US builds online “free speech” portal for UK citizens to bypass Labour’s internet restrictions. Since returning to office, the Trump administration has raised concerns about the state of free speech in the UK. A primary focus has been the Online Safety Act — domestic legislation ostensibly designed to protect children from online harms, but which now risks impacting the First Amendment rights of US citizens. Trump’s free speech tsar, Sarah Rogers, has taken a hard line against what she last month described as the government’s “telegraphed authoritarian intentions”. In recent weeks, she has called on UK citizens prosecuted for social media posts to seek asylum in the US, and said that “nothing is off the table” when it comes to opening up “authoritarian closed societies” that censor the internet. This news comes in the same week that reports emerged suggesting that, should Hamit Coskun lose his blasphemy case, the Trump administration would consider granting him political asylum. Read more below 👇