech in the United Kingdom has long been a concern for free-speech advocates.
A man was convicted for sending a tweet while drunk referring to dead soldiers.
Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt.
Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “leprechaun.”
Yet another was arrested for singing “Kung Fu Fighting.”
A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a “cult.”
Limeys get dumber everyday.
But they can call anyone anything with impunity. They can publish any vicious hateful propagandas deemed politically correct. By the moral authority for rule of law.
THESE PEOPLE NEED TO BE REMOVED FROM THIER TYRANNY. PROMPLTY.
For fair judgement. How about accepting the truth linked to facts. Will this be accepted or rejected?