Following the news that BitChute has suspended operations in the UK because it believes complying with the Online Safety Act is incompatible with its commitment to free speech, Gab has now blocked users in the UK from accessing its website. If you click on Gab.com in the UK, all you can see is a page with a quote from Milton at the top – “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties” – and then the following notice:
ACCESS RESTRICTED BY PROVIDER
After receiving yet another demand from the UK’s speech police, Ofcom, Gab has made the decision to block the entire United Kingdom from accessing our website.
This latest email from Ofcom ordered us to disclose information about our users and operations. We know where this leads: compelled censorship and British citizens thrown in jail for “hate speech.” We refuse to comply with this tyranny.
Gab is an American company with zero presence in the UK. Ofcom’s demands have no legal force here. To enforce anything in the United States, they’d need to go through a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request or letters rogatory. No U.S. court is going to enforce a foreign censorship regime. The First Amendment forbids it.
Ofcom will likely try to make an example of us anyway. That’s because the UK’s Online Safety Act isn’t about protecting children. It’s about suppressing dissent.
They’re welcome to try. The idea that a British regulator can pressure a U.S. company that’s IP-blocking the entire UK is as farcical as it is futile. If anything, it proves our point: censorship doesn’t work. It only reveals the truth about the censors.
We proudly join platforms like Bitchute in boycotting the United Kingdom. American companies should follow suit. The power of the UK’s parliament ends where the First Amendment begins.
The only way to vote against the tyranny of the UK’s present regime is to walk away from it, refuse to comply, and take refuge under the impervious shelter of the First Amendment.
The UK’s rulers want their people kept in the dark. Let them see how long the public tolerates it as their Internet vanishes, one website at a time.
The internet vanishing one website at a time? It’s beginning to feel that way.
You can read more about Gab’s run-in with Ofcom on its news site, which so far isn’t blocked in the UK.
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Such weakminded thinking, that says
Natural == Good
aridet aridum, was the motto of the Leeds man who drained the Norfolk Fens of their natural sogginess. Yet the Green Blob goes into overdrive whenever the waters reclaim their place, screaming that “man-made climate change” is causing flooding which in turn, they say, is robbing the poor nesting birds of their homes (and the nimbys of their back yards).
You can’t fix ignorant and stupid.
Correction, arridet aridum
Can I assume that a ‘Special Representative for Nature’ will campaign ferociously to stop our green and pleasant land from being covered in solar panels and to prevent our skies being infested with bird killing windmills? Also will this Nature representative fervently make representations to the Foreign Office to speak out against the lithium mines which are devastating the environment in some areas of our planet in order to save the planet by pushing us all into EVs?
Will she be looking into why there has been a big increase in strandings of whales, dolphins and porpoises around the UK shores that seems to correlate with the increase in the off shore windmill industry….no, thought not.
Well said but I don’t think it will happen.
Not a chance!
Does this mean that all foreign aid will be dependent on receiving countries agreeing to turn their backs on cheap energy (i.e. carbon-based fuels) and stifle their emerging economies so that they can join the UK on the descent back down to poverty in a net-zero world?
“In fact, why not abolish Parliament – do away with the pretence that there is any form of representative democracy in Westminster?”
This is the problem. Our ‘representatives’ are not interested in representing ‘the people’. There is too much at stake for them to give up the lucrative gravy train they have embarked on as a career choice. Somehow the selection process for candidates has to be on the basis of their commitment to the community/nation rather the the tribe/party they choose to represent. Government has become an organised dodgy cartel full of rent seekers and revolving door grifters. Perhaps a system that selects people at random like the Jury service, selecting candidates from a pool of people of a certain age and experience and other criteria would work better? And also, limit their term of office to one parliament or a maximum term of four-five years to eradicate career politicians milking the system.
If the public had wanted all these Green policies, they would have voted for the Green Party, which would have a large majority in Parliament. But the public DIDN’T vote for the Green Party or its crazed, destructive policies.
For years the Green Party had only ONE MP in Parliament. Now they have FOUR.
And yet every political party is carrying out Extreme Green policies WITHOUT A MANDATE from the voters, without permission from the voters, without the consent of the voters.
It’s a travesty of democracy.
If she will “put climate and nature at the heart of our foreign policy” then she will undoubtedly promote the creation of CO2 as the ‘Oxygen’ of plant life, especially since atmospheric CO2 values are currently so low.
Hope dies last.