Britain’s Pending “Online Safety Bill” Turns Free Speech Into a Felony

October 22, 2023

by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts PaulCraigRoberts.org

“We are used to Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World being held up as a mirror to our current predicament. But there is a third novel in Britain’s dystopian trilogy. In Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, a politician visits a jail to look for a subject for the Lodovico treatment which is designed to cure the offender of the impulse to violence. The reason the minister wants prisoners released safely back into society, and something of the sort is already happening in the UK, speaks to us: ‘Soon we may be needing all our prison space for political prisoners,’” like Julian Assange, Donald Trump, Sidney Powell, and “January 6 insurrectionists. https://www.unz.com/article/britains-worst-amendment-the-online-safety-bill/