Gab restricts access to its platform for UK residents over censorship regulations
RHODA WILSON
Social media platform Gab is refusing the UK regime’s demands to hand over information about its users. “We refuse to comply with this tyranny,” a notice to UK users reads.
This follows a decision made by video platform BitChute to cut off service to UK users. BitChute, a platform also widely recognised for its commitment to free expression and open discourse, officially withdrew its services from the UK last week, citing untenable regulatory conditions under the UK’s recently enacted censorship law, the Online Safety Act.
Read more:
- BitChute Discontinues Video-Sharing Service for UK Residents Over Online Censorship Laws, Reclaim the Net, 10 April 2025
- BitChute CEO Ray Vahey Condemns UK’s Online Censorship Law as Global Threat to Internet Freedom, Reclaim the Net, 14 April 2025
Last month, the British government began aggressively extending its censorship regime beyond its borders, invoking the sweeping powers granted by the Online Safety Act 2023 to demand compliance from foreign-based platforms.
“Pro-free speech websites like Gab and Kiwi Farms are among the first targets in this international campaign to enforce the UK’s standards of ‘online safety’ – a term critics argue is being used as a smokescreen for state-sanctioned thought control,” Reclaim the Net wrote.
On 27 March 2025, Gab reported that the platform had received demands from the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, to disclose information about its users and operations.
The government of the United Kingdom, wielding the controversial Online Safety Act 2023, has issued a direct ultimatum, launching a blatant assault on the principles of open discourse that define our community. They demand that Gab submit to their stringent censorship regime, threatening exorbitant fines potentially reaching £18 million or a crippling 10% of our global revenue if we refuse to bow to their demands. Let us be clear: this is not about ensuring online “safety” as they claim; it is a thinly veiled attempt to exert absolute control over online expression, using ambiguous and undefined “hate speech” provisions as a weapon to silence dissent, criminalise unpopular opinions, and ultimately extinguish your fundamental right to speak freely and openly.
The UK Government Just Declared War on Gab, News Gab, 27 March 2025
The Gab domain has now been blocked for UK users. If you are a resident in the UK and attempt to access Gab, you will be met with the following message.
ATTENTION: UK Visitor Detected
The following notice applies specifically to users accessing from the United Kingdom.
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”—John Milton (Areopagitica, 1644, on free speech)
Access Restricted by Provider
After receiving yet another demand from the UK’s speech police, Ofcom, Gab has made the decision to block the entire United Kingdom from accessing our website.
This latest email from Ofcom ordered us to disclose information about our users and operations. We know where this leads: compelled censorship and British citizens thrown in jail for “hate speech.” We refuse to comply with this tyranny.
Gab is an American company with zero presence in the UK. Ofcom’s demands have no legal force here. To enforce anything in the United States, they’d need to go through a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request or letters rogatory. No US court is going to enforce a foreign censorship regime. The First Amendment forbids it.
Ofcom will likely try to make an example of us anyway. That’s because the UK’s Online Safety Act isn’t about protecting children. It’s about suppressing dissent.
They’re welcome to try. The idea that a British regulator can pressure a US company that’s IP-blocking the entire UK is as farcical as it is futile. If anything, it proves our point: censorship doesn’t work. It only reveals the truth about the censors.
We proudly join platforms like Bitchute in boycotting the United Kingdom. American companies should follow suit. The power of the UK’s parliament ends where the First Amendment begins.
The only way to vote against the tyranny of the UK’s present regime is to walk away from it, refuse to comply, and take refuge under the impervious shelter of the First Amendment.
The UK’s rulers want their people kept in the dark. Let them see how long the public tolerates it as their Internet vanishes, one website at a time.
This article (Gab restricts access to its platform for UK residents over censorship regulations) was created and published by The Expose and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Rhoda Wilson
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Gab Refuses To Comply With UK Censorship “Tyranny”
Gab is standing up to the UK’s attempt to install global censorship.
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RICK FINDLAY
Gab, a US-based social media platform known for its commitment to unfettered speech, has taken the step of cutting off access to users in the United Kingdom.
The decision follows an ultimatum from the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, demanding data about Gab’s users and internal operations, demands the company categorically rejects as authoritarian.
More: When One Island Demands to Muzzle the World
CEO Andrew Torba made his position clear in a post on X, where he wrote: “Our latest threatening letter from Ofcom ordered us to disclose information about our users and operations. We know where this leads: compelled censorship and British citizens are thrown in jail for ‘hate speech.’” He concluded emphatically: “We refuse to comply with this tyranny.”
Gab’s move comes in direct response to the UK’s controversial Online Safety Act, a sweeping legislative framework introduced under the guise of public safety but widely decried for its broad scope and potential to stifle dissent. The company now displays a block notice to UK-based visitors, citing both legal overreach and a principled stance in defense of free expression.
A notice shown to users in the UK includes the words of John Milton from Areopagitica — “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” It also states that after receiving “yet another demand from the UK’s speech police,” Gab chose to sever access entirely.
As a US company with no physical presence in Britain, Gab argues that Ofcom has no legal standing to compel compliance. “To enforce anything in the United States, they’d need to go through a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request or letters rogatory. No U.S. court is going to enforce a foreign censorship regime. The First Amendment forbids it,” the message reads.
Gab also points to the absurdity of Ofcom trying to punish an American firm that has already blocked UK access. The company portrays this as a clear illustration of how censorship inevitably turns into an attempt to silence rather than protect. “Censorship doesn’t work. It only reveals the truth about the censors,” the statement asserts.
This isn’t an isolated stance. Gab now joins other platforms like BitChute in restricting access from the UK, encouraging other American companies to do the same in protest. The message includes a bold call to reject what it characterizes as authoritarianism masquerading as safety regulation: “The only way to vote against the tyranny of the UK’s present regime is to walk away from it, refuse to comply, and take refuge under the impervious shelter of the First Amendment.”
This article (Gab Refuses To Comply With UK Censorship “Tyranny”) was created and published by Reclaim the Net and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Rick Findlay
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Gab has followed Bitchute and pulled out of the UK after threats by the UK government and its regulator Ofcom, which is imposing anti-free-speech tyranny under the Online Safety Act.
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