Friday, May 2, 2025

BitChute Discontinues its Video Hosting Service in the UK, Blames Online Safety Act

by Toby Young, Daily Sceptic:

BitChute, the pro-free speech alternative to YouTube, has decided to stop operating in the UK for fear of being censured – and fined – by Ofcom, following the regulator’s acquisition of sweeping new powers under the Online Safety Act. No doubt BitChute will be the first of many American social media companies to stop offering their services in the UK as a result of the Online Safety Act. Since March 17th, Ofcom can fine social media companies up to 10% of their annual global turnover if they fail to comply with the Act. A dark day for freedom of speech.

Scrapping The First Amendment at the Behest of a Foreign Power

from Reese Report:

TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/

UK Govt Tries to Force Foreign Companies to Curtail Free Speech.

from The National Pulse:

PULSE POINTS:

❓What Happened: The United Kingdom’s (UK) government is enforcing its Online Safety Act 2023 globally, targeting foreign platforms like Gab and Kiwi Farms to comply with its online safety standards. Gab refuses to comply, facing potential penalties.

👥 Who’s Involved: The British government; U.S. social platform Gab and forum Kiwi Farms; the UK’s Office of Communications (Ofcom); Gab CEO Andrew Torba; the U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer; and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

BREAKING! Explosives Discovered at Tesla in Austin!

Paid a visit to the ATF today. It’s a new era — one where Americans will be kept safe and their Constitutional rights will be protected.

An EMP Attack on the U.S. Power Grids and Critical National Infrastructure

by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:

Steven Starr is an expert knowledgeable about high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (EMP).  His analysis leads him to the conclusion that an opponent doesn’t need large numbers of nuclear weapons to destroy the United States.  Three will suffice.

Starr’s analysis will be considered controversial, because it shows EMP to be a grave risk to the safety of nuclear power plants. The Nuclear Regulator Commission (NRC), a captured agency, denies that EMP poses a threat because the nuclear utilities do not want to be forced to spend lots of money to correct design flaws in their plants.

The Speech Police

by CJ Hopkins, Off Guardian:

OK, this one is for all the professional “sensitivity editors” out there, and for the US Department of Homeland Security, and President Donald Trump, and the European Union censors, and all the other self-appointed Speech Police that have been goose-stepping around dictating what everyone can and can’t say and publish and think all the time like a bunch of sanctimonious little fascists.

If you’re easily offended, you’ll probably want to skip this one.

The Death of Free Speech in America?

by Philip Giraldi, The Unz Review:

There should be little doubt in anyone’s mind that the “wag the dog” relationship between the United States and Israel has done terrible damage to American institutions and constitutional liberties. The US bipartisan unconditional support of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people has not gone unnoticed by the rest of the world which now despises America’s corrupt political system and its increasing bizarre and out of touch leadership. There were even reports this past week that Washington and Tel Aviv have been discussing shipping upwards of two million Palestinians to Sudan and Somalia, two of the most violent places on earth, to permit the development of Trump Gaza resort and the annexation of the rest of historic Palestine by Israel.

The Glow Of The Gaslight: Media Are Servants Of The US Intel Community And Its Blob Tentacles – They Do As They Are Told For Their Masters

by James Howard Kunstler, All News Pipeline:

“There’s a chance to restore democracy from the bureaucracy, but just a chance.” —Elon Musk

CBS 60-Minutes’ Gaslighter-in-Chief Scott Pelley was at it again Sunday night trying to put over the story that Donald Trump had unfairly cashiered a broad swathe of federal agency Inspectors General — whose job it is to investigate crime, mischief, and administrative malfeasance. In the spotlight sat one Hampton Dellinger, Special Counsel to the independent Office of Special Counsel, who just resigned after a court battle over his firing weeks ago.

The Deep State’s War on Truth—Waged with Doublespeak, Delusion and Propaganda

by John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute:

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” — George Orwell

The Deep State’s war on truth is being waged with doubletalk, delusion and propaganda.

Through deliberate manipulation of language—what George Orwell called “doublespeak”—Donald Trump has provided cover for the Deep State’s continued grip on power.

While promising to drain the swamp, his administration has instead relied on contradictory policies, misinformation, and propaganda to further entrench the very system he claims to oppose. Although the Trump administration is merely the latest frontman for the Deep State’s efforts to maintain its stranglehold on power, we are approaching a tipping point beyond which there may be no turning back to freedom as we have known it.

Trump’s Demand to Ban Masks at Protests Echoes ADL’s Demand Just One Day Prior

by Chris Menahan, Information Liberation:

Is the Trump administration now working with the Anti-Defamation League?

President Trump’s demand on Tuesday to ban masks at “illegal” anti-Israel protests came just one day after Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt issued the same demand at the ADL’s “Never is Now” conference.

The West’s Support For Israel Is The #1 Threat To Free Speech

by Caitlin Johnstone, Caitlin Johnstone:

President Trump has made a post on Truth Social saying federal funding will be cut to universities which allow “illegal protests” on their campuses, obliquely referring to pro-Palestine demonstrations against Israel’s genocidal atrocities.

“All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests,” Trump said. “Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!”

Trump Compares Britain to China Over Demand to Weaken iCloud Privacy

by Christopher Tomlinson, The National Pulse:

President Donald J. Trump has compared the United Kingdom to Communist China over demands made by their leftist government that Apple weaken its iCloud encryption and allow the state to spy on users worldwide. Trump criticized Labour Party Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, saying, “We actually told [Starmer] … that’s incredible. That’s something, you know, that you hear about with China.”

The British government demanded that Apple allow them a backdoor to get around Apple’s Advanced Data Protection system in iCloud, an optional way for users to encrypt their data. Instead of complying, Apple removed the feature for users within the United Kingdom.

Queen of EU Compares Free Speech to Virus

from Moonbattery:

Covid tyranny is a template for imposing totalitarianism. Left-wing authoritarians in China evidently created the virus, possibly as a bioweapon. Their counterparts in the West exploited it to pass out other people’s money, erode freedom, and explode the size of government. It is not surprising to see EU types think in terms of disease. In the video below, President of the European Commission Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen compares free speech to a virus against which vaccination is required:

They literally lock up people for Facebook posts, silent prayer, and grannies get police visits for telling politicians to resign…