Khan is in favor of “hate speech” restrictions. “Hate speech” is an entirely subjective concept, a tool that the powerful use to silence the powerless. Khan also claims that he received racist abuse because of Trump’s criticism of him. Yet Khan harshly criticized Trump as well. Did Trump receive any racist abuse as a result? It wouldn’t matter if he did; the “hate speech” racket is entirely one-sided. Also, Khan has no actual proof whatsoever that anyone sent him an insulting message because of anything Trump said about him.
“‘Has Trump learned his lesson?’ Sadiq Khan urges big tech to stop hate speech,” by Kari Paul, Guardian, May 11, 2022:
From a stage in the heart of Silicon Valley, London mayor Sadiq Khan called on tech companies to rein in hate speech, speaking about his own experience of abuse amplified by one of the most powerful figures on social media.
He was referencing Donald Trump, who frequently used the mayor as an online punching bag, calling Khan “a stone-cold loser” and “very dumb”. Khan, whose family are from Pakistan, said the amount of racial abuse he received on social media increased by 2,000% under Trump and required him to receive police protection.
“The worst thing globalization has brought to social media is the proliferation of hate speech,” said Khan, speaking at Stanford University as part of his first visit to the US since the pandemic began.
Khan emphasized the power that companies have to act, saying that in the year after Twitter banned Trump over his role in inciting the attack at the US Capitol, he received “the least racial abuse of any time over five years”. Abuse directed at Khan declined by 75% in 2020, the year Trump lost the election, and a further 40% in 2021 after the ban from Twitter, according to statistics from London’s city hall.
The speech came just hours after Elon Musk, who is poised to take over Twitter, announced he would allow the former US president to return to the platform.
Khan stopped short of condemning Musk’s plans, saying he believes “passionately in freedom of speech” and trusts that those who lead Twitter will “make sure that you aren’t seeing messages that are inciting hatred, that are amplifying division”.
“The question is whether Donald Trump has learned his lesson,” Khan said. “Everybody should be entitled to be rehabilitated. And if it’s the case that Donald Trump is going to use Twitter in a responsible way, then it’s all well and good. But if he breaks the rules, there needs to be consequences.”
Musk has been vocal about his plans for Twitter after he revealed on 4 April he had become a majority stakeholder in the company and then rapidly negotiated a deal to buy the company for $44bn. He called the decision to ban Trump “morally bad” and “foolish in the extreme”.
Khan called on tech companies on Tuesday to “act rationally” and introduce new algorithmic measures to preemptively crack down on hate speech and misinformation. He called the current landscape “lawless”.
“On the one hand, social media, Facebook, Twitter – great,” he said. “On the other hand, [the abuse] is the consequence of a lack of control and lack of regulation.”…
Westman says
Khan called the current landscape, “lawless”.
That’s just what I was thinking about London becoming the UK, “Chicago”.
mortimer says
Apparently, it isn’t ‘hate speech’ when Khan does it. He is such a two-faced hypocrite.
However, he implies that conservatives may not express their views when stated with any passion or flair … only Leftists have a ‘right’ to speak with any vehemence.
Khan came to power after defending jihadic terrorists.
maria says
Khan is a muslim and hate non-muslims. He the worst mayor of London ever.And he already supports jihadists but in secret
bill says
Actually he was elected because the opponent was very unattractive and many people did not bother to vote but he was supported by the Muslim community in London which is significant. He is a copper bottomed ocean going useless pratt. Crime has soared in London during his time. I trust he will leave office when his term is over
Infidel says
Sadiq mian
The US is no more a part of the British Empire then that 💩hole you came from – Pakistan – is!
gravenimage says
London’s mayor Khan hopes Trump has ‘learned his lesson’ but should remain censored if he hasn’t
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Just appalling. And the claim from Khan that he “believes passionately in freedom of speech” while demanding censorship could not be more grotesque.
These are the kinds of things he wants censored:
Trump claimed Khan had “done a very bad job on terrorism”. He added: “I think he has done a bad job on crime, if you look, all of the horrible things going on there, with all of the crime that is being brought in.” (from 2018)
mortimer says
He actually believes ‘FREE SPEECH FOR ME, BUT NOT FOR THEE!’
Muslims believe that they have an Allah-given RIGHT not-to-hear anything they dislike to hearl.
That means that only Muslims and only their mullahs in particular have a right to speak.
gravenimage says
Yes, Mortimer–this is orthodox Islam under Shari’ah.
ronyvo says
Folks, but this is exactly is ISLAM. Khan is Muslim and a fanatic one. One should not blame him but blame and strongly so, those who voted for him.
Boiling Frog says
Muslims love censorship and “hate speech” laws because that codifies their ability to squash any speech that criticizes Islam or that tells the awful facts that the “prophet” Mohammed of Islam was a pedophile and murderer and sex slave owner who made women second class citizens and who hated Christians and Jews to to point of killing and subjugating them and mandating that all Muslims work to do do the same, unless they agree to become Muslims.
VICTORMc. says
I was born and bred in London. I left years and years ago as did my children and now with my grandchildren.
Khan typifies what London has become. I call it a ‘black’ city. A place of horror. The world does not know nor understand what happened last week when a convicted Muslim criminal was re-elected as a mayor of Tower Hamlets an almost totally black area. He was ‘banned’ from politics for 7 years- yes he’s that bad. I will never go back to London but should it ever be inevitable I would not even drive through certain areas. It is much much worse than Manhattan. (and you once thought that was bad…)
Melc says
I thought he was banned for 5 years.
He must have switched on the Islamic fear and bribery section. The man should be deported as an undesirable and detrimental to social cohesion. What can’t these chutias not get away with and Tommy Robinson goes to jail for exposing Pakistani and Bangladeshi gangs raping children as young as 9. UK is finished unless action is taken by the government.
gravenimage says
He *was* banned for five years, Mel–back in 2015. Now he’s free to do it again.
ronyvo says
You are right 100%,VICTORMc.
JCA Reid ( says
This man is a hypocrite. He’s totally inept for Public Office & should be removed. He makes that Chicago Mayor appear to be super efficient!
Pierre Delecto says
Khan is walking validation of Enoch Powell.
Half A century after the fact. Everything may seem fresh and new to youngsters. But I see A sequence of perfectly predictable slow motion disasters designed and intended to liquidate social harmony. A proper sense of our history and notion of self worthiness should be our armor.
Melc says
He wants to change all the street names in the UK. Whitechapel underground station is now written in Bengali script!!!!
I see that crook Lutfer Rahman has been re- elected to Tower Hamlets after being barred from office for 5 years for fraudulent behaviour. Sharia is on its way.
gravenimage says
Yes–appalling about Rahman. He was removed as mayor after being found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices. But now he’s back–Muslims don’t care about one of theirs flouting Infidel laws.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-61358043
No reason to suppose he has changed.
Black Sabbath says
It is Karma… British looting people all around the world….and now a low life jihadi is transforming their London into jihadistan. What a monumental fall from grace. Go Ireland!!!! Free yourself from the sinking ship.
Melc says
The comprodore class in South Asia did very well out of the East India Company and the Princes freed from Muslim rule accumulated vast wealth. The UK working class in the textile mills who were grossly exploited, supported Gandhi when his visited Manchester. Only the rich capitalist industrialists prospered. The Brit working class didn’t. Do some research.
gravenimage says
Actually, Mel, the Industrial Revolution raised standards of living at all levels of society. Just compare places that have had an industrial revolution to those that have not. Life expectancy in Britain rose from 35 in 1781 to 40 in 1851, a 15 percent increase.
The only reason these numbers sound grim now is that standards of living have *continued* to rise.
gravenimage says
What claptrap from Black Sabbath.
And Ireland is in just the same kind of trouble from ravening Muslims–as in Britain, largely foolishly self inflicted.
Sylvi Clark says
The British did not loot, we traded and built infrastructures and provided technologies, as well as foreign aid and education to these developing nations. Had we not done so they would still be living in the dark ages, facing starvation, disease, conflict and continued isolation from the developed world.
Melc says
Sadiq Khan is an Islamic Trojan Horse. He is very cunning. He uses UK law to introduce Sharia. He represented Jihadist Farahkhan when he tried to come to UK from America a few years back.
He has a cheek telling a US president what he can and cannot say and then says he believes in free speech. Makes him a hypocrite as well.
The London Left should be ashamed of itself supporting this piece of work.
Andrew Blackadder says
This silly silly wee nipple high sad ass excuse for a man says he received death threats and needed Police Protection and thats just too bad however forgetting that many non muslim public figures have received MANY death threats from his fellow morons of the religion of piss and need 24/7/365 Police Protection because they spoke truth to power that islam is a satanic violent hate filled Fascist Religious Cult and he cant handle that, and let us not forget about the insulting balloon of Trump in a Nappy he flew over London, plus he had the bloody cheek to say the President of the USA was not welcome in the UK as if he was the bloody King rather than a silly silly wee sad excuse of a man.
London has gone down hill drastically since he was playing the part of Mayor and just like many other Mayors of Towns and Cities across England hes a muslim and my birth land, Britain, will never be the same and thankfully I left it in 1970 and will never live there again…
allah aint akbar hes the devil in a turban.
gravenimage says
Khan to my knowledge never produced a single death threat, nor was a single person prosecuted for sending him threats. This may well have been fake victim-mongering.
OLD GUY says
One persons hate speech is another persons truth. Some people like Khan just hate it when you talk about the evil of Islam towards women and non-islamic people. He is silent when the religious leaders of islam plainly use the media to rant about killing infidels and the Jewish population and fails to label those statements as HATE Speech. Islam should be censored and outlawed from western civilization.
Sylvi Clark says
Who on earth does this big nosed, knee high to a grasshopper turd think he is ?
Sad Dick Khan is a repulsive, deceitful, arrogant little shyster, who has reduced London to a fetid, Islamic infested swamp.
ISLAM :-
Islam is not a religion in the true sense of the word. It is a “tyrannical, violence-ridden, misogynistic socio-political ideology, masquerading as a religion. It is also totally incompatible with all civilised westernised countries, and specifically in relation to the values we hold dear, such as our right to freedom of speech, democracy, and human rights. Moslems who choose to religiously follow Islamic scripture and the Hadiths ( spoken word) have just one agenda, the subjugation of the host population to their barbarian, 7th century, and primitive way of living, which is wholly intolerant of all other faiths, cultures and systems of Law. Sharia Law is the only system of Law many Moslems are willing to adhere to.
“Ever since its foundation 1400 years ago, Islam has been at war with the rest of the World. Territorially, it held sway over the whole of south-Eastern Europe as far North as the borders of Austria until the 17th century, before finally being expelled from the Granada region in 1492 by the Spanish. Islam also held sway over the whole of Spain, as well as its Arabian homelands in North Africa and the Middle East. It is ruthlessly imperialistic in ambition and WILL subjugate the West given the chance to do so. If the West is to survive, we have to adopt a similar war mentality. To do nothing is simply no longer an option .
The epicentre of Islam, the Ottoman Empire, fell into backwardness, corruption and bankruptcy in the 19th century ,and was defeated in WW1 1914-18. However, this was not before it had cynically exterminated 1.5 million Armenian Christians in 1915 .
Oil riches since the mid-20th century have financed the recovery of Islam, as has also population growth, which is used by Moslems as a weapon against the Infidel.
Every other culture Islam meets, it tries to disrupt, not just in the West , but also in India, China and elsewhere in Asia.”
In addition the modern day Ottomans very recently assisted the Moslems in Azerbaijan to defeat Christian Armenia.
We as a Christian nation stood by and did nothing to even try and prevent this from happening to our fellow Christians.