Responding to the recent authoritarian crackdown, Joe Rogan pointed out that more people get arrested in the UK for “thought crimes” on social media than they do in Russia.
“Terrible government overreach – you’re seeing it now in England where people are getting arrested for tweets,” said the podcast host.
“People talk about Soviet Russia, like how bad Russia is in terms of cracking down on thought police and cracking down on bad tweets and things like that,” he added.
Rogan then compared how Russia polices free speech on social media compared to the UK.
In Russia, only around 400 people are arrested each year for ‘hateful’ tweets, while that number is around 3,300 in the UK.
“The fact that they’re comfortable with finding people who’ve said something they disagree with and putting them in a fucking cage in England in 2024 is really wild,” said Rogan.
He then drew attention to a recent statement by Stephen Parkinson, the Director of Public Prosecutions, who told Sky News that merely retweeting information about the UK riots could lead to criminal charges.
Rogan pointed out that the term “hateful” is completely subjective “and in our lifetime we’ve seen that get moved,” before explaining how ‘deadnaming’ a transgender person by referring to them by their original name is now treated as “hateful”.
As we highlighted yesterday, a woman in Cheshire was arrested for tweeting “inaccurate information” about the killer of three girls in Southport.
Meanwhile, one of the latest arrests in the UK in the aftermath of the riots is of a man who wrote “filthy bastards” on Facebook alongside an emoji of an ethnic minority person and a gun.
He will now spend the next 12 weeks in prison.
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The real criminals here are the Labour Party. After all they’re the ones that started bringing in the head chopper/rapey types in the first place. They bring their mental shit with them.
Then when everything goes to hell in a hand basket, they blame the indigenous people of the UK. The Labour Party should be declared a criminal organization.
As for the automatons known as the police. God help the Idiots.
“In Russia, only around 400 people are arrested each year for ‘hateful’ tweets, while that number is around 3,300 in the UK.”
In Russia, a lot of social media is banned. Also, in Russia people famously know how to keep their mouth shut, which stops them from getting arrested for saying stupid things.
On the other hand, in the UK (and even worse in the USA) most people lack the slightest notion of how reality actually works, which of course means that too many people say stupid things they should definitely not say, and may get all surprised when they get informed that yeah, there is such a thing as destroying the fabric of society by refusing to engage with the truth.
For example, in the middle of a deadly pandemic you should not promote careless behaviour that helps people catch the virus. In the middle of riots you should not add to the confusion. In the middle of the biggest energy crisis ever you should not pretend that energy issues are a conspiracy against the people. All these things apparently are understood by Russians, but not always in the UK or the USA. Admittedly, the bar is very low, so the fact that the Russians can clear it does not speak very highly of Russia. But there are people in the English speaking world that will proudly state that they want to take even bigger risks than the Russians (famous for their crazy risk-taking), and demolish the whole society down, with no alternative ideas, for the hell of it.
Maybe you should grow a skin. Don’t dictate what people can and cannot say.
The only speech that should carry a penalty is the promotion of violence, and slander.
Freedom of speech is a precious right given to us by God. Take it away you have tyranny. It starts with “I believe in freedom of speech, but…” Now go crawl back into your filthy hole.
I’m not sure what the folks in the UK can do, except keep voting them out.
When the Russians kicked the Nazis out in the 80s and ended
Nazi Soviet Russia, the Nazis went to Europe and started the Nazi European Union!
And Whitey worshipped them as “gods” and licked their bottoms squeaky clean!
You get what you bargain for!
whatcha goin do when they come for you joey? lol