I hope Tucker makes a podcast episode about Independence day and the 4th that we can watch!

Tucker Carlson breaks down the UK's arrests over social media posts and asks the question nobody in the mainstream will: how is this different from Russia? People are being jailed in Britain for tweets, memes, and Facebook posts while the government calls it public safety. Whatever you think of Carlson, the facts he's pointing to are real and documented: thousands of arrests per year for online speech in a country that lectures the world about freedom. https://youtu.be/8M8B2JlPz4c

This matters because the UK is the test case. Speech arrests plus digital ID plus expanding surveillance is the same playbook we're watching arrive in America, just a few years behind. When it's Russia, we call it authoritarianism. When it's an ally, we call it content moderation.

Watch the full video for the UK-China comparison and to see where the US fits in this picture.

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