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Smith, who is backed by the Free Speech Union, told The Daily Telegraph: “I’ve been made to look like a criminal. I can’t even go looking for a new job at the minute because I’m frightened of how I might be perceived.” She added: “This has all happened purely because I hold views that other people don’t agree with.”
The Christian Institute, 13th June 2024.
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Toby Young, the director of the Free Speech Union, said: “Ipso acknowledges that journalists’ right to report on court proceedings is an essential part of open justice and in the public interest. I worry that if Ipso crosses the line in this area, what’s to stop it interfering in other editorial judgments?”
Lizzie Roberts, The Times, 7th June 2024.
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Toby Young, director of the Free Speech Union, said: “Ipso acknowledges that journalists’ right to report on court proceedings is an essential part of open justice and in the public interest. Why then is it seeking to curtail that right? How much detail to include in a newspaper report about proceedings in open court is an editorial judgment and not a matter for the regulator. I worry that if Ipso crosses the line in this area, what’s to stop it interfering in other editorial judgments?”
Hayley Dixon and Robert Mendick, The Telegraph, 6th June 2024.
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Toby Young of the Free Speech Union said: “From the Free Speech Union’s point of view, the most egregious element in the proposed amendments to the disciplinary code is the reference to causing offence. As has already been pointed out to Congregation by our Chairman, Nigel Biggar, and others, the law prevents the University from prohibiting or sanctioning speech solely on the ground that it is offensive.”
Martin Alfonsin Larsen and Gaspard Rouffin, The Oxford Student, 6th June 2024.
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The Free Speech Union, which advocates for freedom of speech and defends those whose right to expression has been violated, said: “Forty per cent of the cases we’ve taken on this year have involved gender-critical feminists getting into trouble for saying something perfectly reasonable that a majority of people would agree with, e.g. male sex offenders shouldn’t be housed in women’s prisons, even if they claim to have ‘transitioned’.”
Neil Johnston, The Telegraph, 24th May 2024.
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The Free Speech Union (FSU) is launching a crowdfunder to pay for Ms Frances to have legal representation at her tribunal, for which there was a preliminary hearing last month with further hearings expected for later this year.
Jill Levene, legal counsel at the FSU, said: “Impartiality is the cornerstone of a well-functioning civil service. Eleanor’s treatment is a clear example of a civil service that has been captured by radical progressive ideology.”
Camilla Turner, The Telegraph, 18th May 2024.
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A member of Germany’s right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has had her conviction for incitement to hatred upheld on appeal, after using official statistics to warn that Afghan immigrants are disproportionately liable to commit sexual violence against women and girls.
Frederick Attenborough, The Critic, 9th May 2024.
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The fact that details of this funding arrangement are now in the public domain is thanks in part to the Free Speech Union. Last year, the Free Speech Union assisted Philip Davies MP (Con: Shipley) with preparing a written parliamentary question asking the government how much funding FCDO had given the GDI over the previous three years.
Frederick Attenborough, The European Conservative, 2nd May 2024.
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She is being helped in her legal action by the Free Speech Union, which helped to organise the crowdfunding campaign. Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said: “For Newcastle to punish a fan for saying she thinks sex is biological and immutable — a view 99 per cent of their fans and 100 per cent of the club’s owners agree with — is a grotesque interference in free speech. Jill Levene, legal counsel of the Free Speech Union, said: “Linzi expressed her legally protected gender-critical beliefs and as a result found herself investigated by the police and the Premier League, and banned by her beloved football club. No service provider or membership association should wield such power and the purpose of legal action is to ensure that she is duly compensated for the infringement of her rights under the Equality Act and the Data Protection Act, and the harm she has suffered as a result.”
Gordon Rayner, The Telegraph, 27th April 2024.
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You’d assume the reaction to the SNP’s new hate crime laws would make other authoritarian governments hesitate before introducing similar legislation. Humza Yousaf has become a laughing stock and his approval ratings have fallen by 15 points. But apparently not. The new Irish Taoiseach, Simon Harris, is determined to railroad through the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill, Donald Tusk’s government in Poland wants to introduce a new law that would make it a criminal offence to ‘defame’ a member of the LGBT community and Justin Trudeau is pressing ahead with an Online Harms Bill that makes our own Online Safety Act seem like the First Amendment. It’s as if all these ‘liberal’ leaders are saying: ‘You think Humza Yousaf is the West’s foremost opponent of free speech? Hold my beer.’
Toby Young, The Spectator, 20th April 2024.
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