submitted by doginventer to news2 weeksApr 15, 2025 05:50:02 ago (+43/-0) (news)
ATTENTION: UK Visitor Detected The following notice applies specifically to users accessing from the United Kingdom.
UK Flag "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." John Milton (Areopagitica, 1644, on free speech) ACCESS RESTRICTED BY PROVIDER
After receiving yet another demand from the UK's speech police, Ofcom, Gab has made the decision to block the entire United Kingdom from accessing our website.
This latest email from Ofcom ordered us to disclose information about our users and operations. We know where this leads: compelled censorship and British citizens thrown in jail for "hate speech." We refuse to comply with this tyranny.
Gab is an American company with zero presence in the UK. Ofcom's demands have no legal force here. To enforce anything in the United States, they'd need to go through a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request or letters rogatory. No U.S. court is going to enforce a foreign censorship regime. The First Amendment forbids it.
Ofcom will likely try to make an example of us anyway. That's because the UK's Online Safety Act isn't about protecting children. It's about suppressing dissent.
They're welcome to try. The idea that a British regulator can pressure a U.S. company that's IP-blocking the entire UK is as farcical as it is futile. If anything, it proves our point: censorship doesn't work. It only reveals the truth about the censors.
We proudly join platforms like Bitchute in boycotting the United Kingdom. American companies should follow suit. The power of the UK's parliament ends where the First Amendment begins.
The only way to vote against the tyranny of the UK's present regime is to walk away from it, refuse to comply, and take refuge under the impervious shelter of the First Amendment.
The UK's rulers want their people kept in the dark. Let them see how long the public tolerates it as their Internet vanishes, one website at a time.
They are not bending the knee. Quite the opposite. UK users will obviously still be able to access gab via vpn or similar.
They are literally telling the uk government to go choke on a shitty dick, (though kier starmer is probably into that type of thing)
Without this, GAB would be compelled to provide ip addresses to the uk gov, and jump through a bunch of bs regs.
So now, when the uk zogbots get uoset because some local dares to opine the thought that maybe he doesn't want his daughter harrased or worse by the new guests that are staying in the local hotel at his expense..gab will rightly and legally not just tell them to fuck off, but will place any communication from the uk directly into the spam shredder, unread.
WanderingToast 0 points 2 weeks ago
They are not bending the knee. Quite the opposite. UK users will obviously still be able to access gab via vpn or similar.
They are literally telling the uk government to go choke on a shitty dick, (though kier starmer is probably into that type of thing)
Without this, GAB would be compelled to provide ip addresses to the uk gov, and jump through a bunch of bs regs.
So now, when the uk zogbots get uoset because some local dares to opine the thought that maybe he doesn't want his daughter harrased or worse by the new guests that are staying in the local hotel at his expense..gab will rightly and legally not just tell them to fuck off, but will place any communication from the uk directly into the spam shredder, unread.
This is how their system of censorship collapses