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🚨 THE UK CENSORSHIP FILES, PART 2

UK GOVERNMENT TRIED TO CENSOR CRITICISM OF ITSELF AND DEBATE ABOUT IMMIGRATION DURING LARGE-SCALE RIOTS IN AUGUST 2024.

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As UK citizens become increasingly frustrated by a system weaponized against them, UK authorities wanted Big Tech to censor discussions about immigration and “narratives about the police and a ‘two-tier’ system.”

In recent years, UK citizens have become increasingly fed up with the “double standard” in the UK:

Mean tweets get you a longer prison sentence than many violent offenses.

Britons were rightly concerned about a justice system that treated government critics more harshly than violent criminals.

Right-of-center leaders in the UK were justified in criticizing this “two-tier” system of justice. youtube.com/shorts/ENaNyeC…

So, what did Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer and Technology Secretary @peterkyle do?

New documents produced to the Committee show that they tried to censor people who called out the UK’s two-tier justice system for what it was.

In an email to Big Tech, one of the UK’s tech regulators—known as DSIT—told platforms to monitor “narratives about . . . a ‘two-tier system.’”

Then, DSIT directed platforms to “come back to us” on “any measures you have taken in response.”

The implication was clear: the UK was telling platforms to censor true “narratives” about a “two-tier” justice system.

That’s right: the British government was trying to censor criticism of itself during the largest British riots in over a decade in August 2024.

The oldest trick in the censorship playbook.

But the UK government didn’t stop there.

It also tried to censor public debate about immigration and asylum policy during this period of heightened public debate.

One British citizen wanted to know where the government was housing asylum seekers at UK taxpayers’ expense. So, he filed a Freedom of Information request.

The British government denied his request.

Then, when he posted online about the denial, the British government told platforms to censor him.

The UK government also wanted to silence discussions about Europe’s mass migration policies.

One popular account noted that certain parts of England now look like another country.

UK authorities sent the post to platforms as an example of “concerning content” that they should censor.

UK authorities didn’t want this censorship to be limited to their country, either.

Just a couple days after the UK’s demand to Big Tech, London’s top police officer warned Americans that he would target them with prosecution for online posts he found offensive—no matter what country they were posted from. cbsaustin.com/news/nation-wo…

The message:

Criticize @Keir_Starmer or UK immigration policy from anywhere in the world, and you should watch out.

You might get locked up while violent criminals walk free.

And you’ll get censored if you point out the double standard.

The Committee continues to receive documents showing censorship of conservatives and true information from around the world.

But above all else, governments always want to censor criticism of the government.

More to come…