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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Unfortunately, stunts by stupid people won’t help us and
We urge President Trump to tariff the UK into oblivion.
is a profoundly stupid statement. A tariff is something like fine people importing goods from foreign countries into a territory the tariff applies to have to pay. This means the immediate outcome of such a course of action is to make goods from the UK, like (Scotch) Whisky, more expensive in the USA, which is bad for people in the USA who might have wanted to buy such products. A secondary outcome is that this may affect the revenue of businesses in the UK if the higher price of British goods in the USA reduces sales of
them.
Ofcom in particular and the (present) UK government in general probably couldn’t care less about reduced revenue for certain UK businesses. They’re probably all evil Carbon polluters, anyway (a viewpoint the Milied could very well have). Hence, US tariffs help the UK to reach its climate goals! Win!
Make no mistake, God sent President Trump
Unless you prefer 9 more years of Keir Stalin of course. We’re way past bankruptcy under successive government’s
Trump is the “America first!” guy and while this is abstractly to be commended for a political leader, it means that Trump is an enemy of the about 7.7 billion people on this planet which are not US citizens and especially of the 744.5 million people living in Europe he routinely accuses of taking ‘unfair’ advantage of the USA.
Eg, Germany is not a sovereign state but really ruled (like much of Europe) on behalf of the US democrats and the international organizations they created for this purpose, first and foremost, the UN. And Trumps idea of foreign policy wrt to Germany is not free the German people from this US-imposed yoke but accused them of being thus yoked and punish them for it.
This goes in line with the nice Thucydides quote that The strong do whatever they want and the weak suffer what they must. It’s useless to moan about that. But building the strong altars to celebrate them (“God sent ….”) because they do whatever they want is certainly neither required not the decent and self-respecting thing to do.
The more censorship they introduce the more suspicious we become.
Covid was a good example of how censorship creates distrust.
The more they said “safe and effective” the less I believed it.
As censorship increases, trust in those responsible for it decreases.
Trust, once lost, is extremely difficult to earn back.
“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.”
If ever a so-called official mouthpiece eg government, states that it’s actions are intended to protect children it is a lie. Anything to protect children is a cover-all and certainly Kneel CGAF about children. This is not just about destroying freedom of speech but more about closing the gates entirely on the British people.
I seriously never thought anybody could be worse or more treacherous than Bliar but this Next Tuesday is going to leave him in the starting blocks.
Unbelievable.
State-sponsored censorship masquerading as online-safety knows exactly what it’s doing. Ofcom is a security service operating straight out of the CCP playbook.
Official mouthpiece, eg government. As Ronald Reagan said: “The eleven most terrifying words in the English language…’I am from the Government and I am here to help.'”
Will ofcom come after the Daily Sceptic next?. Always remember history proves, that the people will ALWAYS prevail.
Interesting article on the GAB news website about the case for a segregated internet.
https://news.gab.com/2025/03/the-case-for-a-segregated-internet/
The Online Safety Act is doing exactly what it was designed to do. Our authoritarian officialdom won’t shed a tear that Gab has withdrawn its service, it will celebrate a job well done.
Get a VPN and select a server location in the US or outside the UK and you can access Gab. Spoiler – it’s not up to much anyway, and carries a lot of anti-Jewish junk.
Will you tell me how do I set about doing this please?
I haven’t used any of these myself, but you could have a look at this:
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Thank you.
The one I use. You can go here: https://www.expressvpn.com/
Then click on “Get ExpressVPN”.
It is a subscription service costing US$8.33 per month.
There are others with different prices features so shop around…try here for options…
https://www.vpnmentor.com/best-vpn-for-united-kingdom/?keyword=best%20vpn%20uk&geo=41471&device=&utm_source=bing&adid=75454067456721&msclkid=a19f682153a113933b470fdeeda03cba
It does look like the UK (and the EU) are beginning to be treated like the Soviet Union. I’m increasingly reading articles from free Americans that Western Europe are no longer trustworthy. Something I suppose most people here have known for some time now.
Stasi Starmer is doubling down, not only imprisoning dissenters but creating laws to allow them to spy on citizens. The whole basis of our post war settlement is falling apart and the Socilists/Commies are at the heart of it yet again.
If my father’s hard earned military medal was not so precious to me I would send it back.