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Trump Halts Major $41 Billion Tech Deal with UK Government Over Censorship Laws

The vision of a sweeping U.S.–U.K. technology partnership has now stalled after President Donald Trump formally paused the high-profile tech agreement amid growing concerns that the United Kingdom’s new Online Safety Act gives British regulators unprecedented power to police the speech of American companies and AI systems.

The suspension marks a significant setback for what had been promoted as a landmark economic and research partnership between Silicon Valley and London.

According to negotiators, the turning point came as U.S. officials concluded that Britain intended to apply its speech-restriction regime to American platforms and AI models operating outside the U.K.

UK Rolls Out Orwellian ‘Toxic Ideas’ Crackdown on Schoolboys

For years, British authorities looked the other way as grooming gangs preyed on vulnerable girls, often refusing to intervene for fear of appearing “racist.”

Now the government has unveiled a sweeping new strategy that reframes the country’s cultural crisis as a problem not of foreign-led rape networks, but of British boys supposedly becoming “radicalized” into “misogyny” and “toxic ideas.”

Under the plan, schools will be turned into front-line surveillance hubs tasked with monitoring boys for “signs of misogyny,” sending those flagged as “high risk” into behavior-reeducation programs.

Not going to work. Biology always trumps ideology.

The UK’s socialist Labour Party-controlled government has rejected calls from the British public to roll back its Orwelian censorship laws, instead doubling down on digital restrictions even as backlash intensifies at home and abroad.

Britain’s globalist government rejected widespread public demands to roll back its sweeping Online Safety Act (OSA).

More than 160,000 Britons signed a petition urging Parliament to repeal the Act, a law critics warn has rapidly evolved from a child-protection measure into one of the most aggressive censorship systems in the democratic world.

Instead of reconsidering, MPs used the debate to push for even stricter controls on VPNs, age-verification tools, encrypted messaging platforms, and AI chatbots.

The debate in a sparsely attended Westminster Hall session revealed a stark divide as the public demands digital freedom, and the government presses for deeper surveillance and expanded authority.

Britain needs a First Amendment, and a Second Amendment to protest the First.