4 days Ago By Alexandra Bullard
Daily Express columnist Carole Malone shut down a fellow guest on Jeremy Vine's programme on Channel 5 over "free speech". The GB News regular appeared on the daytime show to debate whether free speech is under siege in America or the UK. Carole ranted, "In this country, your social media gets you thrown in jail!", referring to recent examples of UK citizens being jailed for up to 15 months for Facebook posts.
For example, a 55-year-old woman from Cheshire was arrested and held in custody for 36 hours last year for wrongly identifying the Southport attacker as a Muslim asylum seeker on X. It comes after Prime Minister Keir Starmer was warned to embrace Donald Trump 's agenda and repeal hate speech laws to protect LGBT+ people, or potentially lose the Trump trade deal. On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance said there was a good chance of a "great" UK-US trade deal, citing Trump's "love" for Britain and the "cultural affinity" between the two nations.
However, earlier this year, Vance denounced the UK as a hotbed of anti-Christian prejudice and endemic censorship. In February during a speech, he told listeners that Europe’s greatest threat comes not from Russia or China, but “from within”. He then went on to say that “infringements on free speech that .
.. affect American technology companies and, by extension, American citizens”, which was a direct attack on the Online Safety Act, which holds social media websites and search engines responsible for "harmful content.
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