Post At7mMjMXEqbdwPHJB2 by Flick@spinster.xyz
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(DIR) Post #At7leN7CamL6CUxETw by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-04-15T19:05:14.147083Z
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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.
(DIR) Post #At7lrNaq7sxRRp1HZw by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-04-15T19:07:11.395987Z
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@Flick 😑
(DIR) Post #At7mMjMXEqbdwPHJB2 by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-04-15T19:13:12.813989Z
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@mk in the not-impossible event that Spinster comes to the attention of a TRA working for Ofcom, do you know what you will do?
(DIR) Post #At7nUitWxg9olF5QVk by BILLSan345@spinster.xyz
2025-04-15T19:22:52.457972Z
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@Flick Tyranny is the right word -our government shows that it only believes in speech that is pre-cleansed by it, to conform to its self-defined 'safe' parameters.
(DIR) Post #At7owmoI65sgy1a5b6 by Kang_Kong3@poa.st
2025-04-15T19:42:11.388711Z
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@Flick Torba talks big but he folds to the feds every time. The American authorities have leaned on him hard ever since that nutter posted "screw the optics i'm going in" and then shot up the tree of life synagogue
(DIR) Post #At7tMuV8WZHkANKmNU by mk@spinster.xyz
2025-04-15T20:31:42.141231Z
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@Flick Without knowing much about the situation besides what I see here... We do not have any plans to comply with a foreign gov that has no jurisdiction over us, nor would we cut off Spinster users like this for no reason.
(DIR) Post #At8jrIly2k8jkN1HaS by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-04-16T06:19:53.035013Z
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@mk That’s reassuring, thank you.
(DIR) Post #At8jsvfktsBQgLtFQW by corruptian@mastodon.cloud
2025-04-15T19:51:28Z
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@Flick Seems like "free speech" is about to become the ground zero issue in politics.Over time, I have realized that it is worth zealously defending. Groupthink and denial are too powerful.
(DIR) Post #At8khgz3GwVjtW7auu by Leyonhjelm@shitposter.world
2025-04-16T06:29:19.303762Z
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@Flick > The power of the UK's parliament ends where the First Amendment begins.No, even outside that the UK has no power outside the UK. They don’t have enough authority outside their territory for the first amendment to even come into play. They, the EU, and all their faggot friends can go fuck themselves with their nonsensical claims of global jurisdiction.