Darwinian Marinian

I have blocked and muted Ian Miles Cheong because he's a dishonest grifter who swatted someone. And yet I keep seeing his posts every time I check a trend he's commented on. I thought the block function was supposed to let me control what I don't want to see, why doesn't it work?

Free speech is the hallmark of any successful democratic society. We are in a free speech crisis. Too many leaders across the Western world are neglecting its importance — and in some cases treating it with open disdain. In the UK, the Orwellian Online Safety Act is censoring…

I was arrested for exercising my free speech within 2km of the European Commission.

"Censorship is for your own good"--the cry of all authoritarians through the centuries.

“Protecting children online is important. But there is a difference between that and mass censorship.” The CEO of Substack says it is clear that the Online Safety Act is bad for free speech. It represents a system of mass political censorship unlike anywhere else in the Western…

A “safeguarding” board has claimed children are “at risk of harm” from Jamie Michael because he called Southport killer, Axel Rudakubana, a “creature”. The ex-Royal Marine has been banned from working with children — including coaching his daughter’s football team — for…

I think most Europeans are actually completely ignorant about their track record for arrests for social media posts, probably because their press is captive and the data is almost always heavily censored / not released. But here are the facts: - UK: >10k arrests per year for…

🚨 A teacher was sacked and branded a risk to children after telling a Muslim pupil that Britain is a Christian country. This is the second example in less than 48 hours of local authorities manipulating safeguarding laws to silence people whose views don’t align with theirs.…

Ex-footballer Joey Barton has been sentenced for “grossly offensive” social media posts. Joey Barton was charged with twelve counts of sending “grossly offensive” messages with intent to cause distress or anxiety on social media, and was found guilty of six. He has been handed a…

A jury took just 17 minutes to unanimously clear Royal Marine veteran, Jamie Michael, of stirring up racial hatred after he was arrested for a posting a video about illegal immigration. Despite their verdict, Jamie has been banned from working with children. An official…

You say it's not about censorship ("content moderation") but it is. You want to censor who gets verified. And you want X to give government-picked "researchers" special access to data so they can demand censorship. The Twitter Files revealed your censorship-by-proxy scam.

General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young of Acton, asked the Justice Minister in the House of Lords to guarantee that at least people accused of speech crimes have a right to a jury trial, which is such an important bulwark of free speech. She declined. Trial by…

🚨 Sign our petition to stop David Lammy’s assault on free speech! @SpeechUnion is extremely concerned about David Lammy’s proposal to scrap the 800 year-old right to trial by jury. Juries are a bulwark of English liberty, particularly the right to free speech. They are often…

This is Norbert Gyurcsik. He has just been sent to prison for nearly 4 years in a UK prison. His crime? "Possessing and distributing extreme right-wing music and material." Child rapists get less time in prison. This is British Justice.

Cutting jury trials will undermine free speech. The Deputy Prime Minister’s plans are the biggest assault on our liberties in 800 years. Research by the Free Speech Union shows that defendants who justify their actions on free-speech grounds are almost twice as likely to be…

Graham Linehan: Arrested for Trans Tweets Watch the full episode with @Glinner right here on X.

A man was arrested by police in Britain after he posted a picture online of himself posing with a gun in the US He was then held overnight in a cell and bailed… “I was told to be careful what I say online and I need to understand how it makes people feel,” WHAT?? The police…

Et dans la rue, au travail, les gens se parlent. Imaginez. Des repas de famille ont lieu, sans la moindre autorité de régulation. A minima, il faudrait des agents formés pour orienter les conversations, corriger les infos non labellisées, bannir les déviants, sensibiliser mémé.

Where did they get this supposed information from? This cannot be true, as I was recovering after my surgery at my home in France at the time.

When Hamit Coskun’s conviction was overturned last month, it was a victory for free speech. Now the CPS is trying to overturn the judgement of Mr Justice Bennathan in the Crown Court. If they succeed, it will send a clear message to non-believers: if you refuse to observe…

You couldn’t make this up. The Rich Mix Cinema has cancelled Spiked’s screening of its new documentary on free speech — Think Before You Post. This is an appalling look for The Rich Mix Cinema, but also a point proven. It is not the first time one of Spiked’s documentaries on…