The United Kingdom's interior ministry is prohibiting two progressive commentators, Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, from visiting the country to participate in an ideas festival. This is abject censorship and ought to be condemned as such.
Uygur is a cohost of The Young Turks, a popular news program on YouTube. Piker, who made a name for himself as a Twitch streamer, is Uygur's nephew. Both are relentless critics of the state of Israel. Piker often goes much further than Uygur, and has repeatedly made gross and inflammatory statements, including that America "deserved 9/11" and offering praise for repressive communist regimes.
