Still a lack of time some days,

so intermittent posting.  

Today, in that place the ancestors got the hell out of(for which I'm really grateful),
The UK is now censoring lawful speech on the internet!

Over the weekend:

A parliamentary speech made by Conservative MP Katie Lam, highlighting the horrors of grooming gang abuse and condemning the Government’s delay in launching local inquiries scandal, was taken out of the public conversation. Social media posts expressing support for single-sex spaces as essential to the safety of biological women were removed from the feeds of UK users of X.
Videos of a public demonstration raising concerns over the government’s handling of illegal channel crossings were made inaccessible. When concerned citizens, civil liberties groups, legal experts and others warned that the Act would be used to censor lawful speech and suppress dissent . . . ministers in successive Conservative governments insisted it was all about keeping children safe. They brushed aside warnings, framing every objection as a threat to child welfare and smearing defenders of free expression as if they were complicit in harm.

Now, just days into the Online Safety Act’s censorious powers coming into force, it’s clear our warnings were justified: legal speech is being suppressed for people of all ages.

We are deeply concerned that the Online Safety Act has handed the Government powers that belong in a dictatorship, not a democracy.

Christopher Joyce is absolutely right. All this is dictatorship, not democracy.

Take the blocking of footage of police actions against protesters. It becomes much easier for the police to get away with criminal acts themselves, like the police being the ones who instigate violence, or like the police selectively using very different tactics against different groups of protesters. In Essex, where I live, the police escorted in hard-left activist protesters and then denied they had done so. Only footage on social media proved that they were lying. Block citizens from sharing truth, and you block truth altogether.

As bad as the Online Safety Act is, it’s not the thing that creates absolute tyranny. The Crime and Policing Bill is the thing that creates absolute tyranny.

This is from the excellent Mick Bolton at his substack (he was sharing an article by commercial law professor Andrew Tettenborn):
Bad situation, very.  

Instapundit had a piece the other day on information getting out no matter what the .gov and cops do, and it just might get nasty.   Probably.  At some point the cops are going to show up and act like the sorry excuses for peace officers they've become, and are going to be told "No", and they're going to lose it and do something they'll REALLY want to cover up, and it won't work.  Could say 'next step after the current start of the end'.

I just looked at the Daily Mail site, not one damned word about protests and such, or the actions and results of these new laws, which means they're being good little poodles.  We'll see if it lasts.