Imagine my surprise when I woke up to an email from X this morning, about my X account. According to this email, a post of mine was flagged for 'illegal or harmful speech' and subsequently that post was hidden from readers in the UK.
Screw you, EU. pic.twitter.com/q8uEaYXVq4
— Amy Curtis 🇮🇱 (@RantyAmyCurtis) September 12, 2024
Here's the post in question:
While gangs of immigrants groom and rape young girls. https://t.co/oYdVsEeHU8
— Amy Curtis 🇮🇱 (@RantyAmyCurtis) September 4, 2024
What is 'illegal or harmful' about my post?
The fact that it's the truth. That's what.
Over the past month, we've seen U.K. authorities crack down on British citizens for the 'crime' of speaking out against unfettered immigration to the nation, and the cultural conflicts such unfettered immigration causes. They even threatened to extradite Americans who violate those laws. That's adorable.
Author, speaker, and intellectual Douglas K. Murray has written books on the issue, something that prompted a British journalist to call for an 'investigation'. Unlike me, he's a British citizen and subject to their asinine laws concerning speech. But we have something in common: things we've said have been classified as 'hate speech' according to certain authorities.
Simply because we said something those authorities don't like. In Murray's case, it was accurately predicting the backlash caused by the government allowing massive numbers of immigrants enter the country without any expectation of assimilation or respect for British law or culture.
In my case, I pointed out the fact the U.K. -- which has no problem jailing grannies for Facebook posts -- turned a blind eye to gangs of groomers and rapists in Rotherham. This story is now a decade old, but it prompted outrage in everyone except the British authorities with the power to do something about it. In February of this year, Al-Jazeera (hardly a Right-wing source of news) wrote about the failures of the system:
In August 2014, a groundbreaking report by former senior social worker Alexis Jay revealed that an estimated 1,400 children had been sexually abused in the town from 1997 to 2013, predominantly by Pakistani-British men. It revealed that council staff and others knew of the abuse but turned a blind eye to what was happening and refused to identify the perpetrators in part for fear of being branded racist.
The report laid bare the disastrous consequences of failing to prevent predatory men – of whatever racial background, for whatever reason – from accessing vulnerable victims.
In response to the report’s damning revelations, so many in positions of power looked straight into the cameras and said “lessons will be learned.”
Tragically, however, what happened in Rotherham was not an anomaly.
Did you catch that? For over a decade, some 1,400 children were sexually abused in Rotherham and nothing was done because the perpetrators were Pakistani, and punishing them would be 'racist.'
Even Boy George, of the band Culture Club, asked why there wasn't more political outcry over it back in 2014. As many X users pointed out: political correctness. The authorities have their priorities, and gangs of groomers and rapists rank very, very low on that list.
It is that rabid political correctness that drives U.K. authorities to run a blatantly two-tiered justice system. I wrote about that here, a little over a month ago. In summation, in the U.K. you can be a pedophile, a rapist, and arrested for sexual assault and the U.K. courts will let you walk free. But if you use emojis the court deems 'incite racial violence', you'll go to prison for months. Shout at police, and you're looking at years.
I did appeal that decision:
I appealed this morning; with links from Al-Jazeera backing my claim, and it was denied.
— Amy Curtis 🇮🇱 (@RantyAmyCurtis) September 12, 2024
Which means no human looked at this, @elonmusk.
I don’t give a s**t. The EU laws re: free speech suck and they can kiss my a**.
I’ll say what I want. https://t.co/b8jRu5MBLO
Note the timestamps on the email that says my appeal was received and the screenshot of the denial. Three minutes.
Which means no real, live human being took a look at my post, or my link (the aforementioned Al-Jazeera link). An algorithm made that decision. This is an issue Elon Musk needs to address. A real, thinking human being needs to look at appeals. But I digress.
My account is still in good standing. The laws of the U.K. do not apply to me as a U.S. citizen.
It's unfortunate that U.K. readers will not be reminded how the authorities in Rotherham utterly failed 1,400 children in 2014, lest they be branded as 'racists' for enforcing U.K. law and cultural values that say the rape and sexual assault of children is wrong.
That's precisely why my post was flagged and censored: I reminded X users of how their government failed them. I reminded them that -- a decade later -- the same government keeps importing people from cultures that are incompatible with the British way of life.
Rather than address the very real problem that stems from such unfettered immigration and cultural clashes, the U.K. authorities (and their American sympathizers) do what's easy: they silence those who dare to speak out.
It's why they're threatening British citizens with jail for the 'crime' of merely looking at a protest, and why I'm getting scolding emails about how I commited the 'crime' of illegal speech, under EU law.
Throughout the entirety of human history, however, those who censored free speech were the bad guys. Invariably. They are the tyrants, both petty and powerful.
And that's why I consider this a badge of honor. One I proudly wear, and one that will not coerce me into silence.
