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The Online Safety Act was sold to the British public as a way to protect children from adult content, but fighting porn proved to be a trojan horse over fighting what the regime cared about.
Any Britons trying to read the Act probably never made it to Chapter 7 at which point the wooden horse legislation listed a ‘Committee on Disinformation and Misinformation’ and began handing out matching orders on how internet services are supposed to deal with the bogeys of unfettered speech. What does disinformation have to do with keeping kids from accessing porn?
Recent court hearings revealed that officials had stated that the real purpose was “not primarily aimed at … the protection of children”, but regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse”. There’s only one kind of censorship the British government is really into.
Rather than blocking pornography, the Online Safety Act was used to block videos of parliamentary debates about the Muslim sex grooming gang crisis in the UK. Not only wasn’t the Online Safety Act protecting children from being exposed to sexual content, it was being used to censor revelations about the complicity of the authorities in the sexual abuse of children.
The OSA is one of a series of pieces of legislation that seem designed to replicate Orwell’s nightmarish 1984 dystopia under the guise of reforming and protecting people from things.
Orwell’s inspiration for 1984 came from his time working for the BBC under the Ministry of Information which he sarcastically rebranded in the book as the Ministry of Truth. Today’s Ministry of Truth is OFCOM, the UK’s monstrous speech regulator, which, in a fitting tribute to 1984, is forcing Big Brother onto ‘Smart’ TVs. In an echo of 1984’s TVs playing government propaganda that can’t be turned off, the Media Act forces BBC and other government content to have a “privileged” role on internet connected TV’s. Whether or not anyone wants them to.
While “1984 was not an instruction manual” is a longstanding meme, it is very much an instructional manual for government officials who brag that the purpose of the Media Act is to “make sure public service broadcast content is always carried.”
Furthermore, since viewers insist on not watching government propaganda and instead watching cat videos, the next OFCOM proposal is to also force YouTube and popular video streaming sites to promote government propaganda into your algorithm whether you want it or not. If viewers still choose not to click, 1984 includes a helpful guide for having a gent with a mustache stare at them through their screen to make sure that they are watching the BBC.
And this is much easier in 2024, the year of the Media Act, than it was in either 1948 or 1984.
The Orwellianism is only getting underway and it has disturbing implications for America.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate is a British leftist group run by Imran Ahmed, a former adviser to future London Mayor Sadiq Khan, now operating out of Washington D.C, has been lobbying Congress for censorship, had also proposed giving OFCOM “emergency powers” to immediately force social media platforms to censor political content from the opposition.
The proposal came in the wake of the Starmer regime’s mass censorship and arrests of anyone who correctly identified the Southport mass murderer of little girls as a Muslim terrorist.
The massive censorship powers being vested in the OFCOM ‘Ministry of Truth’ are all the more remarkable considering that even Tony Blair had warned about the dangers of OFCOM being used to censor the media, but these days OFCOM tells media outlets that they must broadcast false claims that men are really women and targeted any dissent on COVID.
The various pieces of legislation granting OFCOM even more power are billed as “reforms”, but reforms are supposed to be aimed at government, instead the government is wielding more power over speech and calling it reform. The government monopoly over speech is being conducted under false flags, such as the Online Safety Act, through outright lies, like the false claims by the government that the Southport stabber of little girls wasn’t Muslim, and consists of both ‘negative’ censorship which suppresses free speech, and ‘positive’ censorship which rams government propaganda down the throats of the masses while suppressing competing views.
Underlying both the negative and positive censorship campaign is the silent recognition that government authoritarianism and policies like enabling Muslim mass migration have become so unpopular that the only way to perpetuate them is through mass censorship, propaganda and criminalization of speech. All the alarmism about “disinformation” and “right-wing violence” is the rhetoric of a political machine that has lost the argument and has nothing to resort to but force.
The Starmer regime can’t even begin to win the argument in the marketplace of ideas and so a phalanx of police forces is obsessively monitoring social media to suppress opposing views. No one wants to watch the BBC and the rest of the government propaganda machine, and so the regime has resorted to mandating that Smart TVs and later social media promote them.
It is no coincidence that OFCOM and Muslim mass migration have a common origin in the Blair government. Or that both have grown in conjoined proportion and that legislation like the Online Safety Act are being rapidly deployed to silence the revelation of Muslim sex grooming gangs and other consequences of the mass migration that is destroying the United Kingdom.
79 years ago, Winston Churchill warned that “from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.” The new iron curtain is descending in an entirely different direction, no longer dividing Western and Eastern Europe, the free and the unfree world, in that familiar direction, but in the new and unfamiliar direction in which London, Paris and Brussels are the ones cut off and falling into the blackest and bleakest darkness.
If Churchill were alive today, he would be the first to warn of an iron curtain descending along Brighton, London, and Newcastle, in whose shadow freedom is lost, where speech is silent and the political system exists to enable Islamofascists and to silence the few remaining patriots resisting them. The United Kingdom has chosen to use 1984 as an instruction manual.
America is next.
How soon will they replace Rue Britania with Stand By Me?
I don’t look up old dystopian sci-fi movies to watch any more. I just watch the news from Britain.
People in Britain have largely stopped watching the “news”
So true, but the annoying thing is that you still need to pay the licence fee or pay a fine or go to jail.
You only need to pay the license fee if you watch live tv not YouTube or Netflix or prime only traditional live tv. And BBC iplayer.
They will send threatening letters and demands but the best way to deal with them is to say nothing the vast majority of people who are fined say the wrong things and the number of people fined after the use of TV detection technology is ZERO.
Big Brothers Watching You signs plastered all over the UK so they cant oppose Big Brothers Plans to flood their Country with Islamic Radicals
Daniel,
Thank you again for sharing your great insight into the mindset of England and its present condition, especially through the lens of George Orwell—an author I know you greatly admire. Your reflections reminded me of how Orwell’s works were once mandatory reading in high school, and how deeply they have stayed with me.
The quote I carry with me most, whenever Orwell is mentioned, is this:
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
This line, from 1984 (1949), is spoken by the inquisitor of the totalitarian regime and remains one of the most chilling, enduring warnings in literature. It continues to feel both relevant and powerful today.
I had an online back and forth with someone about a British lady arrested for praying silently across the street from an abortion clinic in the UK. Anyway, this person said it didn’t happen and I said yes it did and I told that person to go to YT as there were videos of a number of people confronted and arrested by the UK police. Other commenters jumped in and supported the police action because, as they said, the staff and clientele should not be subjected to the silent prayers of abortion opponents blah blah blah. I don’t know if these replies to me came from Brits or US.
The point is, they’ve been deeply indoct-ed already.
There is a tendency for institutions to move towards becoming, more authoritative. Resist this. You can’t let this go until it’s 1983.
Is this one of Stammer’s totalitarian moves, reminiscent of Biden’s Disinformation Board? Is this the politics, in the UK today, fooling the public with their right hand while slipping the unseen left hand around to intimidate and steal their rights away?
The UK is becoming a fading shadow of those patriots who once fought so bravely against the Nazis and Fascists in WWII.
This is what communists always do and always will.
Britain is finished, certainly the cities are overrun by savagery and every homeless person I saw in Manchester this week was a white man.
I witnessed young Muslim men targeting young girls with Palestinian propaganda.
I witnessed perverted weirdos prancing around and thankfully I’m on my way home now, on a train so I’m probably going to be late but at least I’m out of the Sh! T hole.
Keep warning the world Daniel.
Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind, it’s only a matter of time i suppose
Daniel Greenfield presents a grim picture of media manipulation in the U.K. It hurts me to see that a country that outlawed slavery about 30 years before the USA now wants to enslave its population through mind control. It hurts that the English civilization that spawned our love for rights by its own Declaration of Rights of 1689 is now burying that tradition with this type of legislation but also with laws allowing the mass migration of people who do not want to adjust to Western and British culture but who are profoundly opposed to that culture. Starter is a stinking liar, and honestly I am amazed that Trump can sit in the same room or shake hands with the man. I like Nigel Farage.
I misspelled Starmer above where I wrote “Starter.”
All one needs to know about the loss of Britain is to read the BBC web site reporting on American news. The overt bias and tactless reportage betray an agenda too vile to come from anyone but the Enemy.
I think you meant marching orders, not matching orders.
If I lived in England with my family the way things are now, I’d be working toward selling off my home and lands, getting our “papers” and affairs current, and be keeping a weather eye out for a handy sailing vessel capable of blue water going.
That’s what the Pilgrims did when the Brit “godlets in pantaloons” grew too tedious and obnoxious.
Of course, in the years since then most of the unsettled places worthy of setling have been settled.. and are in the man nearly as unsuitable as much of Europe is today.
I killed my telly back in 1972 and have not regretted it for above ten seconds. I wonder what this Starmer creature would to to me for not afflicting my mind with his mandated programmes?
I expect a flood of Brits into the US (legally) not too long from now. I will be glad to see it.
GB has been marching head on into socialism for decades now. I listen to a couple British talk shows and it seems I hear about another govt program that smacks of socialism every day. Of course, there is the NHS but from the welfare programs to the retirement schemes one would think every one in the nation is receiving one form of assistance or another. (You can qualify for a govt paid for automobile for maladies as benign as “anxiety” or “incontinence”.)
Is it any wonder the govt feels entitled to control speech when they already control so much more of your way of life? It looks to me like the Brits have come up against the axiom made famous by Judge Ito in the OJ trial: “careful what you ask for, you just might get it.”
Call from America to a British friend:
American friend: “What’s it like living in the UK ?”
British friend: “I can’t complain.”
American friend: “That’s good”
British friend: ” No I mean I can’t complain. I can get arrested.”
Daniel Greenfield warns us that America is next. ☠️! He says
UK-destroying Imran Ahmed’s group now operates out of
Washington, DC and lobbies our Congress to do the same.
Daniel’s deadly warning is so right in portending blackest,
bleakest darkness for America too. Because the Islamists and
Communists never ever stop in clamping down on opposing
views and free speech.
Today, in the NY Post, there’s an article about a young Jewish
nurse – Leviah Ehrlich – who works at NY-Langone Hospital in
Mineola on Long Island. As a free American, she dared to post
on social media right after the Hamas terror attack on Israel Oct.
7, 2023 her objections to Hamas. The hospital – that corporate
conglomerate – is severely disciplining her, even requiring her to
return $11,000 in promotion earnings – for stating her opinion as
a private citizen.
Communists and Islamists are all around us in every state, including
in DC working – as in the UK – to subjugate us. Why do you think
Islamist-Communist Zohran Mamdani is poised to take over America’s
most powerful city as Mayor? WTFU! America is most definitely next!