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As you know, the UK Government is threatening to close down X by using Ofcom as the means. So that begs the question, who and what is Ofcom?
Let me introduce some of them to you.
First, the history.
Ofcom was launched on December 29, 2003. It was a Tony Blair thing. The idea behind it was aimed at creating a “super-regulator” from five prior bodies: the Broadcasting Standards Commission, Independent Television Commission, Office of Telecommunications , Radio Authority, and Radio communications Agency. So it was power grab from the start. It was supposed to be all about enforcing competition, such as mandating BT’s separation into Openreach for wholesale access, but it now handles recent expansions like video-on-demand (2016) and online safety under the 2023 Online Safety Act. The latter is where things get serious!!
The British Government wants to now weaponise Ofcom into becoming the global controller of all on-line communications and nowhere is this more evident in the current threats against X. Elon Musk’s platform has been chosen as the prime target because it is the most free speech platform of them all, and the biggest. If OFCOM can bully Musk, it can bully anyone. I have little doubt that the motivation behind all this is political and globalist. Ofcom exists to ensure controlled speech, speech that the regime likes. It wants dissent crushed. It wants news curated. It wants YOU controlled.
Ofcom has an enemy though and that is the current US Trump regime. I suspect that the threat of US retaliation against draconian OFCOM led fines and bans will temper things. For now. But be under no illusion that just as some of us love being able to speak freely, others HATE it and they are the people that are in Government and in Ofcom!
