Top 20 Outrages from the EU's Censorship Regime

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I’ve written about the worrisome state of the EU before. Its suicidal energy policies. Its cultural implosion. Its censorship regime in conjunction with tech and media conglomerates.

The censorship issue is one that is particularly galling.

Average citizens in the EU are subject to imprisonment for the high crime of offending someone. It’s truly insane.

Here are 20 of the most egregious attacks on free speech by the totalitarian nutjobs running the EU.

1. UK: Tommy Robinson’s 18-Month Sentence for Contempt (2025)

Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) was sentenced to 18 months in prison for contempt of court after repeating allegations against a Syrian refugee in online videos, part of an effort to expose grooming scandals. Released in May 2025, he faced immediate platform bans and organized the massive “Unite the Kingdom” rally in September 2025 to protest speech curbs. Britain has weaponized contempt laws to silence anti-establishment voices on immigration, turning facts into felonies.

2. UK: Graham Linehan Detained at Heathrow for American Tweets (2025)

Comedian and gender-critical activist Graham Linehan was detained by five armed police officers at Heathrow Airport in September 2025 upon arrival from the US, questioned for hours over “transphobic” tweets posted from Arizona under the Online Safety Act’s hate speech provisions—prompting national backlash and PM Starmer’s rare rebuke of police overreach.

3. Netherlands: Geert Wilders’ Criminal Record for Rally Chant (2016-2025)

Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right PVV party, faced ongoing fallout from his 2016 conviction (upheld in appeals through 2023) for “group insult” after leading a rally chant of “Fewer Moroccans,” resulting in a criminal record that hampers his political career; in 2024–2025, it fueled EU-wide scrutiny of his anti-Islam posts under DSA guidelines.

4. UK: Arrested for Quoting Scripture (2018)

Street preacher Oluwole Ilesanmi was convicted and fined £900 for quoting Bible

verses deemed “offensive” to homosexuals under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act. Britain—the homeland of tolerance—now criminalizes religious expression under “hate” pretexts, state approval now required for proselytizing, obliterating the foundational principle that government has no legitimate role policing spiritual truth.

5. Netherlands: Cartoonists Prosecuted for Mocking Extremism (2023)

Cartoonist Yoshua Bengio faced prosecution threats for satirical drawings criticizing Islamic extremism, forcing self-censorship. Artistic liberty—a pillar of Enlightenment humanism—is sacrificed on the altar of religious sensitivity, equating satire with incitement in grotesquely Orwellian fashion.

6. Sweden: 10 Months in Prison for Rap Lyrics (2022)

Rapper Jeff Coady received a 10-month sentence for lyrics criticizing Somali immigrants under hate speech statutes. Sweden jails poetic expression, not threats or violence, prioritizing group sensitivities over individual liberty and trampling Kant’s emphasis on rational autonomy—citizens reduced to wards of the state, protected from uncomfortable words.

7. Belgium: €8,000 Fine for Criticizing Multiculturalism (2024)

Politician Tom Van Grieken was fined €8,000 for tweeting that multiculturalism is a “failed experiment,” ruled as incitement to hatred. Belgium now punishes policy critique as “hate,” stifling the democratic discourse essential to Rousseau’s social contract through fear of financial reprisal—turning elections into theater when the boundaries of debate are drawn by prosecutors.

8. Austria: Fined for Discussing Demographics (2018)

Identitarian activist Martin Sellner was fined €4,000 for a video discussing “remigration” of non-Europeans. Austria criminalizes demographic discussion absent any call to violence, attacking David Hume’s empirical inquiry into societal changes—topics of legitimate social science now declared thoughtcrimes by judicial fiat.

9. Denmark: Author Fined for Questioning Integration (2021)

Author Morten Messerschmidt was fined for blog posts questioning integration policy failures under Denmark’s “ghetto laws.” Suppressing factual reporting on policy outcomes violates Karl Popper’s principle of falsifiability in public debate—if we cannot question whether policies work, democracy becomes kabuki theater, all performance and no substance.

10. Ireland: Up to 5 Years for “Hateful” Posts (2023)

Ireland’s Criminal Justice Bill proposes five-year prison terms for “hateful” online posts, already prompting preemptive deletion of gender-critical feminist content. By broadening “hate” to encompass opinion itself, Ireland erodes Jürgen Habermas’s communicative action and the forum for rational disagreement—the conversational foundation of democratic legitimacy replaced by state-enforced groupthink.

11. Spain: 9 Months for Insulting the Monarchy (2019)

Rapper Pablo Hasél received a 9-month sentence for lyrics calling the monarchy and police “fascists.” Spain imprisons artistic dissent in a manner reminiscent of the absolute monarchies the Enlightenment overthrew—in a supposed liberal democracy, criticism of government institutions now triggers incarceration, the precise tyranny Madison warned against.

12. Italy: Journalist Investigated for Reporting Crime Statistics (2022)

Francesca Totolo faced investigation for reporting migrant crime statistics without “context” under anti-hate laws. Italy censors data-driven journalism where facts require government-approved framing, the Enlightenment project of empirical reality collapses into narrative engineering.

13. Poland: Historian Fined for Holocaust Research (2021)

Historian Jan Grabowski was fined for his book Hunt for the Jews under laws

forbidding attribution of Nazi crimes to Poles. Poland state-mandates historical narrative, assaulting objective history and free academic inquiry—truth determined by legislation rather than evidence, the antithesis of scholarly integrity.

14. Hungary: Opposition Radio Shut Down for “Bias” (2021)

Klubrádió was closed for “biased” coverage deemed hate speech under Orbán’s media laws, silencing critical broadcasts. Hungary nationalizes truth via regulatory fiat, contradicting Milton’s plea against licensing speech—when government decides which opinions qualify as legitimate journalism, the Fourth Estate becomes a Fifth Column.

15. Finland: MP Convicted for Calling Islam “a Cancer” (2023)

Parliamentarian Junes Lokka received a suspended 4-month sentence for Facebook posts calling Islam “a cancer” under ethnic agitation laws. Finland punishes blunt critique of ideology as ethnic hate, confusing belief systems with immutable traits and stifling the mockery of dogma.

16. Greece: Golden Dawn Leaders Imprisoned for Speech (2020)

Golden Dawn leaders received aggregate centuries in prison partly for “hate speech” in speeches containing non-violent anti-immigrant rhetoric. Greece blurs the line between speech and action, punishing persuasion as conspiracy—a slide toward thoughtcrime where inflammatory words, without any incitement to violence, trigger prison time.

17. Czech Republic: €2,000 Fine for “Xenophobic” Blog Post (2024)

A blogger was fined €2,000 for posting about Roma crime, deemed “xenophobic.” The Czech Republic suppresses social commentary on entrenched issues, violating the Enlightenment’s push for open critique—taboo topics enforced by law prevent the rational problem-solving that free societies require.

18. Portugal: €5,000 Fine for Questioning LGBTQ+ Education (2023)

A court ordered removal of a blog post questioning LGBTQ+ education as “indoctrination,” threatening a €5,000 fine. Portugal censors parental and philosophical debate on education, echoing Medieval-era clerical control over knowledge—experts can not be questioned and schools become indoctrination centers.

19. EU Copyright Directive Article 17: Automating Censorship (2019-2022)

Upload filters required by the Copyright Directive have erroneously blocked parody videos critiquing EU policies, including 2022 anti-green deal satire. The EU automates censorship without human judgment, industrializing suppression of fair use and transformative expression—algorithmic prior restraint that makes every creator a potential criminal before publication.

20. Germany: 3 Months for “No Forced Vaccinations” Sign (2024)

Berlin activist “Dr. Tom” received a 3-month sentence for holding a sign reading “No forced vaccinations,” deemed public incitement under pandemic hate laws. Germany criminalizes health skepticism amid crisis, undermining the scientific revolution’s foundation by equating doubt with danger—when questioning government health policy becomes a crime, Galileo weeps.

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Europe stands at a crossroads. The continent that gave birth to the Enlightenment, that gave humanity the revolutionary idea that truth emerges from free debate rather than state decree, now stumbles toward the same authoritarianism its philosophers spent centuries escaping.

These twenty cases aren’t outliers—they’re reflective of a continent that doesn’t trust its own citizens. What’s coming is clear: more laws, broader definitions of “hate,” harsher penalties, and algorithmic enforcement that makes human judgment irrelevant. Europe is destined to become a dystopian, high-tech version of the same tyrannies it once rejected, where every public statement is monitored, every unapproved thought punished, and every citizen reduced to self-imposed silence.

The EU is headed for the abyss.

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