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The Online Harms White Paper was created largely by staff in the Home Office, and the government now plans an internet censorship bill of the same name next year. As our Free Speech Union briefing explains, the government’s plans are a profound threat to our freedom of speech.
Dr Radomir Tylecote, Spiked, 24th September 2020.
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Toby Young […] told MailOnline: “No one should be punished for expressing their religious beliefs in private, whether they are a Christian or a Muslim. Not only has Kristie Higgs’ right to privacy been violated, but so too has her right to free speech.”
Jack Wright and Georgia Simcox, MailOnline, 21st September 2020.
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She and the Free Speech Union, of which she is a member, complained to the university authorities, pointing out that its event management policy was “committed to the protection of freedom of speech” and the society’s own aims claimed to promote “exposure to a diversity of thought” for members.
Nick Craven, The Mail on Sunday, 20th September 2020.
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Within hours the invitation was restored. They would have got away with it if wasn’t for that pesky Free Speech Union…
Guido Fawkes, 18th September 2020
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As our new briefing at the Free Speech Union explains, [the government’s plans] will lead to sweeping online censorship unprecedented in a democracy. Some of the harms the plans describe are vague, like “unacceptable content” and “disinformation”. The new regulations will prohibit material “that may directly or indirectly cause harm” even if it is “not necessarily illegal”.
Dr Radomir Tylecote, The Daily Telegraph, 18th September 2020.
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Author Douglas Murray talks about the new Afterword to The Madness of Crowds, his best-selling book about identity politics, and the events of the last six months which have accelerated the toxic trends he warned about.
Toby Young interviews Douglas Murray, Quillette Podcast, 3rd September 2020.
We discuss the importance of free speech, the threats to it, and why Inaya thinks the Black Lives Matter movement is not only incorrect in its assumptions but divisive and disempowering for black people.
Max Klinger interviews Inaya Folarin Iman, E2 Review Podcast, 25th August 2020.
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The Free Speech Union’s submission to the public consultation, prepared by Professor Andrew Tettenborn of Swansea University, regards the Bill as the most draconian constraint on free speech in the Western world.
Robert Oulds and Niall McCrae The Express, 27th August 2020.
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Indeed, that is why my own mother, who raised me and my siblings single-handedly, came from Nigeria to Britain. She saw it as a “land of hope” with so many more opportunities than her native country would offer us. She has been to the Proms and has no problem with the lyrics.
Inaya Folarin Iman, Daily Mail, 23rd August 2020.
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Oxford don Nigel Biggar, who has been called a ‘pariah’ for his work on the Empire, says the threat to academic freedom is no myth.
Nigel Biggar, The Daily Telegraph, 8th August 2020.
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