Joe Rogan: State of Free Speech in the UK is Worse Than Russia
More people arrested for “hateful” tweets.
Responding to the recent authoritarian crackdown, Joe Rogan pointed out that more people get arrested in the UK for “thought crimes” on social media than they do in Russia.
“Terrible government overreach – you’re seeing it now in England where people are getting arrested for tweets,” said the podcast host.
“People talk about Soviet Russia, like how bad Russia is in terms of cracking down on thought police and cracking down on bad tweets and things like that,” he added
JOE ROGAN: UK’S SPEECH CRACKDOWN REMINDS ME OF SOVIET RUSSIA
“The fact that they’re comfortable with finding people who’ve said something that they disagree with and putting them in a f—king cage in England in 2024 is really wild.
Especially, they’re saying you can get… pic.twitter.com/r1nMOKZLZJ
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 9, 2024
Rogan then compared how Russia polices free speech on social media compared to the UK.
In Russia, only around 400 people are arrested each year for ‘hateful’ tweets, while that number is around 3,300 in the UK.
“The fact that they’re comfortable with finding people who’ve said something they disagree with and putting them in a fucking cage in England in 2024 is really wild,” said Rogan.
He then drew attention to a recent statement by Stephen Parkinson, the Director of Public Prosecutions, who told Sky News that merely retweeting information about the UK riots could lead to criminal charges.
Rogan pointed out that the term “hateful” is completely subjective “and in our lifetime we’ve seen that get moved,” before explaining how ‘deadnaming’ a transgender person by referring to them by their original name is now treated as “hateful”.
As we highlighted yesterday, a woman in Cheshire was arrested for tweeting “inaccurate information” about the killer of three girls in Southport.
Meanwhile, one of the latest arrests in the UK in the aftermath of the riots is of a man who wrote “filthy bastards” on Facebook alongside an emoji of an ethnic minority person and a gun.
He will now spend the next 12 weeks in prison.
MAN JAILED IN UK FOR COMMENTING ON FACEBOOK POST ABOUT RIOTS
31-year-old Billy Thompson was sent to prison for 12 weeks after he replied “Filthy ba**ards” on a post about the Police issuing a dispersal order to try and prevent protests from becoming violent.
It also included… pic.twitter.com/7t5LRYvigZ
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 9, 2024
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