Posted on 06/15/2018 10:34:50 AM PDT by marktwain
On Sunday, YouTuber Callum Long-Collins announced he would be effectively shutting down the channel EnglishShooting, a YouTube channel that racked up more than 15,000 subscribers and more than 12 million views in the past four years. Long-Collins said the police had marked his YouTube channel as a "forum of extremism," and that he had to "show the police that I am a fit character to own firearms within the U.K."
"I was told that due to repeated comments from other people on the videos [police] felt that the channel was a forum of extremism and it was promoting views that were not in line with legal firearms ownership within the U.K.," Long-Collins said in a YouTube video announcing "The End of EnglishShooting."
The trouble began two years ago, when his licenses were revoked following a false accusation. His licenses were restored, but police found previous videos on his channel that they considered suspect.
"Over the past two years, Ive made significant efforts to change the direction of the channel, change the videos, and to change my own beliefs and views around firearms and firearm ownership," the YouTuber said (emphasis added). "Unfortunately, Ive failed to bring the channel and the videos to the standard that the police feel is adequate and I only have myself to blame for this."
Throughout the video, Long-Collins sounded as though he had been forced through an Orwellian re-education. He admitted that the errors were his alone, even though it seemed police had the biggest problem with commenters on his YouTube channel, rather than his own comments and videos. He even admitted that he has attempted to change his own beliefs in order to combat the government revoking his firearms licenses.
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Never been a first amendment in UK.
The UK is lost.
Socialism in practice.
1. Get you to apologise for possible wrongs.
2. Get you to admit wrong doing.
3. Get you to denounce others.
4. Get others to denounce you.
5. Put you and others in re-education.
6. If you can’t be re-educated, declare you
socially unreliable and isolate you
from the rest of the population.
7. Criminals are socially reliable so you will
not be isolated from them.
8. Your children, if young enough can be made
socially reliable.
So the Brits think they have veto power over our freedom of speech? If Google wasn't such a statist supporting organization, they would tell them to go F*** themselves.
Orwell was a British author whose “1984” describes a future of totalitarian rule in what had been England.
The irony seems to be totally lost on the current regime in UK.
No First Amendment, no Second Amendment, not even a Constitution to rein in power in Old Blighty. Their parliamentary form of rule where one party controls all branches of government has been described as “dictatorship interrupted by elections”.
Pray for Tommy Robinson.
...The video of the YouTube presenter just shrieks of Orwellianism...
Yes. 2+2truly=5
The UK police didn't shut down English Shooting, They yanked his firearms license because of some of the comments to his videos.
English Shooting shut down his channel voluntarily in order to get his firearms license back.
Here's English Shooting in his own words:
Go Britain. The people’s freedom to buy and own a gun never was important to your government. See how you feel when Islam takes you over.
The UK police didn’t shut down English Shooting, They yanked his firearms license because of some of the comments to his videos.
English Shooting shut down his channel voluntarily in order to get his firearms license back.
A difference without much of a distinction.
Without a firearms license, he could not do much of a firearms video.
This is how the nanny state operates. All of this “may issue” nonsense gives an enormous lever of control.
When something is a matter of subjective judgement to the powers that be, they use it to control all your behavior.
I have seen many examples of people curtailing what they legally can do, because of fear of what the powers that be can do to them with subjective judgements.
Did they shut down muzzy channels? no.
The bright light of freedom continues to dim in Britain, day by day by day.
To my mind, the only distinction is that the UK police acted on what they control - his firearms license. The headline makes it sound as if the UK police went to YouTube and ordered them to take down the channel.
But you are right, of course, that the end result is the same.
Dear UK,
Do you remember all those guns the American citizens sent you during WWII, as you were being threatened by Nazi Germany, while you tried to arm your soldiers using your own factories?
Well, we’d like them back.
Thanks,
The American Gun-Owners.
UK Fascist police state BUMP
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