Bill Maher calls for unconditional free voice support in the middle of UK Crackdown

Host “in real time” Bill Maher He called on the Americans on Friday to support the free speech without the conditions that they would not achieve like the United Kingdom, which has greatly increased their implementation of speech violations in the last few years.

While talking about breaking freedom of speech that he felt the president Donald Trump In recent years, including the suggestion that flags burn a punishable prison deadline, Maher warned that the United States cannot follow the footsteps in the UK

“This country cannot become that, but it can also not become what is now in the UK, where they arrested for tweets, something that happens 12,000 times A year in Britain, “he warned.

12.000 The number comes from the state path Sight Sing Singe In Britain.

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“In real time” it is listed Arrest of the writers of Irish Comedy Graham Linehan in the UK earlier this month as evidence in Britain on free speech. Linehan was arrested at the airport in London Heathrow last week in several places of social media, which criticize transgender activists.

Bill Maher Hosting “Real Time” 12. September 2025. (Screenshot / HBO shot)

“Last week, the Irish Sitcom writer Graham Linehan, who won the AMMI and five BAFTA awards, and not because he sold the flawless houts, just because it was too long to spend too many times online.

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Maher continued, noted that there are a lot of “not crazy people, liberal people” who feel that the left went “a little crazy” with transgender issues, including the author of JK Rowling and Comedian Dave Chappelle.

“Some have expressed that opinion by literary sophisticated, like JK Rowling. Some are placed a big laugh, like Dave Chappella. And some are completely ugly about it, like Lineham,” he said. “But the ugly is the price of freedom so great as a speech.”

By continuing his point to stand up for free speech, even an offensive speech, he led the arrest of the Columbia University Mahmoud Khalila over his Pro-Palestinian activism in the campus.

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The writer “Father Ted” Graham Linehan was arrested in relation to social media posts that criticize trans ideology. .

Maher claimed that he found Khalil’s Anti-Israel Op-Ed published in a journalistic insult school, would still “go on the mat so it could print it.”

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Fox News’ Rachel Wolf has contributed to this report.