“Think Before Your Post” is a Perfect Orwellian Slogan – Designed to Intimidate the Public into Silence

The UK’s brutal crackdown on free speech to silence those who oppose the tyrannical oppression of the leftist Islamic axis. If you tell good people that just observing a counter jihad rally or immigration protest will result in jail – they won’t come now, will they?

From Geller Report reader, Mr. P:

I happen to live in Finchley. Let me set the record straight here. For the last week, it has been particularly quiet in Finchley central, with a lot of families on vacation and traffic nearly at a standstill because one lane of the main north-south route was taken out for roadworks. This was completed last night and now traffic has returned to normal. In north Finchley rioting was anticipated because there is a Jewish charity which always attracts protestors, but the police did what they always do – which is to completely block off the whole area with cars and vans in order to keep rival protestors apart. As a result, nothing much happened and things reverted to business as usual.

As for our Police Commissioner, he seems to have gone insane. He is indulging himself with all sorts of threats that say more about his unfitness for office than the realities of the law. To describe his fantasies of omnipotent powers of world-wide arrest of foreign citizens that make comments that he doesn’t like as “overreach” is an understatement. He has no such powers and never will have them. Britain can’t even extradite murder suspects from the US, so his idea that Facebook likes and posts on X will have Americans filling British jails is reason enough to fire him.

What you are hearing from the entire British establishment is a tsunami of threats and intimidation designed to shut up the British public online. The establishment has been shaken by the reaction to events in Southport, and they don’t know how to respond other that what you are seeing and hearing. This is a display of weakness and their complete lack of empathy with the majority of white British working class will ensure that until the causes of these protests are acknowledged and faced up to, the possibility of violent disorder, protests and rioting will grow. What are the causes? To put it in a nutshell, the British are being made second class citizens in their own country while illegal immigrants are given all sorts of privileges that they don’t deserve, such as being moved to the front of the line for housing while taxpaying British workers are always pushed to the back and denied any opportunity to get a house themselves. Now we have two-tier policing and a two-tier justice system that everyone can see with their own eyes. Up until now most people tolerated this flagrantly unfair system while they seethed underneath. Those days are over.

Britain is going full Orwell … 1984-style

The more the media, politicians, and the police lose control of the narrative, the more shrill, hysterical and, frankly, insane they all become.

The British government is eyeing a crackdown social media, while a member of the public has been arrested for “inaccurate social media” post, and a Covid-era government spy team monitoring the public for “disinformation” has been brought back.

Britain has experienced days of civil unrest including protest, riots, and confrontations between ethnic groups since the mass-stabbing and murders of young children last week. Hundreds have been arrested for acts of violence and incitement, including a cop-bashing middle-aged gay couple on their way home from the bingo, counter-protester “Asian males” who assaulted Union Jack-wearing men, and a Labour politician who called for his political enemies to have their throats cut at a ‘peace’ rally.

The government has gone hard on social media, warning both users and platform owners that severe consequences would follow for the disinformation the government said is causing the unrest. Now the time has come to deliver on those threats, it seems, and in comments made at the headquarters of London’s Metropolitan Police at Scotland Yard Friday morning Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced he was minded to crack down on the internet. He said, reports The Guardian: “we’re going to have to look more broadly at social media after this disorder… this is not a law-free zone. And I think that’s clear from the prosecutions and sentencing.” The Prime Minister boasted there would be “sentencing for online behaviour” in courts today, and reiterated “whether you’re directly involved or whether you’re remotely involved, you’re culpable, and you will be put before the courts”

The government’s new slogan “think before your post” is a perfect Orwellian slogan – designed to intimidate the public into self-censoring. Cheshire Police boasted on Thursday evening they had arrested a woman “in connection with inaccurate social media post” stating “a woman in relation to social media post containing inaccurate information about the identity of the attacker in the Southport murders.”

The leader of civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, Silkie Carlo, expressed alarm at this language from the Police, stating their press release was “so badly written” — even though it was probably meant to be deliberately vague. Offering her interpretation of the law, Carlo claimed that it is not, in fact, an offence to accidentally post inaccurate information on social media unless it was intentional stirring of racial hatred or knowingly publishing false information intending to cause non-trivial harm.

“These are serious allegations and shouldn’t be trivialised, nor the law misrepresented, for short term political goals” said the anti-government overreach activist, reflecting on the vague police statement: “I assume the intention is to scare people and prompt more caution in social posting.”

Meanwhile, a Coronavirus-era shadowy government unit that Carlo’s Big Brother Watch campaigned against at the time has been resurrected by the Starmer government. The Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) is coming back, now given a fresh identity as the National Security Online Information Team (NSOIT) is pivoting from snooping on anti-lockdown activists — including Members of Parliament — to protest content, instead, reports The Daily Telegraph. The observation unit is already embedded within social media companies as a “trusted flagger”, meaning it can bring content the government doesn’t want live to the attention of their moderation teams directly. The online content the unit is going after falls short of criminal activity but nevertheless is considered unwelcome, so anyone posting something the government doesn’t like can expect a visit from the police, sooner or later.

The Ministry of Truth:The Secretive Government Units Spying on Your Speech

The Telegraph: Secretive Covid-era ‘spy’ agency brought in to monitor social media during riots: National Security Online Information Team to play central role in response to violence sweeping UK

The British government is going to war with social media companies, and probably in particular Elon Musk’s X, given his strident views on freedom of speech and the importance of having a public square for ideas to be challenged. Musk has been openly goading Starmer for days, something which Member of Parliament Nigel Farage has characterised as the billionaire getting the first punch in, before the legislative hammer falls.

Speaking to TalkTV on Thursday, Mr Farage said: “What I think is really interesting is the war of words that Elon Musk has launched against Starmer. You can almost tell that’s a pre-emptive strike. He senses that the Labour government, regulators… that things are going to get more difficult. But you know what? Governments that try and ban things, government that try and suppress things, all they do is create new avenues for people to go. And I honestly think that to control the internet, to control that debate, it’s almost impossible.”

Amen to that. The EU itself has more or less given up on censoring X and acknowledged that they cannot force a corporation based in the US to bend to its will, and anyone that thinks making threats against people making comments online will extinguish their protests is seriously deluded.

Article 10 of Human Rights Act 1998 – Freedom of Expression