Jim Jordan, a US Representative for Ohio and Chairman of the GOP Judiciary Committee, has flown into Britain to oppose the Online Safety Act and also outline the legal threats to US companies from lawfare and Ofcom. Many US companies have folded on this issue, including the social media platform Gab, which has restricted access to its British users and X which is currently hiding many tweets that could be 'harmful' to under 18s to read. Rumble (a YouTube equivalent) is currently being monitored for compliance. 

As part of his trip he has posted an email released to his judiciary committee that was sent by our government to a US tech company. 

It covers the period of the Stockport disorder. The government ministry emailing the undisclosed tech company is the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). The email dated August 2024, came one month after Labour's Peter Kyle, MP was appointed to head the department. Kyle yesterday suggested that Farage was "on the side... of Jimmy Saville" and similar predators, for opposing this Act. 

The DSIT employee asks the US firm for their help in censoring content and thanks them for their proactive response to online commentary, particularly around "anti-immigration content" and the "two-tier"  legal system narrative. It asks them whether they have considered raising the severity of this type of content in their moderation policies. 

As Jim Jordan also outlines, "One British citizen wanted to know where the government was housing asylum seekers at UK taxpayers’ expense. So, he filed a Freedom of Information request. The British government denied his request. When he posted online about the denial, the British government told platforms to censor him."

As the Congressman notes, "Just a couple days after the UK’s demand to Big Tech, London’s top police officer warned Americans that he would target them with prosecution for online posts he found offensive—no matter what country they were posted from."

This is not happening in a vacuum. A recent Telegraph article outlines how the Home Office are setting up a new elite police squad to oversee public opinion and monitor unhelpful trends. 

The National Internet Intelligence Investigations team, will work out of the National Police Coordination Centre (NPoCC) in Westminster and “maximise social media intelligence.”

"This team will provide a national capability to monitor social media intelligence and advise on its use to inform local operational decision making. This will be a dedicated function at a national level for exploiting internet intelligence to help local forces manage public safety threats and risks."

This mirrors the government's previous use of the "Counter Disinformation Unit" set up by the same ministry just before Covid.

In 2019, the DCMS brought together 21 organisations, including Google search, social media giants, Ofcom, 'fact' checking organisations etc. to address "mis and dis-information". Anyone who used social media during Covid will have experienced their chilling effects. Search terms led people to where the government wanted them to go and if an unhelpful narrative went viral a "Rapid Response Unit" went into effect to quash it. They covered everything from Covid to people questioning whether the Syrians were to blame for chemical weapons attack, back in 2018, as the Theresa May's government swung into military attacks on Syria.

The DCMS was initially responsible for these issues (internet censorship, the OSA etc) but it later spun out to DSIT instead. Probably because it was hard to justify their funding some of the worst decolonisation and general Woke type propaganda in the arts and culture industry, whilst also being responsible for censoring political opponents. They also funded 'fact' check organisations to target content, including paying £1.6 million to Logically, which has targeted us before on various occasions. 

Preceding this there was also the 77th Brigade, created in 2015 as a UK military organisation tasked with "psychological warfare" one of whose members was in charge of European 'editorial' content at Twitter.  There is also the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group at GCHQ. 

There is also the government's Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) commonly referred to as the 'nudge unit' set up to influence public behaviour and help drive desired policy outcomes under David Cameron. Finally, there is a whole host of outsourced private entities that  the state funds to gather intelligence on dissidents and formulate responses by scraping platforms like X or Telegram for data and analysing it. Then there is off the shelf software used by 'Antifa' type entities (ISD, HnH etc) to do similar.

In short the public are surrounded by a sea of hidden state-aligned actors who wish to shape, direct and penalise the political opinions of the general populace.

The curiosity here is that for once, the USA, the global hegemon appears to be out of step with the rest of the western world on this issue. In the EU there is the UK OSA equivalent, the Digital Services Act, in Australia there is the Online Safety Act (2021), in Canada the Online Harms Bill, in NZ, the Harmful Digital Communications Act (2015) similar to our Malicious Communications Act. One explanation is that these internet giants are almost all based in the US and have leverage there, but this does not seem in itself a sufficient reason. 

Here is a GBNews interview with the congressman

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— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) July 30, 2025