Big Brother is Watching

For John, BLUF:  Yes, we wish to be safe, but we also believe we should be safe in our ideas.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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U.K. Anti-Terrorism Efforts Are Terrifying to Anybody Who Favors Free Speech

Here is the sub-headline:

Clicking the “wrong” link can get you interrogated by the authorities—and the situation may soon get worse.

From Reason, by Writer J.D. Tuccille, 20 November 2018.

Here is the lede:

When you have an overreaching government "anti-terrorism" program tasked with countering violent ideological messages, anything that rubs officialdom the wrong way starts looking like extremist propaganda, ripe for intervention.  That includes, it turns out, a standard-issue lefty reading-assignment at England's University of Reading:  Cautious about how the message might be perceived, school officials warned students reading Our Morals:  The Ethics of Revolution "not to access it on personal devices, to read it only in a secure setting, and not to leave it lying around where it might be spotted" so as to avoid the attention of the "Prevent" program.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff