The Online Safety Act was sold to the British public as a way to protect children from adult content, but fighting porn proved to be a trojan horse over fighting what the regime cared about.
Any Britons trying to read the Act probably never made it to Chapter 7 at which point the wooden horse legislation listed a ‘Committee on Disinformation and Misinformation’ and began handing out matching orders on how internet services are supposed to deal with the bogeys of unfettered speech. What does disinformation have to do with keeping kids from accessing porn?
Recent court hearings revealed that officials had stated that the real purpose was “not primarily aimed at … the protection of children”, but regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse”. There’s only one kind of censorship the British government is really into.
Rather than blocking pornography, the Online Safety Act was used to block videos of parliamentary debates about the Muslim sex grooming gang crisis in the UK. Not only wasn’t the Online Safety Act protecting children from being exposed to sexual content, it was being used to censor revelations about the complicity of the authorities in the sexual abuse of children.
The OSA is one of a series of pieces of legislation that seem designed to replicate Orwell’s nightmarish 1984 dystopia under the guise of reforming and protecting people from things.
Orwell’s inspiration for 1984 came from his time working for the BBC under the Ministry of Information which he sarcastically rebranded in the book as the Ministry of Truth. Today’s Ministry of Truth is OFCOM, the UK’s monstrous speech regulator, which, in a fitting tribute to 1984, is forcing Big Brother onto ‘Smart’ TVs. In an echo of 1984’s TVs playing government propaganda that can’t be turned off, the Media Act forces BBC and other government content to have a “privileged” role on internet connected TV’s. Whether or not anyone wants them to.
While “1984 was not an instruction manual” is a longstanding meme, it is very much an instructional manual for government officials who brag that the purpose of the Media Act is to “make sure public service broadcast content is always carried.”
The Orwellianism is only getting underway and it has disturbing implications for America.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate is a British leftist group run by Imran Ahmed, a former adviser to future London Mayor Sadiq Khan, now operating out of Washington D.C, has been lobbying Congress for censorship, had also proposed giving OFCOM “emergency powers” to immediately force social media platforms to censor political content from the opposition.
The proposal came in the wake of the Starmer regime’s mass censorship and arrests of anyone who correctly identified the Southport mass murderer of little girls as a Muslim terrorist.
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