Andrew Torba alerts us to Clown World trying to throw its weight around in the UK:
The government of the United Kingdom, wielding the controversial Online Safety Act 2023, has issued a direct ultimatum, launching a blatant assault on the principles of open discourse that define our community. They demand that Gab submit to their stringent censorship regime, threatening exorbitant fines potentially reaching £18 million or a crippling 10% of our global revenue if we refuse to bow to their demands.
Let us be clear: this is not about ensuring online “safety” as they claim; it is a thinly veiled attempt to exert absolute control over online expression, using ambiguous and undefined “hate speech” provisions as a weapon to silence dissent, criminalize unpopular opinions, and ultimately extinguish your fundamental right to speak freely and openly.
We unequivocally refuse to comply with these tyrannical demands. We will not pay one cent. Gab is, and always will be, a bastion for free speech, headquartered in the United States and operating under the protections of the First Amendment. Our legal team has already delivered a firm response to the UK authorities, asserting our position that Gab operates outside their jurisdiction and will not be implementing their censorship mandates.
This fight, however, extends far beyond legal technicalities; it represents a dangerous precedent where governments feel empowered to weaponize legislation to dictate acceptable thought and speech across borders. The sheer incompetence displayed in their threats—demanding a response by March 16, 2025, to a notice sent nearly two weeks later on March 26, 2025—only underscores the reckless and overreaching nature of this authoritarian push. This is the chaotic face of tyranny, and we will not yield to it.
We’re getting a very important lesson in the evils of globalism and universal jurisdiction here. For the entire history of Mankind, a man has always had the opportunity to vote with his feet. But the wicked satanists of Clown World hate humanity and hate freedom so much that they are trying to take even that fragment of hope away.
Of course, what that means is that there is no place for them in any human society. This is why the so-called “authoritarians” are infinitely preferable to the clowns with their fake freedoms, their fake democracies, their fake money, and their inverted virtues, despite all of their many flaws. At this point, war with Russia might well be the best thing for the British people, as it least it would eventually free them from their evil oppressors.