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Police admit attempt to ‘silence’ Christian street preacher for criticising other religions and atheism was ‘disproportionate’ as they back down in free speech row

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Bryn Harris, Chief Legal Officer for the Free Speech Union, said: “The state does not hold a monopoly on truth and the ability to discuss and debate ideas, including religious ideas, is the lifeblood of any genuinely free society.. Yet, repeatedly, we see this principle violated by unaccountable police officers and local councils who aggressively pursue their own ideological causes rather than using scarce public resources to tackle real crime.”

Rory Tingle, Daily Mail, 27th February 2024.

‘My political views have nothing to do with you’: Newcastle United fan who was banned from matches until 2026 ‘for her trans views’ reveals Premier League compiled ‘Stasi’ dossier about her where she was called ‘the target’

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She will be supported in her case by the Free Speech Union, which campaigns against the ever increasing restrictions on speech in the United Kingdom. The FSU said that it is likely that this is not a one-off case, and said it has established an online service for people to launch subject access requests to see if they have been targeted.

Lettice Bromovsky, Daily Mail, 5th February 2024.

Newcastle United Supporter Banned From Matches for Questioning Transgenderism Online: Report

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She will be supported in her case by the Free Speech Union, which campaigns against the ever increasing restrictions on speech in the United Kingdom. The FSU said that it is likely that this is not a one-off case, and said it has established an online service for people to launch subject access requests to see if they have been targeted.

Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, 3rd February 2024.

Football fan banned over gender-critical posts after ‘Stasi’ Premier League investigation

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The Free Speech Union, which campaigns for freedom of speech and helps people to defend their rights in court, believes the case is not an isolated one and has set up an online tool to make it easy for people to submit subject access requests.
Toby Young, the general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said: “This is the most egregious example of corporate interference with free speech I’ve ever come across. In effect, the social media accounts of football fans are being monitored by the ‘Stadium Stasi’. It’s like something out of 1984.”

Gordon Rayner, The Telegraph, 2nd February 2024.

Employees have the right to be gender-critical

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The Free Speech Union has recently launched an FOI investigation into the transgender policies of various public sector bodies. For anyone concerned to protect freedom of speech in the workplace, they make for grim, deeply dispiriting reading. But the document released to us by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is arguably the most egregious we’ve found to date.

Frederick Attenborough, The Critic, 24th January 2024.

The Brussels-led Pathologization of Speech

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On January 18th, the European Parliament (EP) will vote on a resolution that proposes extending the list of EU-wide crimes to include all forms of ‘hate crime’ and ‘hate speech’.
If, as looks likely, the resolution is passed, the only thing standing in the way of these dubious categories of speech being added to the EU’s list of particularly serious crimes that “have impact beyond national borders” will be a vote in the Council of the European Union.

Frederick Attenborough, The European Conservative, 17th January 2024.

British Government Launches “Marketing Campaign” To Get Children Back to School

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Welcoming the back-to-school ad campaign, Toby Young—General Secretary of the Free Speech Union and Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Sceptic (formerly Lockdown Sceptics)—told The European Conservative: “For those of us who criticised the government for closing schools during the pandemic, this is a welcome change. The pity is it’s taken almost four years for the government to issue the correct advice.”

Michael Curzon, The European Conservative, 10th January 2024.

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