Incredibly, the U.K. wants to enforce its draconian censorship laws in the United States.
According to Data Fidelity, an Australian tech site:
Internal communications now made public by the US House Judiciary Committee shed light on a pattern of escalating pressure by the UK’s “communications regulator,” Ofcom, aimed at pushing US-based tech platforms like Rumble and Reddit into adopting strict speech standards, even in apparent disregard for national boundaries and free speech protections.
The emails expose how Ofcom has been leaning on Rumble to align itself with the UK’s Online Safety Act, a censorship law that vastly expands the state’s oversight of online content under the guise of child protection and harm prevention.
Take to the internet or social media to criticize the LGBTQ community or Islam?
You may be paid a visit by the constabulary.
Criticize the U.K.’s leaders?
You might get to visit Scotland Yard.
Criticize gay, trans, or Muslim U.K. leaders?
God help you. (Not that many people in formerly Jolly Olde England believe in the God of the Bible anymore. Which may explain the current state of affairs in Britain.)
It is utterly preposterous that any nation, let alone one as diminished yet allegedly tolerant as the U.K., would seek to enforce and impose its own anti-speech, anti-freedom agenda on a foreign land.
Talk about digital colonization and cultural imperialism!
Hellbound and Down 