Let's talk about literally the words that you and I are talking to each other with or posting

online with. This is something that is under distress. In America, we're not really seeing this anymore.

During COVID, we saw a lot of censorship top down from the government through social media companies.

But we have kind of a reprieve right now. Hopefully this will last for generations. But over in the

UK, over in Europe, they're still fighting that battle. And it's actually getting a lot tougher there.

So in the UK, we had the Online Safety Act. That went into force in 2003. But their regulations,

their actual, the burdens of that, it's called illegal content for people posting what they call legal

content. This is a very nebulous term. That's something that really went to enforcement in March

just a couple weeks ago. The Online Safety's Act and Offcom, that's the regulator, is really

starting to look at this now. And here's some of the headlines coming out of the UK.

Hamster Forum and Local Residents' website shut down by new internet laws.

And it says dozens of small internet forums have blocked.

British users are shut down as new online safety laws come into effect, with one comparing

the new regime to a British version of China's Great Firewall.

It's not what you want to be compared to.

And what's happening here is these forums, they're run by everyday people in the UK,

and they're shutting down because they don't want to be fine because they have to basically

monitor and censor speech for the government on their forums, hamster forums, cycling

forums.

I mean, it's not, these aren't the hotbed of like political hate speech here, but people are just walking away, which actually is funneling more of these people into the big tech platforms, which is ironic.

But what does Keir Starmor have to say? He's the prime minister of the UK. He was meeting with Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance in the White House recently. Listen to what he had to say. All right. We do have, of course, a special relationship with our friends in the UK and also with

some of our European allies, but we also know that there have been infringements on free

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