It’s been one week since the British government’s odious ‘Online Safety Act’ came into force and basically everything on the Internet is now blocked.
The legislation was presented as an effort to protect children from seeing things they shouldn’t be seeing online.
However, to absolutely no one’s surprise, it’s already being used to eviscerate free speech.
The first thing that was blocked were videos of protests outside hotels where the government is housing illegal immigrants on the taxpayer’s dime.
British users of X shared screenshots of messages that popped up while they attempted to view footage from the protests, which started in Epping after a migrant sexually assaulted a teenage girl and have since spread around the country.
Funny that because we also learned this week that an “elite” police squad of officers has been tasked with monitoring spicy tweets about migration.
But they won’t stop burglars and thieves. Backwards. pic.twitter.com/Bas7F4MXb7
— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) July 27, 2025
The Telegraph report states:
An elite team of police officers is to monitor social media for anti-migrant sentiment amid fears of summer riots.
Detectives will be drawn from forces across the country to take part in a new investigations unit that will flag up early signs of potential civil unrest.
The division, assembled by the Home Office, will aim to “maximise social media intelligence” gathering after police forces were criticised over their response to last year’s riots.
Probably purely a coincidence, right?
Also probably purely a coincidence that a shady government outfit now known as the National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT) has been lobbying social media companies to take action against users who post what it describes as “concerning narratives” about immigration and ‘two tier policing’.
Previously known as the ‘Counter Disinformation Unit’, it was formerly tasked with identifying and monitoring COVID lockdown dissenters during the pandemic.
Today we learn that this spying operation actively used web trawling tools originally created to hunt for jihadist terrorists to find critics of ‘asylum’ hotels instead.
A Whitehall “disinformation” unit used tools created to hunt for jihadists to find critics of asylum hotels, The Telegraph can reveal
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) August 3, 2025
Read the full piece by Tony Diver here??https://t.co/25vJWuJdWA pic.twitter.com/QrCcVGZqwY
While censoring dissenting voices is evidently a primary focus for elements within the British Deep State, a whole host of other stuff has been blocked.
Whether this is intentional and nefarious or just a result of the massively broad terms of what the government could possibly consider ‘harmful’ or ‘hateful’ content, or whether the social media companies just don’t know, or just don’t want to take any chances, remains to be determined.
X user Chris Middleton shared an enraging thread of some of the stuff Brits can’t see anymore.
The Act gives Ofcom powers to slap platforms with fines of up to 10% of global turnover for “harmful” content.
— Chris Middleton (@ChrisMid) August 1, 2025
“Harmful” is so vague that companies are over-censoring in order to avoid trouble.
It’s not protecting kids. It’s incentivising mass censorship.
MP @Katie_Lam_MP says content on rape gangs is being suppressed.
— Chris Middleton (@ChrisMid) August 1, 2025
Her take: “The state won’t stop mass gang rape but will stop adults hearing about it.”
This isn’t a safety feature. This is how states hide their own failures.https://t.co/HURgJaRWwL
Yes, can’t talk about that. We all know why.
Every day with this. But you're a fascist if you protest it. https://t.co/q9ci4kqT6W
— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) August 3, 2025
Can you even see that post? Probably not if you’re in the UK.
And as already mentioned…
The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) backs this up: A video of police arresting a protester on X was quickly blocked for UK users.
— Chris Middleton (@ChrisMid) August 1, 2025
This used to be something we mocked in authoritarian states. Now it’s happening in Britain.https://t.co/TfbzJ7yFwl
A witty X account exposing how awful Britain has become, also blocked.
It gets more absurd. @kunley_drukpa says @MythoYookay, an account that ironically enough, satirises the UK’s decline, is also being censored.
— Chris Middleton (@ChrisMid) August 1, 2025
When even satire is being restricted in the UK, things have clearly gone too far.https://t.co/nv1PZ2CiMT
A whole host of other innocuous things…
Even baby name stats aren’t safe. @ZiaYusufUK says an article noting no UK babies were named “Keir” last year also got blocked.
— Chris Middleton (@ChrisMid) August 1, 2025
Over-censorship that is so ridiculous it would be funny if it wasn’t so serious.https://t.co/LinJx2P0Nf
Spotify…You cant listen to music now without the government’s permission.
And it’s not just social media.
— Chris Middleton (@ChrisMid) August 1, 2025
Spotify now demands ID for “adult” content or risks suspending accounts, as reported by @visegrad24.
Music platforms are now digital ID checkpoints.https://t.co/fn2679nuHW
Absolutely insane, and we’re only one week into this.
The Online Safety Act is clearly not just about protecting children.
— Chris Middleton (@ChrisMid) August 1, 2025
It is a poorly worded law, written by people who don't understand the internet.
Oh, and if you disagree with it, Labour says you’re “on the side of predators”.https://t.co/BnkmipDWDv
A petition to repeal the censorship has almost half a million signatures at time of writing.
Over 467,300 signatures for repeal. https://t.co/EJ9BRbZ4f4
— Kathleen Tyson (@Kathleen_Tyson_) August 1, 2025
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The US is no different. All our media, both left and right is bought and paid for. The right totally ignores the murders in Gaza because Trump is doing it. Hopefully, one day it will be them.
Don’t you have MULTIPLE laws against “bullying” the LGBTQueers? How about your laws that prevent government bullying of NORMAL, patient, hard-pressed, English citizens?
The UK government is worse than the worst playground bully … worse than the worst Hooligan.
Conversely, organisations monitoring anti-White racism, need to start flagging official bulletins and media statements emanating from government sources with a view to calling for the arrest and trial of such government officials who directly or indirectly incite racial discrimination AND/OR racial hostility including blame, towards the White indigenous populations of the UK.
If government department officials fail to inform the indigenous population of crimes perpetrated against them by both illegal or legal immigrants such a stance would constitute deliberate negligence in protecting the safety and wellbeing of one section of the population(s), ie, the indigenous White populations since said populations would thus be prevented from carrying out necessary precautions to safeguard themselves and children particularly where murder is the result.
This means government officials including the PM may be held culpable.
This draconian censorship and gatekeeping of information can be effortlessly side-stepped.
Use a good VPN and access the site with something other than your naked U.K. I.P. address. By good, I of course mean a VPN not associated with Kape Technologies. Use a VPN that doesn’t keep logs longer than half a day. That way when the state tries to get your real I.P. address, they can’t.
Some content on some platforms may require a login to view, ostensibly to protect tender minor eyes, but really so they can know who is watching what. Consider alternative platforms that don’t require providing real identification. Consider burner e-mail addresses wherever necessary im registering for social media platforms to protect your anonymity.
GOD SAVE THE IMPOTENT KING AND HIS FASCIST REGIME.
Well, brits are doing nothing about it. They are promoting their own tyranny like every western country.
From the land of the great George Orwell comes the rhyming censorship of 1984.