Starmer regime's attack on independent media escalates (again)

The Starmer regime is looking to force YouTube and other online media platforms to force-feed users with government-approved media and make it harder to find independent sources. This is a naked escalation in his war on information the state does not like.

YouTube is warning creators that the planned new rules will:

include mandatory changes to how content is discovered on YouTube.

Exactly what the regime is planning to promote at the cost of independent sources is made clear by the consultation page on the government website:

This includes:

• interventions to support an informed society. For example, requiring social media to make trustworthy news providers, which could include national and local news publishers and broadcasters, easily discoverable.
• measures to ensure audiences can continue to enjoy universal access to trusted and high quality television content. This includes setting out the next steps on our Future of TV Distribution Project.
• how we can support our public service media providers, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, STV and S4C, who sit at the heart of our domestic TV ecosystem, driving growth and inward investment

In other words, the ‘mainstream’ media have lied to the public for decades on everything from the miners’ strike to Israel’s genocide. But they are what the government wants to treat as ‘trusted’. So online platforms will have to ram their nonsense down the public’s gullets while hiding independent news sources that have exposed the truth about these things.

YouTube’s warning reaches the same conclusion — Starmer’s ‘mandatory prominence regime’ will make platforms privilege ‘mainstream’, often controlled and fake news and hide independent sources:

Starmer — Escalating war on knowledge

Starmer has already banned social media to try to prevent young people informing themselves about his and Israel’s crimes. He is criminalising protest that informs the public about the crimes of the US, Israel and the UK. He is ramming new legislation through parliament in a day to criminalise information from sources he doesn’t like. Finally, he is ordering tech companies to give the government backdoor access to ordinary people’s private messages. Banks are cutting off anti-genocide campaigners — and the Canary news outlet — almost certainly at the state’s prompting.

And now he wants to destroy a whole ecosystem of people gaining information — and those making a living or additional income by providing it. All to prevent the public exercising its right not to listen to the state-corporate propaganda channels spewing disinformation.

So far, presumptive new PM Andy Burnham has given no indication that he will reverse or even slow down the war on public self-education. In fact, his record suggests the opposite: in 2025 he backed the so-called ‘Online Safety Act‘ that already forms a key plank in Starmer’s war on inconvenient information — and backs the social media ban for under-16s.

Skwawkbox recommends that every reader completes the consultation to register objections to this latest Orwellian power-grab.

Featured image via the Canary