FEE’s Brad Polumbo writes, “If you ever need a reminder of how important freedom of speech is, all you need to do is look across the pond. The United Kingdom, which doesn’t have a First Amendment, has slowly seen citizens’ free speech rights eroded—and now may soon start imprisoning people for being trolls on the internet.

This blatant attempt at the censorship of online speech is deeply concerning. https://t.co/aCG0OevHhP

— FEE (@feeonline) November 4, 2021

At question is pending legislation called the ‘Online Safety Bill,’ which ostensibly punishes social media companies that allow harassment. Yet it may be expanded to include new criminal penalties for individuals who engage in mean speech online.

‘Trolls could face two years in prison for sending messages or posting content that causes psychological harm under legislation targeting online hate,’ the Times of London reports.”

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Forbes’ Adam Andrzejewski writes, “President Joe Biden didn’t just announce a Covid-19 vaccine mandate on companies employing 100 or more people, he plans to enforce it.

On Saturday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s House quietly tucked an enforcement mechanism into their $3.5 trillion ‘reconciliation’ bill, passed it out of the Budget Committee, and sent it to the House floor.

The Democrats outrageous spending bill creates a $700,000 fine for businesses that violate Biden’s vaccine mandate. Outrageous. https://t.co/fRraEv3Jts

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) September 29, 2021

Buried on page 168 of the House Democrats’ 2,465-page mega bill is a tenfold increase in fines for employers that ‘willfully,’ ‘repeatedly,’ or even seriously violate a section of labor law that deals with hazards, death, or serious physical harm to their employees.

The increased fines on employers could run as high as $70,000 for serious infractions, and $700,000 for willful or repeated violations—almost three-quarters of a million dollars for each fine. If enacted into law, vax enforcement could bankrupt non-compliant companies even more quickly than the $14,000 OSHA fine anticipated under Biden’s announced mandate.”

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