News that the Met investigated reporter Jack Grove for four months just for researching Cambridge’s Jason Arday is incredible - yes, we have speech problems in the US, but the UK has an institutional mechanism to use police to stop reporting https://t.co/IkfAzA1Wrf
Britain isn’t an outlier.
New York. California. Australia.
Speech becomes “conduct.”
Words become “harm.”
The definition of “woman” quietly shifts.
Then ordinary people are punished for noticing reality.
This isn’t a series of isolated controversies.
It’s an architecture.
My new Substack traces the blueprint across different jurisdictions and shows why what’s happening in Britain is part of something much bigger.
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We are receiving reports that some Canadians are being contacted at their homes by government officials about social media posts made months or even years ago.
These reports come after the passage of Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, which expands Canada's hate speech laws by creating new offences, increasing penalties, and removing certain legal safeguards that previously limited prosecutions for hate-related expression.
If government officials contact you about your online posts, consider recording the interaction. If you believe your rights have been infringed or that you have been unfairly targeted, we encourage you to submit a case application through the Justice Centre's online portal here: https://t.co/s2YWpTJUSA
@LBelle355 I'm only 48 but I vividly remember standing in line with my parents at a grocery to be handed our monthly ration of luxuries such as meat, sugar or chocolate. Store shelves were empty, of course, and you only got what you were allotted with your food stamps.