1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

When did you last visit China and the UK?

2024 and 2025. However, my personal experience (just like yours) is irrelevant as I will never make any open political comment in China, and certainly not on Chinese SM or messaging system.

Just now, candide said:

2024 and 2025. However, my personal experience (just like yours) is irrelevant as I will never make any open political comment in China, and certainly not on Chinese SM or messaging system.

Yes, I don't make open political comments in the UK either.

8 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Yes, I don't make open political comments in the UK either.

 

Very understandable. You must feel downright persecuted!😂

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

He didnt cancel anything LOL. Tell us how LOL

You live in a different universe 

1 hour ago, bubblegum said:

That's why your dictator cancelled 60 min.

Thought he was a king?

25 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

You live in a different universe 

Yeah. Reality.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Nothing at all where I was, small town ZhangJiaJie.

Would point out the UK police arrested 12,000 people last year for social media posts.

Usually with early morning raids by 2-6 police.

They also intend to stop jury trials.

https://winslowlawyers.com/uk-man-arrested-for-malicious-communications/

 

How many Chinese have been disappeared because of social media posts?

 

...crickets.

 

I lived and worked in the People's Republic for over eight years.

 

You are clueless.

1 hour ago, jts-khorat said:

Close the door, take the pain of breaking off all trade and wait three years. My guess is, the US economy will have imploded by then, the US will break up into small statelets within the next decade, so finally good riddance.

No need to waste energy on closing the door.

 

The occupier of the white house and his(!) admin do that by themselfs.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Yes, I don't make open political comments in the UK either.

 

Having admitted to your last being there in 2009, any political comments would be more irrelevant than they are now.

 

"...but I cycled around a small town in China quite a bit...."

26 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

 

Having admitted to your last being there in 2009, any political comments would be more irrelevant than they are now.

 

"...but I cycled around a small town in China quite a bit...."

I was last in the UK in 2016, think your comprehension skills could be improved.

52 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I was last in the UK in 2016, think your comprehension skills could be improved.

 

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

The UK was well on its way to becoming a police state back in 2009 when I left.

 

What's to comprehend?

 

You wouldn't recognise a police state if it bit your arse, despite "...I cycled around a small town in China quite a bit...."

 

Never mind, this is all off topic.

 

 

5 hours ago, BritManToo said:

When did you last visit China and the UK?

If I was offered an all expense paid vacation to either the UK or China?  I'd pick China every time.  The UK has become what the "liberal democrats" in the UK claim that China and Russia are.
I agree with BritManToo.  You'll find more freedom and opportunity in China than you will in the Neo-Totalitarian third-world of the United Kingdom.  

Inflammatory post removed 

 

@BritManToo

17 hours ago, jts-khorat said:

 

Why not simply declaring all US government officials persona non grata in the US and finally be rid of all of them?

 

As one of the US mouthpieces above said: the US is not sharing the European ideals of free speech and freedom in general, they are proto-fascist entity now (while the US is not even able to get dictatorship right, due to their dementia-ridden system of presidency). Why they are not ashamed is anybodies guess.

 

Close the door, take the pain of breaking off all trade and wait three years. My guess is, the US economy will have imploded by then, the US will break up into small statelets within the next decade, so finally good riddance.

We should have left you guys to the Russians

19 hours ago, candide said:

It seems that the Australian governent regrets there were no such tough regulations in Australia...

 

Australian PM announces crackdown on hate speech after Bondi shooting

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgmneem1e89o

Great now they can arrest Jews for calling out Muslims terrorists.

On 12/24/2025 at 8:42 PM, TedG said:

The EU is far ahead of the USA in the area of censorship.   

By EU, I presume you mean the 27 countries that are members of the economic union, commonly referred to as EU, and omit the other 14 sovereign states that are part of Europe.

 

Just because of the uneducated *****, the EU has been treated as a political entity, which it is not. It does not dictate the foreign policy, and has no political or legislative influence over any of the 44 European states.

A troll post with a trolling meme has been removed.

On 12/24/2025 at 5:24 PM, Yagoda said:

You have no right to come into our country to spew, you can spew from afar. You can even spew on Forums that anyone can access, you just arent going to try to shut others up or be some scumbag and spew from the States.

Spot on ,Can you imagine , I had no idea! Sounds like the farleft anarchist /communist/socialists we've been fighting since 2015. The last thing we need is more farleft SJW radical activists who hate our style of free speech coming here to lobby Big Tech into silencing voices they disagree with.

 

"In a statement, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the targets of the newly announced sanctions as "radical activists" who had worked to "coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints."

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-sanctions-former-eu-commissioner-thierry-breton-for-curbing-online-hate-speech/

Those pesky European countries top all the lists for press freedom and democracy, but at least the US of A kills it in the category of school shootings!

Do note that this index is for 2024, with the US coming in at # 28. Imagine where the US will be placed after this year's full on attack on American democracy!

 

From The Economist Intelligence Unit.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-eiu

 

 

 

 

 

On 12/26/2025 at 1:40 PM, SpaceKadet said:

By EU, I presume you mean the 27 countries that are members of the economic union, commonly referred to as EU, and omit the other 14 sovereign states that are part of Europe.

 

Just because of the uneducated *****, the EU has been treated as a political entity, which it is not. It does not dictate the foreign policy, and has no political or legislative influence over any of the 44 European states.

I am using "Septic", as this is a documented word in London Cockney, present in any online dictionary.

 

I am avoiding using "Americans", as to not offend the other 30+ countries of the Americas (the continent).

I fully agree with this sentiment. The more you think about it, the more it becomes obvious who's calling the shots in Washington.

 

 

 

 

 

It appears censorship is all fun and games, until its themselves on the receiving end🤣

33 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

It appears censorship is all fun and games, until its themselves on the receiving end🤣

 

You're right. That came as a shock to many Americans.