News · moment 11 of 17
UK Jailed for Facebook Posts and the Alex Jones Prophecy
from A Police State, Candace’s Lawsuit, & The La Quinta Promise | The Tim Dillon Show #458 · #458
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He reacts to a UK court clip sentencing a man to 20 months for an inflammatory Facebook post, argues inarticulate people shouldn't go to prison for online rants, and connects the surveillance state and speech crackdowns to old Alex Jones conspiracy predictions coming true.
- Man sentenced to 20 months in prison in the UK for a Facebook post saying he didn't want his money going to immigrants and criticizing child rape.
- Tim acknowledges the statement was inarticulately phrased but argues 20 months imprisonment is disproportionate punishment.
- People on the internet like his aunt on Percocet and white wine aren't thinking about constructive expression — that's just part of how they participate online.
- Tim worries about living in a society that imprisons people for social media posts, citing his own job of saying outrageous things behind a desk.
- Britain bans citizens from even watching certain videos under hate crimes laws, which Tim finds absurd even when acknowledging some violent content deserves restriction.
- The real danger is that military and surveillance apparatus already exists, and now authorities get to unilaterally decide what crosses the line.
- Every conspiracy prediction Alex Jones made in the late 90s and early 2000s is now actually happening: military in streets, tech surveillance, the full apparatus.
- This scenario fulfills the exact paranoid vision Tim's stoner friend with ICP tattoos used to rant about — military occupation, thought policing, total surveillance monitoring.
- The current state of government control and monitoring is literally the wet dream of every conspiracy theorist who ever lived.