Infographic: How the West's Censorship Infrastructure was Built

Two Academics, A Billionaire and Millions Silenced

Based upon research by Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻 on X.

In 2016, two British academics began writing blog posts about how to regulate social media. Eight years later, their ideas had become the foundation of legislation in the UK, influenced the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), and helped spawn a global network of advocacy groups — many funded by the same billionaire philanthropies — now pushing to define what is acceptable online speech worldwide.

What follows is graphic representation of the timeline, the money, and the network of malevolent actors behind the UK’s Online Safety Act, and what it means for the future of free expression not just in Britain but here in the U.S.

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The Timeline

The UK’s Online Safety Act did not appear overnight. It was the product of a methodical, decade-long campaign that began with blog posts and policy papers from two well-connected individuals — William Perrin and Professor Lorna Woods — operating through the Carnegie UK Trust. Their “duty of care” concept, first articulated in 2018, moved with remarkable speed through government white papers, public consultations, a draft bill, and years of parliamentary debate before receiving Royal Assent in October 2023. The EU’s Digital Services Act tracked a strikingly similar path on a parallel timeline, raising questions about coordinated influence. By 2026, enforcement is fully underway, with Ofcom empowered to fine platforms up to 10% of global revenue for non-compliance.

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The Network

The Online Safety Act isn’t just the work of legislators responding to public demand. It was driven by a tight network of advocacy groups, policy “entrepreneurs”, and “philanthropists” with overlapping memberships, shared funding sources, and Leftist/Marxist political interests. At the center sits the Carnegie UK Trust, which worked with roughly 50 partners to spawn the “Online Safety Act Network” after its formal work ended. Funding flowed primarily from Pierre Omidyar’s Luminate and Reset organizations — entities with known ties to the Soros Democracy Alliance and to former officials in the Obama and Clinton State Departments. The same network extends internationally through coalitions like GAADHE, whose roughly 70 member organizations include American groups like Media Matters, creating a transatlantic infrastructure designed to pressure technology platforms to censor speech they don’t like.

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Free Speech Under Siege

For those who love America and its First Amendment, the UK’s Online Safety Act represents a new and profound evil: a legal framework that empowers government regulators to define what is acceptable speech online — backed by enormous financial penalties.

The categories of speech at risk extend well beyond illegal content like terrorism or child exploitation. They encompass “legal but harmful” expression — a deliberately vague category Europe has already used to target populists, advocates of re-migration, and others who value Western Civilization.

The network behind this legislation has documented patterns of targeting populist political movements, labeling them as “extremist” or “hateful.” And because major tech platforms like X operate globally, compliance with UK and EU speech codes effectively exports their restrictions to Americans.

I completely reject this censorship regime that circumvents the First Amendment not through U.S. law, but through foreign regulators and Democrat operators who hate America.

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