pjmedia.com “For the children” — the last refuge of the censorious tyrant.
Asked at a joint press conference with President Trump on his European tour earlier this week, Keir Starmer, current occupant of the premiership of the once-great British state, about his regime’s draconian censorship of social media, the PM resorted to the tried-and-true justification that rulers of his ilk always do at the end of their rope: the “children.”
Via The Independent (UK) (emphasis added):
Sir Keir Starmer has defended the Online Safety Act over claims it curbs freedom of speech.
The Prime Minister said the UK would protect free speech “forever” as he insisted the Act was about “child protection” rather than censorship.
Speaking alongside Donald Trump during the US president’s visit to Scotland, Sir Keir said: “We’re not censoring anyone. We’ve got some measures which are there to protect children, in particular, from sites like suicide sites.”
He added: “I personally feel very strongly that we should protect our young teenagers*, and that’s what it usually is, from things like suicide sites. I don’t see that as a free speech issue, I see that as child protection.”
A real humanitarian, this guy.
*Somehow, Starmer doesn’t seem overly concerned with “protecting young teenagers” from the Muslim grooming gangs that operate with near-impunity and enjoy near-total protection from public exposure via the media — facilitated in part, ironically, by the Online Safety Act.
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