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After receiving yet another demand from the UK's speech police, Ofcom, Gab has made the decision to block the entire United Kingdom from accessing our website.
This latest email from Ofcom ordered us to disclose information about our users and operations. We know where this leads: compelled censorship and British citizens thrown in jail for "hate speech." We refuse to comply with this tyranny.
Gab is an American company with zero presence in the UK. Ofcom's demands have no legal force here. To enforce anything in the United States, they'd need to go through a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request or letters rogatory. No U.S. court is going to enforce a foreign censorship regime. The First Amendment forbids it.
Ofcom will likely try to make an example of us anyway. That's because the UK's Online Safety Act isn't about protecting children. It's about suppressing dissent.
They're welcome to try. The idea that a British regulator can pressure a U.S. company that's IP-blocking the entire UK is as farcical as it is futile. If anything, it proves our point: censorship doesn't work. It only reveals the truth about the censors.
We proudly join platforms like Bitchute in boycotting the United Kingdom. American companies should follow suit. The power of the UK's parliament ends where the First Amendment begins.
The only way to vote against the tyranny of the UK's present regime is to walk away from it, refuse to comply, and take refuge under the impervious shelter of the First Amendment.
The UK's rulers want their people kept in the dark. Let them see how long the public tolerates it as their Internet vanishes, one website at a time.
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Gab has made the decision to block the entire United Kingdom from accessing our website.
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Re: Gab has made the decision to block the entire United Kingdom from accessing our website.
This is sad news. You can archive Gab on both archive.is and archive.org, if there is a post you want to view. Wayback(archive.org) does videos, too. It might work for Bitchute.
Do they still allow VPNs in the UK?
Do they still allow VPNs in the UK?
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Re: Gab has made the decision to block the entire United Kingdom from accessing our website.
They do, and Tor as well. It will be hard and largely ineffective for them to block outbound access to IP addresses. Bitchute and Gab have blocked inbound access to avoid convictions for breaking the absurd UK "online safety" laws.
Australia is moving fast in the same direction. Telstra, Optus and Vodafone (Australia's biggest telcos) blocked Voat! (after it linked to the Christchurch massacre video)
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Re: Gab has made the decision to block the entire United Kingdom from accessing our website.
Thank’s that’s a good reminder on the archiving.shewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Tue Apr 15, 2025 2:10 pm This is sad news. You can archive Gab on both archive.is and archive.org, if there is a post you want to view. Wayback(archive.org) does videos, too. It might work for Bitchute.
Do they still allow VPNs in the UK?
Yes, we can vpn but I really resent the obligation :)
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Re: Gab has made the decision to block the entire United Kingdom from accessing our website.
Do these UK laws apply to Australia in any way? Can they cause problems?SearchVoat wrote: ↑Tue Apr 15, 2025 7:44 pm Bitchute and Gab have blocked inbound access to avoid convictions for breaking the absurd UK "online safety" laws.
Australia is moving fast in the same direction.
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Re: Gab has made the decision to block the entire United Kingdom from accessing our website.
Not so farshewhomustbeobeyed wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:39 am Do these UK laws apply to Australia in any way? Can they cause problems?