{"id":292677,"date":"2024-08-10T04:55:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T04:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=292677"},"modified":"2024-08-11T07:36:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T07:36:24","slug":"joe-rogan-state-of-free-speech-in-the-uk-is-worse-than-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=292677","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan: State of Free Speech in the UK is Worse Than Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Paul Joseph Watson \u2013 modernity.new Aug 9, 2024<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Responding to the recent authoritarian crackdown, Joe Rogan pointed out that more people get arrested in the UK for \u201cthought crimes\u201d on social media than they do in Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTerrible government overreach \u2013 you\u2019re seeing it now in England where people are getting arrested for tweets,\u201d said the podcast host.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople 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,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8JOE ROGAN: UK\u2019S SPEECH CRACKDOWN REMINDS ME OF SOVIET RUSSIA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that they&#39;re comfortable with finding people who&#39;ve said something that they disagree with and putting them in a f\u2014king cage in England in 2024 is really wild.<\/p>\n<p>Especially, they\u2019re saying you can get\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r1nMOKZLZJ\">pic.twitter.com\/r1nMOKZLZJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarioNawfal\/status\/1821703410237735270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rogan then compared how Russia polices free speech on social media compared to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>In Russia, only around 400 people are arrested each year for \u2018hateful\u2019 tweets, while that number is around 3,300 in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that they\u2019re comfortable with finding people who\u2019ve said something they disagree with and putting them in a fucking cage in England in 2024 is really wild,\u201d said Rogan.<\/p>\n<p>He then drew attention to a <a href=\"https:\/\/modernity.news\/2024\/08\/07\/brits-warned-merely-retweeting-information-about-riots-could-be-a-criminal-offense\/\">recent statement<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Rogan pointed out that the term \u201chateful\u201d is completely subjective \u201cand in our lifetime we\u2019ve seen that get moved,\u201d before explaining how \u2018deadnaming\u2019 a transgender person by referring to them by their original name is now treated as \u201chateful\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As we <a href=\"https:\/\/modernity.news\/2024\/08\/08\/uk-authorities-now-arresting-people-for-posting-inaccurate-information-on-social-media\/\">highlighted<\/a> yesterday, a woman in Cheshire was arrested for tweeting \u201cinaccurate information\u201d about the killer of three girls in Southport.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, one of the latest arrests in the UK in the aftermath of the riots is of a man who wrote \u201cfilthy bastards\u201d on Facebook alongside an emoji of an ethnic minority person and a gun.<\/p>\n<p>He will now spend the next 12 weeks in prison.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7MAN JAILED IN UK FOR COMMENTING ON FACEBOOK POST ABOUT RIOTS<\/p>\n<p>31-year-old Billy Thompson was sent to prison for 12 weeks after he replied &quot;Filthy ba**ards&quot; on a post about the Police issuing a dispersal order to try and prevent protests from becoming violent.<\/p>\n<p>It also included\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7t5LRYvigZ\">pic.twitter.com\/7t5LRYvigZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarioNawfal\/status\/1821796789327982937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Your support is crucial in helping us defeat mass censorship. 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Follow us on X\u00a0<\/em><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/modernitynews\">@ModernityNews<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/modernity.news\/2024\/08\/09\/joe-rogan-state-of-free-speech-in-the-uk-is-worse-than-russia\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Russia, only around 400 people are arrested each year for \u2018hateful\u2019 tweets, while in the UK that number is around 3,300<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":292678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292679,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292677\/revisions\/292679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/292678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}