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The UK government’s communications regulator Ofcom is facing backlash and a federal lawsuit after asserting that the U.S. Constitution does not protect American citizens from its online censorship laws.

Under the United Kingdom’s sweeping Online Safety Act, Ofcom has been sending enforcement letters to small U.S. platforms, including 4chan and Kiwi Farms.

Ofcom is demanding compliance with British speech regulations and threatening heavy fines for noncompliance. ...

Preston Byrne, an attorney representing 4chan, Kiwi Farms, and two other American companies, said the regulator’s actions were “frankly asinine.”

“My clients are entirely American,” Byrne said.

“All of their operations are American.

“All of their infrastructure is American, and they have no connection to the UK whatsoever.”

Despite that, Ofcom reportedly threatened the companies with “a £20,000 fine plus £100 daily penalties for 60 days thereafter.” ...

Byrne said his team has reached out to the White House, both houses of Congress, and several lawmakers are now exploring legislation to block foreign censorship enforcement on U.S. soil.

“I’m advised that there are a number of senators in Congress and representatives in Congress who are looking at introducing a bill to put a stop to this,” he said.

Byrne added that he is also backing a New Hampshire state law that would create a $1 million penalty per occurrence against any foreign regulator that tries to enforce censorship inside the United States, along with a waiver of sovereign immunity in state courts.

The meme lightly mocked two well-known figures in Granbury politics, activist Tina Brown and former school board candidate Monica Brown.

The post jokingly suggested that Tina supported the candidate she strongly opposes.

To locals familiar with years of political rivalry between the two women, the post was clearly tongue-in-cheek.

Republican precinct chair Sarah Fields described it as exactly that, noting it was “an obviously satirical meme to the local audience, who knew that Tina ‘Karen’ Brown has no love for the former Granbury ISD school board candidate, Monica Brown.”

Google Censored Vaccine Info Long Before COVID — Could It Have Anything to Do With Parent Company Alphabet’s Deep Pharma Ties?

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, admitted to Congress that the Biden administration pressured YouTube, owned by Google, to remove videos that didn’t even violate its content policies.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Big Tech companies colluded with the government to silence dissent and criticisms of the lockdowns and a coercive mass vaccination campaign by censoring truthful information that did not align with the political agenda.

The Biden administration’s role in the censorship regime was the subject of a May 2024 congressional report titled “The Censorship-Industrial Complex.”

Three months after that report was released, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter to Congress that Facebook had censored factual information under pressure from the White House.

In September, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, responded to a congressional subpoena with a letter similarly disclosing how the Biden administration had pressured YouTube, owned by Google, to remove videos that didn’t even violate its content policies.

Unelected European Union (EU) authorities have officially launched the long-anticipated “Democracy Shield,” a sweeping initiative that consolidates every major censorship and monitoring program built over the past decade.

These censorship and surveillance systems are now fused into a single, centralized apparatus to police information, identity, and online speech. ...

The Democracy Shield creates a “European Network of Fact-Checkers,” funded directly by the EU and positioned as an “independent” system even as it operates under the same institutions setting censorship policies.

Dries Van Langenhove was convicted on June 20, 2025, by the Ghent Court of Appeal for violating Belgium’s racism and negationism laws.

Macron’s Mission to Muzzle the Internet
A president once enamored with disruption now dreams of an internet that obeys his censorship demands.

... The plan, delivered between polite applause and nodding journalists, is a major expansion of France’s digital control architecture: fast-track censorship orders, new powers for state agencies, a legal war against “false accounts,” criminal liability for platforms, and a promise to ban social media for anyone under fifteen, enforced by the same age-checking system used for pornography.

The speech was a kind of legislative fever dream, where misinformation, harassment, and child protection were all conflated into a single moral emergency requiring more state authority and faster judicial reflexes. Macron’s frustration was clear. He wants the ability to hit delete.