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Trump Halts Major $41 Billion Tech Deal with UK Government Over Censorship Laws

The vision of a sweeping U.S.–U.K. technology partnership has now stalled after President Donald Trump formally paused the high-profile tech agreement amid growing concerns that the United Kingdom’s new Online Safety Act gives British regulators unprecedented power to police the speech of American companies and AI systems.

The suspension marks a significant setback for what had been promoted as a landmark economic and research partnership between Silicon Valley and London.

According to negotiators, the turning point came as U.S. officials concluded that Britain intended to apply its speech-restriction regime to American platforms and AI models operating outside the U.K.

UK Rolls Out Orwellian ‘Toxic Ideas’ Crackdown on Schoolboys

For years, British authorities looked the other way as grooming gangs preyed on vulnerable girls, often refusing to intervene for fear of appearing “racist.”

Now the government has unveiled a sweeping new strategy that reframes the country’s cultural crisis as a problem not of foreign-led rape networks, but of British boys supposedly becoming “radicalized” into “misogyny” and “toxic ideas.”

Under the plan, schools will be turned into front-line surveillance hubs tasked with monitoring boys for “signs of misogyny,” sending those flagged as “high risk” into behavior-reeducation programs.

Not going to work. Biology always trumps ideology.

The UK’s socialist Labour Party-controlled government has rejected calls from the British public to roll back its Orwelian censorship laws, instead doubling down on digital restrictions even as backlash intensifies at home and abroad.

Britain’s globalist government rejected widespread public demands to roll back its sweeping Online Safety Act (OSA).

More than 160,000 Britons signed a petition urging Parliament to repeal the Act, a law critics warn has rapidly evolved from a child-protection measure into one of the most aggressive censorship systems in the democratic world.

Instead of reconsidering, MPs used the debate to push for even stricter controls on VPNs, age-verification tools, encrypted messaging platforms, and AI chatbots.

The debate in a sparsely attended Westminster Hall session revealed a stark divide as the public demands digital freedom, and the government presses for deeper surveillance and expanded authority.

Britain needs a First Amendment, and a Second Amendment to protest the First.

Patrick says

Britain needs a First Amendment, and a Second Amendment to protest the First.

It needs to completely fail and burn down showing the rest of the west to wake up or your next.

Yes, and I think a major goal of the Ukraine war was to get as many Slavic men as possible to kill each other.

A senior fire officer has become the latest victim of the UK government’s speech policing after he was forced out of his job for “sexist behavior” for failing to discipline his colleagues for using the “offensive” term “fireman.”

Simon Bailey, a 27-year veteran of the Avon and Somerset Fire Service who had previously been commended for bravery, was disciplined for allowing what investigators called a “longstanding campaign” of “sexism” in his station.

Bailey has just lost his case after suing his former employer for unfair dismissal.

The hero fireman received a written warning in July 2023 after a tribunal found he presided over an “openly sexist” workplace.

He was accused of allowing “sexist behavior” for failing to challenge staff who used the term “fireman” instead of “firefighter.”

The disciplinary action followed complaints in 2021 from firewoman Sasha Acheson, a former England Women’s rugby player.