Barring politicians that stand against child sexual abuse, this is America…
UK officials may be barred from US over X ban
Submitted 1 day ago by blackn1ght@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/01/13/ofcom-x-ban-us-uk-grok/
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
If you can ban people for trying to enforce the law against an American site from entering America, does that therefore mean that Twitter is a state media outlet?
nickb333@fedia.io 10 hours ago
At the rate these bans are going they may just as well remove the UK from the visa waiver program.
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
🌍👨🚀🔫👨🚀
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 day ago
🤷♂️ Why would they want to come here anyway? So they can have their face scanned? Or their social media analyzed? Or be pulled off the street and deported by ICE for no reason?
hector@lemmy.today 1 day ago
UK politicians are as bad as any in the West. They manage to keep up the facade they aren’t fascists, but they are ahead of us in a lot of things, illegalizing protest, allowing politicians to unilaterally declare protest groups, direct police to arrest anyone protesting that issue as terrorist, they cancelled jury trials for up to 3 years in prison, cancelled for up to 1 year in 2020.
They created a masterbaitorbase, for national security purposes they’ve to know all the pages you’ve considered whacking off to, making you connect your likeness and id to your accounts and ip, keeping a record of everything you’ve done or said and subjecting it to ai threat detection run by palantir type companies to make secret social scores to be used against us. Together with age checks, they surrendered their populations to tech for a copy of the feed in effect.
What else, labor has done all of this too, the supposed good option, in a short period went full fascist.
Denjin@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I agree, but one one specific point:
they’ve to know all the pages you’ve considered whacking off to
As someone who has gone through developed vetting, GCHQ already know everything you’ve considered whacking odd to and every message you’ve sent over a public channel.
01011@monero.town 10 hours ago
I thought X was privately owned. Why is the Uncle Sam getting so upset over an asset owned by a South African?
echodot@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
It hasn’t even been blocked yet and they’re already upset about it.
astutemural@midwest.social 18 hours ago
Do it
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“I see this as an absolute win”
maam@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Good bye american firms.
manxu@piefed.social 1 day ago
If I think of all the crap Blair and Johnson did for America, justifying it with the “Special Relationship…” Or the Brexit lie that the UK would finally be able to take advantage of the “Special Relationship” once the EU was out of the way.
At least, when the Germans realized that, yes, Putin was crazy enough to give up all the money they handed over for oil and gas, they were being rational. The UK thought that a feel-good slogan would translate to economic and political advantage.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The “special relationship” has always been “we’re happy to let you abuse us.”
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Oh no!
Anyway…
vpol@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Traveling to the US is not a privilege, it’s a punishment. So I don’t see any issue here.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 1 day ago
I never want to hear the word “democracy” spoken by an American again until they’ve cleaned up their shitshow of a so-called country.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sane Americans need your country to boycott America and American tech until democracy is restored
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 1 day ago
We’re working on it.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I still value democracy, while recognizing that the US is a shitshow right now. The americans who support democracy are not in favor of what’s going on right now.
Throwing out democracy because it’s being destroyed by a fascist in america is akin to throwing out the baby with the bath water.
Democracy is the baby. It’s fragile and helpless on it’s own, and requires attention and active participation from adults in order to be nurtured and grow. Fascism is the pile of dog shit the baby got into when the adults left the room. The baby just needs a bath.
hector@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I just had someone make one of those arguments. Because the west has liberal democracies, and they do a bunch of bullshit with israel, therefore liberal democracies are the problem, and seeing them fall to fascists, the same fascists doing the most of those things justifying their criticisms, is a good thing to them.
It fails reason but what argument doesn’t nowadays, just stupid tankie shit, they just want to make cheap points not help anyone.
calliope@retrolemmy.com 1 day ago
I know this is an unpopular opinion and I expect downvotes, but you aren’t that much better.
Brexit was such a success, right? Johnson was the right choice, and you totally didn’t have a big fucking racist rally in September? Those were all from the U.S.?
This isn’t just a U.S. problem but it’s nice that the narrative makes you feel better!
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 day ago
Yeah, no, a bunch of right-wing fucks performing an ultimately democratic process is the same thing as hordes of masked, armed paramilitaries invading private homes to abduct and kill innocent people with the ruling class nodding in agreement. /s
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 1 day ago
I’m Danish. You can make up your own mind as to how that might influence my perspective right now.
hector@lemmy.today 1 day ago
The labor government is a shit show, and they’ve done more damage than the tories did already. Outlawing protest, disallowing defenses against those charges, (often like decades in prison for disfavored protests, environmental and israel and climate now but everything else soon enough,) politicians proscribing protest groups as terrorists themselves, associating any protest of that same issue as support of the proscribed group. The masterbaitorbase and age checks.
The last the most pernicious perhaps. In effect it is them surrendering their populations to tech for a cut of the feed, identifying everyone to their accounts and everything they do, and allowing palantir companies to make social scores on their half baked formulas to be secretly used against everyones.
I am forgetting some stuff too. But the UK is perhaps more fucked than the US, it’s in our face, they somehow think they are winning because it’s “their” guys in there right now.
There has to be something in the water or food making us compliant, some ubiquitous pollutant(s,) some 1984 type shit.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think you’ll be waiting for quite some time for that. Maybe a century or so.