"PEOPLE IN THE UK ARE NOW SELF-CENSORSING OUT OF FEAR"
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- The Free Speech Union's (FSU's) Director of Data and Impact, Tom Harris, was on GB News with Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg to the wider context in which Essex Police recently launched an investigating into a year-old X post by award-winning Telegraph journalist (and FSU member) Allison Pearson, which was initially logged as a non-crime hate incident (NCHI).
In an article for the Telegraph, Allison said that one of the officers who turned up at her home on Remembrance Sunday told her they couldn’t disclose the contents of the post, which they were treating as an NCHI.
Needless to say, we’re supporting Allison and have arranged for a solicitor to accompany her if is summoned for an interview at a police station.
As Tom says, self-censorship is on the rise in the UK.
Part of the problem is the seemingly unstoppable rise of the NCHI. They really are as Orwellian as they sound. Chillingly, NCHIs sit permanently on a person's record, and can show up on enhanced criminal records checks, which, in turn, can stop people getting jobs.
Nor do most people realise just how many have been recorded. Since the publication of the College of Policing’s NCHI guidance in 2014, we estimate that more than 250,000 have been logged by forces in England and Wales: an average of around 66 a day.
Our most recent research briefing on NCHIs is here.
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We’ve also written about the Labour Government’s intention to ramp up the recording of NCHIs here.
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The FSU has succeeded in securing the deletion of NCHI records for our members.
This Informative Guide for FSU members sets out how you can find out if your local police force has recorded an NCHI against you and what you can do to get it deleted - log in to your FSU account to take a look.
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Censorship is the first go-to means of tyranny.
Tyrany is already here.its awfull in Britain?
Country is in the toilet
True, self censorship has accelerated over recent years.
There has to be consequences for the cabinet once they are voted out. 3 years each seems to be going rate.
Orwell's real surname was Blair.
Of course we the people are self censoring since the Labour Party took power that makes us dislike the Labour Party even more.
The people will get their revenge though and Labour will be out for at least a generation, if not fully extinct. As soon as we have a sensible MP, I will be pressing for all Labour laws since Blair to be revoked, especially Starmer's DPP pension law.
I’m hoping Starmer never gets the benefit of his pension.
that is the govt plan
No, we have to speak out. Use it or lose it!
I got invited in for a "voluntary" interview for a tongue in cheek joke on UA-cam. Now I am very careful.
This is how tyranny and dictatorship works.
Joined FSU this week.
It is true.
The Khan Review in march said
"A large majority (85%) of the public believe freedom-restricting harassment currently occurs in the UK"
"76% of the public reported having restricted expressing their personal views in public, out of fear of receiving FRH(freedom-restricting harassment ) either to themselves or their loved ones. Additionally, 47% of respondents reported having witnessed others experiencing FRH which had then resulted in self-censorship."
The report I suspect is not even talking about the states part in this.
I keep expecting Knock on my Door . Once jailed , I will save a few bob , and also get a New Hip , probably within Weeks .
The weak are afraid
Those who fought in the 2 World Wars will be turning in their graves. Starmer is turning into that clown who turned into a watering can in Rumania. The people will not forget.
Brit Plebs need to learn that Hate Speech & Incitement to Violence isn't Free Speech.
Most of the complaints the police receive to start the ball rolling seem to come from a "tip-off" so only one complaint can cause them to enquire further by checking the information and then confronting the writer. Do they know who makes the report? Like Ofcom only one complaint can see something banned, and now people jailed.
Also concerned about traveling to uk, in case a post leads to arrest on landing there!?
The most appalling thing to Jacob is that the police turned up while she was in her ‘dressing gown’; could have been worse ie during a ‘dinner party’: the embarrassment.
This is not the English way
You are a people mostly made via inherited wealth and opportunities. And I don't mean the colonial past that was awesome. I mean the last two generations, you're mostly spoiled so called middle class brats and are so grotesquely soft. Deposits from mommy and daddy for homes and cars. Opportunities for jobs via family contacts, even all your offshore workers are there through connections. HR departments, politics, education etc all nepotism, students all laughing living on mommy and daddy not needing to work until almost 30 as they plagiarise their way to a piece of paper and it's a complete pantomime of being self made. You risked nothing to get what you have, you have zero idea how to risk anything to protect it. That's why you've lost already.
Posh boys talking crap
Nope. Not at all.
Hard disagree.
All above you head, don't worry Starmer will be standing behind you.
No we aren’t.