US Congress Blames Keir Starmer as it Blasts Britain for Copying EU’s Censorship Laws Threatening Free Speech
The US Congress has blamed Sir Keir Starmer as it blasted Britain for copying the EU’s censorship laws, warning of a “direct threat” to free speech. GB News has more.
The US Congress has name-checked Sir Keir Starmer as it delivered a stinging verdict on Britain’s “copycat censorship laws”, warning of a “direct threat” to free speech.
In a report published today, the US Committee on the Judiciary said the European Commission is heading up a global push to impose “strict digital censorship laws” — with the UK’s Online Safety Act singled out as the most prominent attempt to replicate Brussels’ approach.
The Online Safety Act aims to protect children and adults online and as of last year, includes the use of age checks on platforms, including X, Reddit and TikTok.
The report reads: “In many ways, the [European] Commission is leading a global effort for strict digital censorship laws.
“Copycat bills have emerged in Australia, South Korea and elsewhere around the world as censorious foreign officials have taken to US universities to plan their global censorship regime.
“Perhaps the most notable foreign attempt to imitate the Digital Services Act has been the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act.”
The US Congress goes on to accuse regulators in Britain of using the Online Safety Act to “threaten American platforms with regulatory retaliation”.
The report adds Sir Keir is prepared to go further still and is now “threatening to take X offline in the UK”.
Media watchdog Ofcom launched an investigation into X last month following reports its AI chatbot Grok created and shared sexualised images of children with the Prime Minister subsequently requesting “all options to be on the table”, sparking speculation of a possible ban on the social media platform.
The US Congress also cited previous “oversight” which shows regulators such as Ofcom “sought to censor legitimate political speech” critical of the Government, referencing widespread riots in the summer of 2024 following the Southport attack.
“The Online Safety Act paves the way for Ofcom, the UK’s relevant regulatory authority, to regulate how social media platforms ‘should deal with [so-called] disinformation and misinformation’,” the report states.
“The Committee’s oversight has previously shown that British regulators sought to censor legitimate political speech criticising the Government, including ‘narratives’ about a ‘two-tier’ system of justice in the UK, during large-scale riots in August 2024.
“British regulators have also used the Online Safety Act to threaten American platforms with regulatory retaliation if they do not ‘embed [British] standards’ on topics like ‘hate’ speech into their content moderation policies.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Police have raided the French offices of Elon Musk’s X as part of a criminal investigation into its Grok AI chatbot. According to the Telegraph:
The investigation was started early last year after complaints from French members of Parliament, who alleged that X’s recommendation systems were biased and may have distorted the operation of automated data-processing systems.
Since then, it has been broadened to examine a series of suspected offences, including the alleged facilitation of sexually explicit deepfakes, the spread of Holocaust denial material and the possible complicity in the possession and dissemination of illegal images involving minors.
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2TK just can’t help himself. His whole mindset is bent towards suppression and censorship of anything that goes against his own world view. This is a result of his own complete inability to debate any issue – very noticeable at PMQs, where he demonstrates a frightening lack of intellectual rigour. He is the prime example of a f***-wit’s f***wit. The intellectual ability of a gnat – although that is probably being a little unfair to the gnat.
He has his loyalties to consider – and needless to say, they’re not to the people of this country.
“I prefer Davos”——–His loyalties are to his bosses at the UN and WEF.
Curious how they’re all obsessed with Elon and twitter- almost as if the globalists are really pissed off with the man responsible more than anybody else alive for maintaining any semblance of free speech for non-communists and determined to shit him down.
He has excellent form shutting down and denouncing non-communists when they threatened to expose the fraud perpetrated with taxpayers’ money at Tesla.
Pass the popcorn!
The real aim of the Online Safety Act is the same as it was when the fake-conservatives launched it – to stop people learning the truth when the government and MSM are lying to them.
Why would they care so much about under 16s seeing inappropriate content when they don’t care about under 16s being gang-raped?
When people are afraid to speak out for fear of causing offence or punishment, they self censor in everything they say – and innovation and economic growth are stopped in their tracks.
Trump is a massive hypocrite who changes the goalposts when it suits, though.
Just the other day the huz was telling me how a colleague from his department went over to the US on a 5 day business trip and was detained at San Diego Airport, taken to a room where it was explained to him he was being denied entry to the country because he posted an anti-Trump comment on social media. He had to ring the company so they could send someone else and he was put on the next flight back to the Netherlands.
I wish I knew the deets of the post but unfortunately I don’t. Probably just something critical of the Trump administration and what’s happening over there. I’m presuming it wasn’t along the: “Trump is a Nazi and needs to die!” lines…😬 I was surprised they could even find online posts of everybody flying into the US, though.
Er . . . . . . huz, deets?
Husband, details. My bad…🤭
If the story is US Congress why pick a picture of the leader of another branch of government?
That’s rich coming from the Europeans about holocaust denial, given that they have imported an entire culture that denies the Holocaust and Jews.
The Communist EU and UK only want “government approved speech”, because their policies on mass immigration, energy/climate, gender nonsense etc etc are so totally absurd they realise that the only way to get away with this complete clutter of garbage is to SILENCE BAN AND JAIL
Censorship is what Authoritarian Regimes (Communist and Fascist) do. It’s the only way they can keep control.
There is nothing democratic about the EU and very little that is democratic about the post-Blair UK.
The no-holds-barred Congressional inquiry into the Covid affair has been a wonder to behold.