The Government’s planned Online Safety Bill is intended to make the internet “safer”, but the Bill is a threat to our freedom of speech. It will lead to the censorship of speech that is legal offline, with companies obliged to remove material for dangerously vague reasons like an “adverse” psychological impact.

Published April 2021.

This is a 10-point manifesto for this year’s local elections. These ten policies would immediately improve the state of freedom of speech in the UK. The FSU would like to see these policies adopted by every party in this election and beyond. The FSU does not endorse any political party or candidates.

Published March 2021.

Non-Crime Hate Incidents (NCHIs) are a recent and chilling restriction of our free speech. Public awareness of NCHIs has grown since police recorded Harry Miller (in 2019) and Darren Grimes (in 2020) as having committed such “incidents”.

Published March 2021.

The Law Commission of England and Wales has proposed a number of changes to the law on hate crime that have been described as the Scottish Hate Crime Bill on steroids.

Published November 2020.

Many employers are insisting their workers undergo Unconscious Bias Training. But UBT isn’t based on science and the evidence suggests it doesn’t make people any less racist and may make them more so.

Published September 2020.

The Government published the Online Harms White Paper in April 2019 and intends to put a Bill before Parliament next year. The proposals aim to make the UK “the safest place in the world to go online”, but they will seriously infringe free speech.

Published September 2020.