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After extensive discussions with the British Board of Film Classification, which advises network providers, and following the help of and legal advice from the Free Speech Union, the operators have agreed that the content of TCW does not need to be blocked, and have lifted the block on the site. They are now blocking the comments section, with a view to reviewing this in the future.
TCW, 20th September 2022.
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The chief legal counsel of a U.K.-based organization that advocates for freedom of speech, Free Speech Union, Bryn Harris, told the Sun that the laws were set to protect public order, not to control what people are saying or determine what’s acceptable or not. “The police have been making the mistake of not asking themselves if the action is likely to disturb public order,” Mr. Harris said. “They see a sign and immediately assume it’s going to disturb public order.” At the moment, Mr. Harris said, there is a general concern about the “misuse of public order powers.”
Clara Preve-Durrieu, New York The Sun, 16th September 2022.
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The Free Speech Union has offered support to the protesters. As has basically every other prominent free-speecher you could name.
Tom Slater, Spiked, 13th September 2022.
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The Free Speech Union has expressed concern that the protester been [sic] arrested for voicing anti-monarchist views during the Proclamation of King Charles III yesterday.
Guido Fawkes, 12th September 2022.
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Also speaking to the podcast this week is journalist and General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Toby Young. Toby reflected on the downfall of Boris Johnson’s premiership, and said he was “disappointed” the former Prime Minister wasn’t able to overcome his shortcomings. “I was always sort of aware of Boris’s character flaws and in particular his inability to really focus on the task in hand. He’s always been easily distracted, always got too many things on the go, juggling too many balls,” he said. “I really did think that he would rise to the occasion and he didn’t.”
Allison Pearson, Liam Halligan, Zoe Hitch and Isabelle Bougeard, The Telegraph, 8th September 2022.
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Toby Young, the Free Speech Union’s general secretary, said: “The gradual erasure of feminist societies in Britain’s universities is a national scandal and is a perfect illustration of why the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which will hold universities to account, is so urgently needed. I hope Liz Truss will push it to the top of her priority list.”
Ewan Somerville, The Telegraph, 3rd September 2022.
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Other speakers included Toby Young of the Free Speech Union and anti-extremism academic Wasiq Wasiq.
National Secular Society, 1st September 2022.
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The reporting apparatus has drawn criticism from members of the Free Speech Union, which has legally represented academics whose speech has been policed or silenced. Byrn Harris, legal counsel for the union, said the group is wary of a growing trend of higher education institutions allowing “sousveillance” – surveillance conducted by members within the group being monitored. He said: “This can include procedures that facilitate students telling tales on one another – even by encouraging the disclosure of private social media messages – as well as the sort of “sousveillance” reported at Lamda. It is overwhelmingly obvious to most people that surveillance not only will result in dull and unambitious teaching, but also carries deeply unpleasant reminiscences of totalitarian practice.”
Craig Simpson, The Telegraph, 20th August 2022.
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Writing in the Express, journalist and campaigner Toby Young warned Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak that free speech was “under attack” and charged them to defend it. Young, Founder and Director of The Free Speech Union and associate editor of The Spectator, recently spoke to The Institute’s Simon Calvert about ‘woke intolerance’ and the freedom to disagree.
The Christian Institute, 20th August 2022.
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It is a sad indictment of the movement that the only union that is taking a robust stand against this climate of intolerance is the Free Speech Union (FSU), founded by conservative journalist Toby Young. The FSU is campaigning to have the Employment Rights Act amended to prohibit employers from sanctioning workers for saying non-woke things outside the workplace.
Paul Embery, Spiked, 18th August 2022.
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