President Trump commented on free speech issues in the UK during a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer:

REPORTER: You have a successful social media site. There are new powers to censor-censor your site. DONALD TRUMP: You mean Truth Social? TRUMP: Well, I don’t think he’s going to censor mine because I say only good things. Will you please uncensor my site? PM KEIR STARMER: We’re not censoring anyone. We’ve got some measures which are there to protect children, in particular from sites like suicide sites. We’ve had too many cases in the United Kingdom of young children taking their own lives, and when you look through their social media, they’ve been accessing sites which talk about suicide and encouraging, if you like, children down that road. And that is what we want to stop. Nothing about censoring free speech. This country has had proud free speech for a very long time. We’re very, very proud of it. We will protect it forever. But at the same time, I personally feel very strongly that we should protect our young teenagers-and that’s what it usually is-from things like suicide sites. I don’t see that as a free speech issue. I see that as child protection. TRUMP: We actually passed a bill in Congress-headed up by my wife, actually-which was to pull bad stuff out having to do with children, because it is a problem. But I cannot imagine him censoring Truth Social. That’s more of a very political-and, you know, it’s been a very big success. And I only say good things about him and his country. So if they censor me, you’re making a mistake. I’m gonna give my ambassador the job-make sure it’s not censored. I had not heard that.

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