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If Britain Bans X, How Far Will It Go To Block Free Speech?
RealClear Politics ^ | 15 Jan, 2026 | Ted Newson

Posted on 01/15/2026 6:29:58 AM PST by MtnClimber

If Britain Bans X, How Far Will It Go To Block Free Speech? COMMENTARY By Ted NewsonJanuary 15, 2026 If Britain Bans X, How Far Will It Go To Block Free Speech?AP In what appears to be a rolling back on free speech and citizen journalism, Britain is fast-tracking a law that will ban non-consensual intimate deepfake images. This is likely aimed at the social media site X.com after its AI assistant Grok allegedly generated inappropriate images. In the scope of the global news cycle and a further ban potentially on the table, the move couldn’t be more poorly timed. It coincides with social media bans in socialist Tanzania and a sweeping Internet blackout by the Ayatollah of Iran. While Britain is not Iran, the direction of travel – using information control to manage dissent – bears uncomfortable similarities. Brits are justifiably worried: Is this the nail in the coffin of Britain’s free speech?

Keir Starmer, UK prime minister, has already come under an avalanche of scrutiny for his hand in other undemocratic activities. For example, many of the local elections in Britain will not go ahead this year, having also been canceled last year under the pretext of local government reorganization. Additionally, arrests over speech and social media posts have increased in recent years, with the arrests of over 10,000 people per year under various Orwellian laws.

To make matters worse, Starmer’s online censorship has gone even further under the new Online Safety Act. This new law is intended to protect young people from “harmful” speech but gives regulators sweeping powers to silence lawful but unpopular speech in the name of safety. An example of the British government’s new stance on what is acceptable to discuss is a new taxpayer-funded online game. This game vilifies concerns over mass migration

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: censorship; dissent; europe; freespeech; leftism; twitter; unitedkingdom; x
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To: Sirius Lee

Not to mention all the private firearms that were donated and trashed after the end of WW II.


21 posted on 01/15/2026 7:49:19 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: rktman

Cuckoldry is the reason British can’t have nice things.


22 posted on 01/15/2026 7:51:41 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Bobalu

“If they ban X Trump will...”

I suggest cutting off flights such is done for Cuba and Venezuela.


23 posted on 01/15/2026 8:07:09 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: budj

Free speech in the U.K.?
Can’t have that.
The little people would be so annoying with their whining and crying about the need to evict the Muslims raping their underage daughters.
Got to shut them up...jail the citizens who don’t like Islam “converting” their young daughters.


24 posted on 01/15/2026 8:10:13 AM PST by OldArmy52 (Resisting criminals is a punishable offense )
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To: MtnClimber

Really? Have you forgotten that they had a King who supported Hitler?
All societies have fringes. Brit is now in the commie trash portion of the plot.

So long as Charles is on the throne nothing will change.


25 posted on 01/15/2026 8:17:00 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: Sirius Lee

Sure glad my kin bailed out of there to Holland then New Amsterdam 400 years ago. (+/-)


26 posted on 01/15/2026 8:46:11 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: MtnClimber
About 10 years ago I was in Hong Kong and had brought my laptop. I signed on to the hotel's wifi and,out of curiosity,I started Chrome and tried to sign on to "google.com". I tried several times and always got "google.cn" with "cn" being the country code for Red China.

While on "google.cn" I tried to google "Tienanmen Square".

Of course on google.com you get hundreds of pictures of bloody,dying,kids. But on "cn" all you get are beautiful pictures pf Chairman Mao looking down lovingly at his people.

That's what can happen in Britain: YouTube and Twitter will become ".eu" and only show stuff slamming Western culture and praising pig fornicating moslems.

27 posted on 01/15/2026 1:53:24 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: MtnClimber

Britain already jails people for exercising speech, so, I guess that far?


28 posted on 01/15/2026 1:54:22 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: SaveFerris
Remember this one?


29 posted on 01/15/2026 1:55:10 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad; null and void; Jane Long; Nervous Tick; rx; rxsid; Red Badger

Yes it’s an excellent one

And MUCH too close to the ‘1984’ monster
that is becoming reality at a rapid rate 🤯🤯🤯


30 posted on 01/15/2026 2:01:49 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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