UK. June 2, 2025. British rapper Zuby says in a recent X post that over 1,000 people per month are arrested in the United Kingdom over social media posts. When challenged for a source, Zuby provided links to two news reports. gbnews.com/news/uk/uk-police-free-speech-britain… https://thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-make-30-arrests-a-day-for-offensive-online-messages-zbv886tqf#:~:text=Custody%20data%20obtained%20by%20The,the%20Malicious%20Communications%20Act%201988…. Grok AI backed up Zuby’s remark as well.
Category: Free speech under siege
Feb 23
British government now sending police to knock on doors of those who criticize Labour Party
Manchester, England. Feb. 23, 2025. Blogger Peter Sweden has posted the story of Grandmother Helen Jones, who had police pound on her door for posting that Labour Party officials should resign. British “authorities” have been increasingly monitoring social media posts and jailing citizens who post things the government dislikes.
Feb 21
A study in totalitarian evil: Brazilian “Judge” Alexandre de Moraes
A global movement by governments and elites to impose mass censorship on social media platforms has arisen over the past decade. This movement has become intertwined with the “left” worldwide. Even in the United States, where “the left” was formerly identified with free speech advocacy, this change is palpable. In Brazil the forces of censorship …
Aug 26
The censorship industrial complex is now truly global.
Paris. Aug. 26. Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, remains in a Paris jail cell as of Monday morning. Durov was arrested Friday “as part of an investigation into Telegram’s lack of content moderation and the platform’s role in allegedly enabling criminal activity, according to the Washington Post.” Durov previously fled Russia in 2014 after refusing to hand …
Aug 25
French government arrests CEO of Telegram for refusing to censor.
Paris. August 24, 2024. Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after landing on a private jet late on Saturday. Reuters reports that “BFM and TF1 said that Durov, who has dual French and United Arab Emirates citizenship, was arrested …
Mar 31
FBI is amping up home visits to chat with people about their Facebook posts
Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit is out with a terrifying news story about the FBI visiting people at their homes to talk about Facebook posts. A muslim woman named Rolla Abdeljawad was visited at her home in Stillwater, Oklahoma by two men in plain clothes claiming to be FBI agents. The “agents” questioned Abdeljawad …
Feb 25
While the US government secretly directed censorship at other social media platforms, it PROSECUTED and destroyed another platform, Gettr, for offering freer speech.
While the US government was secretly directing Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Google to censor anti-government ideas, a handful of smaller social media platforms popped up, advertising themselves as free-speech platforms. One example was Gettr. But Gettr is now languishing financially, and deep in debt. Hundreds of Gettr workers have now been laid off. Gettr’s …
Feb 16
Canadian Lawmaker introduces Bill to imprison people who “suggest that a fossil fuel “would lead to positive outcomes in relation to the environment, the health of Canadians, reconciliation with indigenous peoples or the Canadian or global economy.”
Ottowa. Feb. 16, 2024. Charlie Angus, a far left Canadian member of Parliament, has introduced C-372: An Act respecting fossil fuel advertising. The totalitarian bill specifies penalties for producers (“on conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding $1,000,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both”) and individuals of …
Jan 28
Thailand Courts sentence man to 50 years in prison for criticizing the king.
Every government ultimately comes for all freedom, all property, all money, and to kill all who resist. Governments everywhere are constantly waging war on criticism and free exchange of ideas. Now a court in Thailand has handed down an unprecedented 50-year prison sentence to a man convicted of violating the country’s strict laws that criminalize …
Jan 13
Journalists are in an organized effort to push censorship on Substack
New York City. Columbia School of Journalism. Jan. 13, 2024. “The Atlantic” Magazine, a far-left, pro-government extremist publication, recently published an article entitled Substack Has a Nazi Problem. The article made a number of factual claims, including a claim that large numbers of “nazis” are now on the Substack platform writing profitable columns with mountains …