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After Tash’s experience, Toby Young, the political commentator and founder of the Free Speech Union, wrote to Cressida Dick, the Met commissioner at the time, asking her “to train your officers to avoid acting in a way that is incompatible with free speech rights”.
Jonathan Ames, The Times, 21st October 2022.
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At around 2pm on 15th September I received an email from PayPal informing me that the company was ‘initiating closure’ of my personal account because I was ‘in violation’ of its ‘Acceptable Use Policy’. I looked up that policy and it covers a multitude of sins, but no clue was offered as to which one I’d committed. ‘If you have money in your PayPal balance, we’ll hold it for up to 180 days,’ it said. That was annoying because I had over $700 in the account, but it wasn’t the end of the world. I mainly use it for receiving payments from European magazines I write for occasionally. Then it got serious.
Toby Young, The Pavlovic Today, 18th October 2022.
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Dan Schulman, the president and CEO of PayPal, gave an interview earlier this year entitled: ‘The thing that separates good companies from great ones: trust.’ He told the audience that companies need to do more than deliver an outstanding product to build trust. In addition, they need to ‘stand up for social issues that are important’ and ‘do the right things to help create a better world’. Ironically, it is precisely because PayPal has been energetically pursuing this agenda that trust in the company is beginning to evaporate.
Toby Young, The Spectator, 15th October 2022
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Toby Young, the founder of the Free Speech Union, said that the NEU trans network was planning to redefine transphobia “in such broad terms that any criticism of gender identity ideology – or the agenda of trans rights activists – would be deemed ‘transphobic’.”
Louisa Clarence-Smith, The Telegraph, 10th October 2022.
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Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union, said: “The people running these debating societies have lost sight of their original purpose, which was to expose students to a range of different views, including those they may find challenging and disagreeable, so they can develop their own ideas and opinions and learn how to defend them in the public square. Safe spaces, trigger warnings and risk assessments have turned what were once debating chambers into echo chambers.”
Miles Dilworth, Daily Mail, 9th October 2022.
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Leader of the Free Speech Union Toby Young has also weighed into the debate as he labelled the group ‘zealots’ who were failing to see the bigger picture. “At some point, you’d think it would be clear to these zealots that you’re not going to reduce racial discrimination by discriminating against people on the basis of their race, but they’re so blinkered by ideological groupthink they cannot see this glaring contradiction,” he said.
Arthur Parashar, MailOnline, 9th October 2022.
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Toby Young, of the Free Speech Union said: “At some point, you’d think it would be clear to these zealots that you’re not going to reduce racial discrimination by discriminating against people on the basis of their race, but they’re so blinded by ideological groupthink they cannot see this glaring contradiction.”
Louisa Clarence-Smith, The Telegraph, 7th October 2022.
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PayPal has reversed its decision to close the accounts of the Free Speech Union (FSU) and the child welfare organisation UsforThem. But this ugly incident should not be forgotten. It reveals the vulnerability of even the most respectable pressure groups to arbitrary action by those who, for whatever reason, object to their message. PayPal may have backed down, but this problem is not going to go away.
Jonathan Sumption, The Times, 6th October 2022.
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Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, says: “I cannot see Elon Musk being willing to remove content from Twitter that’s perfectly legal but which some purse-lipped puritan has decided is too dangerous for adults to be trusted with.”
Matthew Field and Gareth Corfield, The Telegraph, 5th October 2022.
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This afternoon Toby Young, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union told MailOnline: “Police forces in England and Wales have been told by the Home Secretary and the head of the College of Policing to stop investigating Twitter spats and focus on crime. Unfortunately, it seems like Surrey Police didn’t get the memo. If I was a Surrey resident who’d been burgled and couldn’t persuade the local police to do anything about it, I’d be extremely angry that they’re wasting time on this trivial nonsense. Something has gone very, very wrong at Surrey Police. They need to get their priorities straight.”
Dan Sales, MailOnline, 5th October 2022.
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