{"id":98946,"date":"2025-11-08T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=98946"},"modified":"2025-11-07T21:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:33:24","slug":"think-before-you-post-how-the-uk-fell-to-a-sinister-new-form-of-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/11\/08\/think-before-you-post-how-the-uk-fell-to-a-sinister-new-form-of-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Think Before You Post<\/em> | How the UK fell to a sinister new form of censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T0smxO4WiOA?si=ke-ctMXyZBnjUS67\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>spiked<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 27 Oct 2025<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Think before you post.&#8221; Those were the words screamed out by government social-media accounts, threatening to lock up people for &#8220;hate speech&#8221;, as riots swept the United Kingdom in the summer of 2024. To those who hadn&#8217;t been paying attention, it offered a stark insight into a supposedly liberal, democratic nation that had come to police speech as much as, sometimes even more so, than actual violence. Inciting racial hatred, inciting religious hatred, &#8220;grossly offensive&#8221; online communications \u2013 over the past 60 years or so, Britain has written one new speech crime after another into its statute books. And it has led to a situation in which at least 30 people a day are now arrested in England and Wales for social-media posts. This is a documentary about some of those speech criminals. What we found out was even more chilling than the headlines would have you believe. Featuring: Maxie Allen, Rosalind Levine, Toby Young, Allison Pearson, Luke Gittos and Jamie Michael.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>spiked Published 27 Oct 2025 &#8220;Think before you post.&#8221; Those were the words screamed out by government social-media accounts, threatening to lock up people for &#8220;hate speech&#8221;, as riots swept the United Kingdom in the summer of 2024. To those who hadn&#8217;t been paying attention, it offered a stark insight into a supposedly liberal, democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,84,9,10,28,53,15],"tags":[459,186,1411,98,593,417],"class_list":["post-98946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-government","category-law","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","category-technology","tag-censorship","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-keirstarmer","tag-police","tag-socialmedia","tag-victimlesscrime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pJU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98947,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98946\/revisions\/98947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}