| ▲ | 0xy a day ago |
| Probably because the admin has been vocal and proactive about extraterritorial overreach by European countries hellbent on global censorship programs. The UK has thrown thousands of people in jail for speech on social media, as has Germany. Both of those countries also attempt to censor speech OUTSIDE of their own countries too. https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20... |
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| ▲ | klaff a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| >The UK has thrown thousands of people in jail for speech on social media, as has Germany. Source? |
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| ▲ | 0xy a day ago | parent [-] | | Certainly. The UK routinely and repeatedly jails people for protected speech, including speech protected by international standards. [1] [2] [3] [1] https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-kingdom/freedom-net/... [2] "Internet freedom declined in the United Kingdom during the coverage period due to a reported increase in criminal charges for online speech" [3] "A separate report from The Telegraph found that 292 people had been charged for spreading false information and “threatening communications” under the Online Safety Act between when it came into effect in 2023 and February 2025. Some civil liberties groups expressed concern that the laws were being applied broadly and in some cases punished speech protected by international human rights standards (C3)." |
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| ▲ | jimnotgym a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > proactive extraterritorial overreach They are certainly very active in the subject, although judging by the last week, they are not really against it in every case >The UK has thrown thousands of people in jail for speech on social media That is just not true, is it. No matter how many times you say it |
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| ▲ | 0xy a day ago | parent [-] | | https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-kingdom/freedom-net/... "Internet freedom declined in the United Kingdom during the coverage period due to a reported increase in criminal charges for online speech" "A separate report from The Telegraph found that 292 people had been charged for spreading false information and “threatening communications” under the Online Safety Act between when it came into effect in 2023 and February 2025. Some civil liberties groups expressed concern that the laws were being applied broadly and in some cases punished speech protected by international human rights standards (C3)." | | |
| ▲ | jimnotgym 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | 292 is not thousands though, is it? Making the statement a barefaced lie. That is before we go into the actual cases of what those people did. I'm concerned about it too, and am able to freely engage with my political representatives over it. They listen and discuss it, because we are a functioning democracy. But hyping it up and lieing about it doesn't help the discussion. Please don't do what everyone else does next and post about one specific case that on a cursory examination seems troubling, I won't be drawn into it. |
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| ▲ | hermanzegerman a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There are no "European Global Censorship Programs". Maybe try to get your information elsewhere than Fox News (based on the Nonsense in all your recent comments) |
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| ▲ | UqWBcuFx6NV4r a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is flat-out factually inaccurate. Don’t bring this tripe here, please and thank you. |
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| ▲ | youngtaff a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > The UK has thrown thousands of people in jail for speech on social media Not true… and those that were jailed were convicted for inciting racial hatred and most of them admitted the offence |
