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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 icon 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.