Warning!

     Daniel Greenfield deposeth and saith:

     The Online Safety Act was sold to the British public as a way to protect children from adult content, but fighting porn proved to be a trojan horse over fighting what the regime cared about.
     Any Britons trying to read the Act probably never made it to Chapter 7 at which point the wooden horse legislation listed a ‘Committee on Disinformation and Misinformation’ and began handing out matching orders on how internet services are supposed to deal with the bogeys of unfettered speech. What does disinformation have to do with keeping kids from accessing porn?
     Recent court hearings revealed that officials had stated that the real purpose was “not primarily aimed at … the protection of children”, but regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse”. There’s only one kind of censorship the British government is really into.
     Rather than blocking pornography, the Online Safety Act was used to block videos of parliamentary debates about the Muslim sex grooming gang crisis in the UK. Not only wasn’t the Online Safety Act protecting children from being exposed to sexual content, it was being used to censor revelations about the complicity of the authorities in the sexual abuse of children.

     Yes, that’s Across the Water in our “brother nation” the United Kingdom, but it has some prospects for being replicated here.

     The American left has the same goal as the British Left: unbounded and absolute power in perpetuity. They know, as do my Gentle Readers, that there are three absolute requirements for the maintenance of freedom:

• Education,
• Communications,
• Weaponry.

     No free society can withstand the loss of any of those three,

     The Left has made deep inroads into education in the U.S. I’m sure I need not present the Bill of Particulars all over again. Weaponry is a battlefield: Washington and the state governments have done their damnedest to limit a right guaranteed in the Constitution, and though we of the “gun culture” have had some recent successes in rolling back those incursions, there’s still a long way to go. Communications, thanks to the Internet, was a bright spot for freedom lovers... but the UK’s Left is showing our domestic vermin the path to follow on that front: “safety,” especially for “the children.”

     If there’s anything we ought to have learned beyond all possibility of refutation, it’s that when a Leftist starts talking about “the children,” he’s reaching for power. “The children” is now a shibboleth, a bludgeon-phrase intended to foreclose argument on the current subject, whatever that may be. The Left has no interest in children’s well-being. How on Earth would any concern for children be consistent with “gender fluidity” ideology and “drag queen story hour?” Or allowing Muslims into the United States, come to think of it?

     But as Greenfield notes, the UK’s power-lusters have dropped the mask. Don’t allow our domestic variety to pretend to be different.