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US warns of ‘serious restrictions’ on free speech in Britain
The Telegraph ^ | 13 August 2025 | Cameron Henderson and Dominic Penna

Posted on 08/13/2025 7:40:14 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

The US has warned that censorship of free speech is getting worse in the UK.

On Tuesday, the US state department released its annual Human Rights Report, claiming there are “credible reports of serious restrictions on freedom of expression” in Britain.

The “human rights situation worsened” in Britain in 2024, the report said, frequently referring to the period after Sir Keir Starmer won the election last July. It also criticised the Online Safety Act.

Following the Southport attack last year, the UK Government “repeatedly intervened to chill speech”, the report said.

Although not mentioned by name in the report, the White House has previously expressed an interest in Lucy Connolly, a former childminder and wife of a Conservative councillor, who is serving a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence over a social media post published in the wake of the Southport attack.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: lucyconnolly; monarchy; policestate; ukpics; ukspeechpics; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 08/13/2025 7:40:14 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican; Morgana

No restrictions on denigrating the USA or Trump.
Or white people.
Or Christians.


2 posted on 08/13/2025 7:41:30 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (There are no more conspiracy theories, only questions that further the truth.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If, after reading your social media posts, Britain still allows you into their country, then you are too woke.


3 posted on 08/13/2025 7:43:01 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Issue a Travel Warning for London:

“American travelers to London must pay careful attention to what they say. Offending the sensibilities of officials in the U.K. will result in imprisonment.”


4 posted on 08/13/2025 7:43:08 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Liz: Now with 68% Anti-Semitic posts! If the Nazi armband fits, wear it Lizzie.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s the death throes of the rump British empire

The obvious one was in the 1950s

This is the secretive, soft-power, globalist, statist-Marxist one remaining in London


5 posted on 08/13/2025 7:50:22 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: MinorityRepublican

The EU is more a threat to the U.S. than Russia is.


6 posted on 08/13/2025 7:50:52 AM PDT by delta7
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To: MinorityRepublican

Can we expect a comment from Britain and their proxy Canada in regards to this?


7 posted on 08/13/2025 7:53:58 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: MinorityRepublican
On lack of Free Speech in the UK:

22-Year-Old UK Journalist Facing Prison for Criticizing Mass Migration

"British journalist and activist James Harvey was arrested by the police for saying 'stop the boats,' sending a chilling message to young people resisting the legal alien invasion.

The charges carry a potential two-year sentence if escalated to Crown Court."

https://borderhawk.news/exclusive-22-year-old-uk-journalist-facing-prison-for-criticizing-mass-migration/

8 posted on 08/13/2025 7:55:37 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolutioan?)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“Offending the sensibilities of officials in the U.K. will result in imprisonment.”

More accurate?

Offending the sensibilities of immigrants or criminals in the U.K. will result in imprisonment.”


9 posted on 08/13/2025 7:57:10 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: MinorityRepublican

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10 posted on 08/13/2025 7:58:17 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: P-Marlowe

Perfidious Albion alert!!!


11 posted on 08/13/2025 8:02:54 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Bon of Babble

Stop the boats.


12 posted on 08/13/2025 8:06:46 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Liz: Now with 68% Anti-Semitic posts! If the Nazi armband fits, wear it Lizzie.)
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To: delta7

Now THAT is the truth


13 posted on 08/13/2025 8:39:45 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wankers.


14 posted on 08/13/2025 11:49:54 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: MinorityRepublican; Cletus.D.Yokel; P-Marlowe; Uncle Miltie; PGR88; delta7; delchiante; ...
Swipe, save, and share:















For more memes about UK suppression of speech, Click here.

15 posted on 08/13/2025 4:09:45 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If [mortals] are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? —Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Albion Wilde

Perfidious Albion alert!


16 posted on 08/13/2025 7:14:05 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Albion Wilde
I’d like to amend my post:

F***ing wankers.

17 posted on 08/13/2025 7:31:43 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Albion Wilde
It must be so frustrating to live there - knowing you could be arrested and jailed for the most innocuous online posts - yet be forced to stand by while muslim criminals are coddled and let go.

BTW: Only about 1/2 of the (great) graphics you posted came through on my end, the rest wouldn't load for whatever reason.

Here's more insanity this morning from "Jolly Olde England":

Passengers who tackled deranged, naked man on subway are hunted by cops for ‘assault’…

"Witnesses say a man wearing headphones and a white t-shirt suddenly dropped his britches in the middle of a packed carriage, exposing himself as families with children looked on in horror.

There were zero signs of help from authorities, so several male passengers intervened and wrestled the pervert to the ground and then forced him off the train.

But instead of celebrating these men for protecting others, British Transport Police launched an investigation into them.

18 posted on 08/14/2025 6:34:27 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolutioan?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Look for females and the cuks who enable them as the responsible parties. And they’re right here on FR too, pushing for thought and speech crime enforcement in the US.


19 posted on 08/14/2025 6:39:29 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: Bon of Babble
BTW: Only about 1/2 of the (great) graphics you posted came through on my end, the rest wouldn't load for whatever reason.

I hear that occasionally from a very few freepers. Apparently it is some incompatibility along the way of platforms, ISPs or software. I do not know how to diagnose it. The other thing is that occasionally one of the host sites I use is down for maintenance for a couple of hours, and then the images come back.

20 posted on 08/14/2025 7:33:59 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (If [mortals] are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? —Benjamin Franklin)
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