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title: "If you want to see how the USG will expand surveillance and social…"
date: 2023-11-19
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# If you want to see how the USG will expand surveillance and social…

*November 19, 2023 · Facebook*

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[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-12765795/PETER-HITCHENS-Liberty-fought-tyranny-barely-noticed-court-hearing-week-believe-one-important-cases-time.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-12765795/PETER-HITCHENS-Liberty-fought-tyranny-barely-noticed-court-hearing-week-believe-one-important-cases-time.html){target="_blank"}
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If you want to see how the USG will expand surveillance and social controls look to what the UK is already doing now:\
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\"The case dates back to July 2022 when the Foreign Office imposed sanctions on a video blogger called Graham Phillips, a UK citizen and former civil servant living in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine.\
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Described in Parliament as a \'pro-Russian propagandist\', Mr Phillips was made the subject of an \'asset freeze\' and is challenging the sanctions decision.\
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Although most people would find his views repellent and believe he has behaved badly in other ways, as the great US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter once said: \'The safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.\'\
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The High Court heard how sanctions mean Mr Phillips is \'experiencing hardship\'. He cannot be paid for work, pay bills or his mortgage on a London house or even his Council Tax. Although he can apply for licences to be allowed to do so, he refuses on principle to live by Government permission.\"
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