Americans just finished dismantling the Biden Administration's domestic censorship regime.
Now foreign governments are trying to finish what he started.
And a Trump official just blew up the UK's plot to censor Americans from abroad.
Foreign Censors Pick Up Where Biden Left Off
The Trump Administration spent months tearing down Biden's censorship-industrial complex.
Federal agencies colluded with Big Tech to silence conservatives.
The Global Engagement Center funding left-wing "fact-checkers" to flag American speech for removal.
FBI agents showing up at people's doors over Facebook posts.
Government bureaucrats treating the First Amendment like a suggestion.
President Trump systematically dismantled it all.
But just as Americans reclaimed their free speech rights at home, foreign governments saw an opening.
Sarah Rogers doesn't mince words when foreign governments threaten Americans' free speech.
The Trump Administration's Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy traveled to London lwith a message British regulators won't forget.
"It's misguided and unfortunate to apply that law in Britain," Rogers told GB News about the UK's Online Safety Act. "But applying that law extraterritorially — which means applying it to speech that has nothing to do with Britain, does not occur in Britain, is on American platforms, by American users, on American political issues, purporting to censor Americans in America — is a dealbreaker."¹
Rogers made clear the UK's speech police, Ofcom, crossed a line when they started threatening American websites with fines and criminal penalties.
And she came armed with legislative options that would strip foreign censors of their usual legal protections.
The GRANITE Act — Guaranteeing Rights Against Novel International Tyranny & Extortion — is already circulating in Wyoming's state legislature.
UK Regulators Went After Wrong American Companies
Ofcom picked a fight with 4chan and Kiwi Farms thinking nobody would notice.
The UK telecommunications regulator slapped 4chan with a £20,000 fine in October 2025 for refusing to comply with "information requests" about illegal content.²
Ofcom threatened daily penalties of £100 if 4chan didn't hand over risk assessments and revenue data.
Both American forums operate from the United States with no UK offices, staff, or equipment.
Their lawyer shredded the fine notice and used it as hamster bedding.
"American citizens do not surrender our constitutional rights just because Ofcom sends us an email," said Preston Byrne, the free speech attorney representing both platforms.³
The websites filed a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C. accusing Ofcom of violating the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments.
Their complaint reminds British bureaucrats of something they forgot: "That issue was settled, decisively, 243 years ago in a war that the UK's armies lost and are not in any position to relitigate."⁴
British Censorship Law Targets The Entire Internet
The Online Safety Act started as protection for children from pornography and abuse.
Then mission creep turned it into a weapon against dissent.
Britain already arrests comedians for jokes and investigates priests for praying silently in public.
Labour Party MP Barry Gardiner admitted the law targets "sentiments contrary to immigration" — political speech British authorities don't like.⁵
The censorship playbook is identical to what Biden tried here.
Target "misinformation."
Protect "vulnerable groups."
Keep everyone "safe."
Then define those terms to mean whatever speech the regime wants silenced.
The Act forces websites accessible to UK users to verify ages, moderate content, and remove anything British regulators deem "harmful."
This is the same UK where police arrested people for silent prayer outside abortion clinics and interrogated a woman for calling someone the wrong pronoun online.
Now they want to export that insanity to America.
Several American websites responded by blocking UK internet addresses entirely.
File-sharing services Krakenfiles, Nippydrive, Nippyshare, and Nippyspace all geoblocked British users after Ofcom came knocking.⁶
That tells you everything about how the UK's "safety" law actually works.
It makes the internet less accessible to Brits while accomplishing nothing.
Trump Administration Won't Tolerate Speech Police — Foreign or Domestic
Rogers spelled out exactly what happens if foreign regulators keep threatening American companies.
The State Department is considering using the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to sanction foreign censors.
That means freezing assets, blocking transactions, and banning travel to the United States.
The same tool America uses against human rights abusers worldwide now gets pointed at foreign speech police.⁷
Rogers also warned about the UK's plan to eliminate jury trials in certain speech cases.
British bureaucrats learned from Biden that juries won't convict people for speech.
So they want judges trained to enforce every absurdity in the rulebook instead.
"Without juries, you won't have access to jury nullification of your absurd censorship laws," Rogers said.⁸
Foreign governments watched Biden weaponize federal agencies against conservative speech for four years.
Now they're trying the same playbook from overseas.
They figured Trump can't stop what happens in London or Brussels.
They're about to learn otherwise.
Because once one country successfully censors American platforms, every authoritarian regime on Earth will try the same thing.
China watching. Iran watching. The EU already fining X hundreds of millions for refusing to censor.
Stop the UK now or fight this battle in fifty countries.
As Rogers put it, British censorship "imposes on the whole world, not just Britain, and imposes on adults, not just kids."⁹
The UK thought it could pick up where Biden left off by attacking from overseas.
British regulators just learned that exporting tyranny to American soil is a dealbreaker.
Foreign or domestic, the Trump Administration will crush any threat to Americans' free speech.
¹ Lauren Smith, "The UK's Online Safety Act Will Export British Tyranny," The American Conservative, December 20, 2025.
² The Register, "Ofcom fines 4chan £20K for Online Safety Act failings," October 13, 2025.
³ Matthew Gault, "4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law," 404 Media, August 27, 2025.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ Smith, The American Conservative.
⁶ Ofcom, "Ofcom issues update on Online Safety Act investigations," October 13, 2025.
⁷ Eric Schmitt, Letter to Sarah Rogers, United States Senate, December 18, 2025.
⁸ Reclaim The Net, "US Under Secretary Warns Britain That the First Amendment Isn't Negotiable," December 2025.
⁹ Ibid.
