UK Censors ‘Misinformation’ About Migrant Crime That Turned Out To Be 100% True
Steven Tucker
British politicians keep calling social media posts ‘disinformation,’ while issuing false statements of their own and hoping nobody notices.
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil, is no evil: that is the current left-wing UK Labour government’s attitude toward the spreading of anti-immigrant “disinformation” online. Last week, Liz Kendall, Labour’s Minister for Science, Innovation, and Shutting Everybody Up, warned of an imminent amendment to her party’s Online Safety Act censorship laws as follows:
What prompted Kendall’s move was the riots that broke out in Belfast, in the UK province of Northern Ireland, last week, after a Sudanese Muslim immigrant tried to saw the head off a partially deaf and disabled local man named Stephen Ogilvie. This was immediately after stabbing Ogilvie in the eyes, making him blind as well as deaf now, too. Reports suggest the victim will lose at least one of his eyes.
The message the UK government wanted angry citizens to absorb afterwards was quite clear: don’t riot, and please continue to celebrate diversity. By remarkable coincidence, it turned out the victim’s family shared such sentiments precisely, releasing an emergency statement via police. It warned of how “We have witnessed a lot of false information circulating” online, and pleaded with rioters to stop burning immigrants out of their homes: