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Well, we have seen the Supreme Court in Brazil ban the X/Twitter platform from that country. The reason for this ban appears to be that Elon Musk will not comply with the censorious demands of the Brazilian extreme left government and its criminal judiciary. Not only is the app banned in Brazil but anyone found to be using a VPN to get around such a ban is liable for a fine amounting to approximately $9000 which is truly enormous.
One other piece of relevant context is to understand that X is the most downloaded app in Brazil and all of a sudden all Brazilians are now cut off from this app. Welcome to the new world order where restrictions on speech are deemed critical.
The question I want to consider is could such an event happen in the United Kingdom? I think the answer is YES I donthink it’s possible under the Starmer regime that access to the X app could be restricted to British users and circumstances could be manipulated to bring this situation about! The common theme between the Brazilian extreme left administration and the British extreme left administration is that in order for them to advance their hateful agenda they must first silence free speech.
It’s the fact than Elon Musk allows a reasonable degree of free speech on his platform which so offends both the Brazilian and I believe the British government. Is it possible that the British Supreme Court could make a determination that a platform such as X is being used to de-stabilise society, potentially inflame riots and facilitate the breakdown of the rule of law that’s pretty much one of the messages that we’ve had from Starmer during the past six weeks after all! That might well trigger a lecture from Starmer and a restriction if not a total ban.
Musk is imperfect but the fact of the matter is he does allow some challenge to the political establishment and in increasing authoritarian times that is a step too far! I stand with Musk.
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