Jess Phillips Accuses Farage of Siding With Savile Again – Guido Fawkes

Jess Phillips Accuses Farage of Siding With Savile Again

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Downing Street has clearly decided to keep the Farage Savile row going for as long as they can. Jess Phillips is the latest Labour minister to take up the mantle this morning…

Writing in the Times the Home Office minister said of the Online Safety Act:

“Farage said it’s the biggest threat to freedom of speech in our lifetimes. My colleague Peter Kyle said he was siding with modern-day Jimmy Saviles preying on children online.”

She brought up the case of internet paedophile Alexander McCartney who posed as a teenager to abuse and blackmail children: “That’s why the Online Safety Act exists — to try to provide that basic minimum of protection and make it harder for paedophiles to prey on children at will. And we can’t afford to wait.” That’s why Commons speeches and political news stories should be blocked from the internet…

Phillips claimed Farage doesn’t support child safety because it generates “no clicks for his monetised social media accounts. But I do… I worry about what it means now and what it will mean when boys reared on a diet of ultraviolent online child abuse are adult men having children of their own. I can’t ignore that, neither can Peter Kyle and, most importantly, nor can millions of parents across the country.” The tech-savvy kids all have VPNs and have entered into an even less regulated internet than it was before. Labour has so far resorted to begging people not to use the privacy software – it may not be long before it goes further…