House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan is sounding the alarm about a dangerous free speech crackdown happening across the pond. The Ohio Republican appeared on Hannity to warn Americans about what he calls an authoritarian nightmare unfolding in Britain and the European Union. Jordan is fighting back against foreign governments trying to silence American voices online.
British politician Nigel Farage testified before Jordan’s committee about the awful situation in his home country. Farage told lawmakers that Britain has become a police state where people get arrested for social media posts. Armed police are now showing up at airports to arrest people for tweets they don’t like. This is what happens when the government becomes the thought police.
The most shocking case involves a comedy writer who got arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport by five armed officers. His crime was posting tweets months earlier while he was in Arizona. The man isn’t even British but Irish, showing that no one is safe from this madness. Any American could face the same treatment just for exercising their First Amendment rights.
Jordan has been fighting the European Union’s Digital Services Act, which is nothing more than a censorship weapon. The EU tried to intimidate Elon Musk before his interview with President Trump, demanding he follow their speech rules. This foreign interference in American free speech cannot be tolerated by patriotic Americans.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government has turned Britain into an authoritarian nightmare. People are being prosecuted for social media posts that hurt someone’s feelings. The British government thinks it can decide what thoughts are acceptable and what aren’t. This is exactly what our Founding Fathers warned us about.
The threat isn’t just happening overseas but could spread to America through big tech censorship. Social media companies are already working with foreign governments to silence conservative voices. They want to impose European-style speech codes on freedom-loving Americans. We must fight this before it’s too late.
Jordan warns that this crackdown will damage trade and threaten liberty across the Western world. When governments can arrest people for their opinions, democracy dies. The British people are losing their most basic human right to speak their minds. America must lead the fight to restore freedom of speech.
This is why we need strong conservative leaders like Jim Jordan standing guard over our constitutional rights. While liberals want to copy Europe’s authoritarian playbook, patriots are fighting to keep America free. The choice is clear: we either defend free speech now or lose it forever like our British cousins.
