Posted on 09/03/2025 7:41:04 AM PDT by DallasBiff
’ve sat and followed what is happening with the media in the UK with interest. One of the reasons I started Politically Inclined was due to the erosion of journalistic integrity in the main stream media.
It started off with small things – politicians not being fact checked (well, let’s face it, only certain politicians), certain words being dropped (fascism, genocide, right-wing, racist) while use of other words increased (trans predators, woke, Asian grooming gangs).
At the same time that legacy media started to bend the knee to what they perceived the be the rise of the right wing (and they have to go where the audience is, because that’s where the money is), social media’s standards were being eroded too with racist, transphobic, homophobic and hateful comments allowed to run rampant on certain platforms under the banner of “free speech” protections.
But the thing is, as we’ve seen time-and-time again over the past year: the right wing are a very small, but very vocal minority.
Labour – a centre-left political Party won in a landslide in the UK 2024 general election and no matter how loudly Nigel Farage might shout, and no matter how often the BBC unfairly platforms Reform[1][2] over the Liberal Democrats or The Green Party, Reform Party UK Limited only has 4 MPs (it should be 6 but 2 have been suspended).
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If you can’t say what you believe is true without going to jail, then free speech is dead. It doesn’t matter if it’s perceived as left or right wing.
The UK rule about speech that tends to incite hatred is what allows them to throw free speech out the window, because “tends to” is vague and covers speech which is objectively true. If I say Jeffrey Dahmer was a cannibal it incites hatred, oops now I’m a criminal.
“Common sense” also died in Mao’s China and Hitler’s 3rd Reich, and with it, dies free speech.
It’s a distinction without a difference.
So many false assertions. Plus, how can you be so concerned about the ‘far-right’ if they’re a ‘tiny minority’.
These people are the “free speech....with ‘common’ sense”. IOW - you’re free to speak so long as you don’t say something we don’t like.
according to katie
it is commonsense to censor people
the tyranny is strong with katie
My brother once asked a Soviet Russian if it was true that there was no freedom of speech in Russia. The Russian responded: “That is absolutely false, there is freedom of speech in Russia. Often, there is no freedom after speech”.
Katy Walton is a twit. What a sack of biased bafflegab.
Right now, the UK is barely above a fascist state. They arrest little girls for protecting themselves and enforce arbitrary rules about online content.
Being arrested for what you say that “might” make someone unhappy is the very definition of NOT having free speech. Arresting people for posting on X or online is again the very essence of NOT having free speech and one of the tenants of fascism.
Speech that incites hatred or makes anyone feel uncomfortable. That involves a broad range of interpretation which can coincidentally include any speech that the government doesn’t like.
Were the Brits not disarmed decades ago there would be a bloody uprising against this repressive government. Our Founders created the Second Amendment for a reason
this is how they see the world....vocal, “racist” minorities really don’t have a right to free speech....
which shows that they don’t understand free speech.
the point is not to deny harmful minority voices....rather, the point is to flood and overwhelm bad speech, with good speech, ie more truthful speech.
but they dont’ see it that way. they think if something is harmful, then it’s not protected under the banner of free speech......
England ( and the EU) are a greater threat than Russia is.
It seems the Brits are finally paying the price of their willing disarmament, by quickly becoming voiceless sex slaves, available to be preyed upon at will.
The result is that they are already beginning to suffer every imaginable and unimaginable depravity under their largely unopposed, clearly Demonic masters.
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