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Free Speech Union general secretary Toby Young said the verdict “sets a dangerous precedent”. He said: “It sends a message to other political activists they they can muzzle the free Press without suffering the consequences.”
Ben Hill, The Scottish Sun, 29th April 2021.
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The general secretary of the Free Speech Union, Toby Young, added: “Newton famously said, ‘If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ Everyone studying maths or engineering deserves to stand on Newton’s shoulders so they, too, can see further, regardless of their ethnicity.”
Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, 26th April 2021.
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Following a concerted campaign from, among others, Fair Cop and the Free Speech Union, Priti Patel on Saturday let it be known that in her view this would not do. She would be pressing the College to revise its guidance and drop the official recording of any incident that did not in fact amount to an offence. She clearly meant business: as a Home Office source put it, presumably with her blessing, “if people are found to have done nothing wrong, the police shouldn’t punish them.”
Andrew Tettenborn, The Spectator, 26th April 2021.
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The Free Speech Union, of which I’m the Chief Legal Counsel, assists many young university students who are punished for having opinions not to the taste of those with power and the unscrupulousness to abuse it. To be fair, some university administrators are well-meaning but misguided. It is certain too that many administrators are simply terrified witless — disregard a claim that someone, somewhere is offended, and who knows what denunciation may follow?
Bryn Harris, The Critic, 25th April 2021.
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Meanwhile The Free Speech Union also criticised the the policy. Toby Young, General Secretary of the FSU, said: “Non-Crime Hate Incidents are an invention of the College of Policing, an unelected body”.
Shari Miller, MailOnline, 25th April 2021.
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The Free Speech Union (FSU) founded by journalist Toby Young has warned that the government’s Digital Harms Bill is “a serious threat” to journalists, online debate and discussions. It also hands sweeping new powers to the watchdog Ofcom which has already raised alarms this year by significantly expanding its definition of hate speech to include offence to transgender groups and other controversial areas where people may be offended.
David Maddox, The Daily Express, 24th April 2021.
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Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union, told the BBC that the university has “wasted time and money” teaching staff how to “speak woke-ish”.
Maureen Sugden, The Hearld, 17th April 2021.
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The Free Speech Union has been monitoring the progress of the bill since it was first run up the flagpole and we are glad to see some recent improvements to it. Nonetheless, without major changes, it will still mean lawful online speech will end up being censored.
Radomir Tylecote, Spiked, 13th April 2021.
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Toby Young, General Secretary of the FSU, said: “Non-Crime Hate Incidents are an invention of the College of Policing, an unelected body. They have never been approved by Parliament, there is no legal threshold or independent evidentiary test applied to them and members of the public have no right of appeal against them. Indeed, a member of the public can have a Non-Crime Hate Incident recorded against their name without ever being informed of the fact. Mr Young concluded: “It is time we did away with this Orwellian practice that has little or no basis in law and is used in a highly subjective fashion as we saw in the Harry Miller case. The recording of these non-crimes on people’s police records has a chilling effect on free speech.”
James Robinson, MailOnline, 6th April 2021.
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Toby Young, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, previously criticised the BBC for giving classic programmes a “moral health warning”. He said: “The BBC has been taken over by the ‘woke’ cult. Its managers are like 17th Century Witchfinder Generals, constantly on the lookout for heretics. Any programmes that depart from their narrow ideological dogma are immediately slapped with a moral health warning. Someone needs to remind them that Britain is the birthplace of Parliamentary democracy and the licence-payers who pay their wages believe in free speech.”
Rachel Russell, The Daily Express, 6th April 2021.
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