Posted on 10/05/2023 5:31:33 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
In a story that has virtually been ignored by the global media, UK police arrested an independent journalist for posting "malinformation" and misinformation about Ukraine.
Under the new UK censorship law called the Online Safety Act, the government can order the arrest or detention of anyone said to be "hateful" or judged by fact checkers to be posting "misinformation."
Warren Thornton was literally in the midst of streaming an edition of his podcast The Real Truth on Sept. 24 when Bristol police officers came to his front door and demanded he speak with them.
The Liberal government of Canada is preparing its own version of this legislation that will target "disinformation" on the internet without even defining what disinformation is.
Thornton is a critic of NATO's escalation of the war in Ukraine and has posted several videos about Ukrainian attacks on Russian civilians and the secret existence of biolabs in Ukraine. He was also quick to report how a former Waffen-SS Nazi soldier was allowed to sit in the Canadian House of Commons Gallery during a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Yaroslav Hunka acknowledged plaudits from former House Speaker Anthony Rota and waved as all Members of Parliament rose from their seats and gave the 98-year-old SS veteran a standing ovation.
Thornton had just broadcast news of Canada's international embarrassment when the police arrived…
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BTTT
You think it isn’t coming here? Or it isn’t already here?
Funny how the Orwellian ‘malinformation’ can never disagree with Marxist Globalist goals.
Sorry...this is Britain. They used to say that “There will always be an England”. I guess their crystal ball was a bit cloudy.
“There’s no England now”
Well, we in western Canada disagree with that heh.
Proper response is deadly force when - not if - it comes here, authorized by my oath.
Bring it.
Yep disinformation by any other means can be what a state does not want published. “I see you facts differently and raise you a jail sentence.”
It’s so....Soviet!
They had to arrange him to protect democracy
The EU’s Digital Services Act just came into force.
Coinkydink...?
So much for Brexit.
The UK is gone. Did they actually think that the “Online ‘safety’ act” was about online safety?
Brits need to read 1984 again.
Sid Vicious turned out to be prophetic.
For 90 minutes they pulled my car apart,demanded the password to my laptop and asked me a million questions about guns.
They found nothing so they let me in...and I've entered Canada many times since with no problems.
I have a pretty common name so all I can think of is that a guy with my same name was on some kind of firearms watch list.Either that or they were just bored that day (there was only me and a pickup truck with Alaska plates there at the time).
God save the queen
The fascist regime
They made you a moron….
Sex Pistols
Johnny Rotten is a conservative now.
Reminds me of a great film called “The Lives of Others”. It’s a German film about the Stasi. Check it out some day.
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