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Richard Medhurst a journalist YouTuber released a video saying he was "arrested" under terrorism act in Heathrow airport, escorted from the plane. He speak about his experience in length in a video on his YouTube channel at:

https://youtu.be/QYa-cb7MzIo?si=EbJ6TPD73VPkyOrg

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have as much sympathy for him as I'd have for Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan.

He's constantly platforming Scott Ritter about nazis in Ukraine. No journalistic integrity, checking background, attempts at balance, he just talks to people who support his worldview uncritically...I wouldn't be surprised in the middle of his torrent of bullshit he threatened anyone and now is faced with what he said.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I looked over his X profile.

It's not a war between Russia and Ukraine. It's a war between NATO and Russia, with Ukraine being used as a pawn, and Ukrainians paying the price of NATO expansion and antagonism.

Explosive.

Russia is now demanding that Europe pay for gas in rubles.

Europe gets 40% of its gas from Russia. That’s 200-800 million euros per day.

Putin is basically saying: you want to play sanctions? Either pay up in rubles or freeze.

Yeah, can’t imagine why the UK government would want to detain and ask him some questions right now at this one particular moment in time; not like something has happened recently that woke them up to the real world urgency of allowing Russia to put dangerous toxic bullshit into their social media landscape that might have made them want to take any actions about it.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Mind saying why? No I don't want to watch a video to find out.

[–] small44@lemmy.world -5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He is analysing hamas videos of attacking idf soldier. I don't think it's justify the arrest

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] febra@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't it funny how liberals will let this slide just because they don't agree with his positions? Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a conservative, nor a liberal, I'm a communist, and no, I do not agree with Richard Medhurst or his positions on the Russia - Ukraine war, but I think it's quite worrisome that we're arresting people on "terrorism" for saying bullshit we don't like. 20 years ago a terrorism charge meant you'd be caught building a bomb, or providing a terrorist organisation with material support, nowadays it constitutes spreading Russian propaganda, or sharing some opinions that some bad guys might also have (or be interpreted as such), and that the government has decided is punishable. And yes, his opinions do suck.

Just wait for the regime in the UK to change, wait for the far-right brexit geezers that have been rioting to get in power, and we'll see many more people (including journalists and activists) get arrested under the suspicion of "terrorism" just for saying things the current/future regime doesn't like. You are creating some very dangerous instruments for future governments to use and abuse. It's scary how much trust the civil society is thereby putting in all future governments that will have these tools at their disposal.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You have no idea what he said. Maybe he said "free palestine!" or maybe he said "kill all jews" to his audience of 100k. If it is the latter, I think he should be punished, like anyone else who incites violence against any group, from anywhere in the political spectrum. His positions on Ukraine only matter to establish that he has no credibility and his "testimony" is worthless.

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 6 points 3 weeks ago

a journalist YouTuber

You may only pick one of these

Shit-stirring, attention-seeking cunt is more likely

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Freedom of the press, freedom of speech really are under attack. The state is cracking down and escalating, to try and stop people from speaking out against our government’s complicity in genocide.