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Mr Young, who co-founded the Free Speech Union in February 2020, added: “As a member of the Royal Family, Harry should be standing up for fundamental British values, such as the right to free speech, not aligning himself with people who want to take that right away from people they disagree with.”
Alice Scarsi, The Daily Express, 15th January 2021.
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Toby Young, [secretary]-general of the Free Speech Union, called Google’s move “an assault on the freedom of the press”.
Jack Wright and Henry Martin, MailOnline, 6th January 2021.
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In this episode Toby Young joins me to discuss his organization, The Free Speech Union, the process of being canceled by an outrage mob on Twitter, and why the value of free speech for all must be protected and defended.
Sasha White interviews Toby Young, Plebity, 27th December 2020.
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To look on the positive side of 2020, we can see that a lot which needs to be done is already in motion. This year, projects like the Free Speech Union, Don’t Divide Us and the Equiano Project were set up. There have recently been some important victories for free speech in universities. And this month, the government decided to drop ‘unconscious bias training’ from the civil service. All of this shows that resistance is beginning to stir.
Inaya Folarin Iman, Spiked, 27th December 2020.
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Jonathan Kay talks to colleague Toby Young about the fine line between journalism and activism, the politics of censorship, and his start-up year at the Free Speech Union.
Johnathan Kay interviews Toby Young, Quillette Podcast, 24th December 2020.
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[T]he publisher has now agreed to pay Ms Burchill her advance in full and has returned all the rights to the tome to her after an intervention by the Free Speech Union. MailOnline understands that five new publishers have now offered to take on the book and Ms Burchill told this publication she will decide on which to go with in the New Year.
Harry Howard and Jack Wright, MailOnline, 23rd December 2020.
Cancel Culture continues to permeate western society and ruin lives. Toby Young is a British writer and commentator. He is also the Founder & Director of The Free Speech Union. FSU is an organization dedicate to upholding free speech and protecting those who are unjustly attacked by the mob.
Angelo Isidorou interviews Toby Young, Cancel This, 21st December 2020.
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Toby Young, for the Free Speech Union, added that he “hope[s] this judgment sends a message to Chief Constables. They’ve been getting their officers to spend far too much time sifting through people’s social media accounts, like little offence archaeologists. They should be policing our streets, not our tweets.”
Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, 18th December 2020.
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Bryn Harris, chief legal counsel of the Free Speech Union said the judgment was “a welcome reminder of when the law will step in to protect free speech.” He added: “We view this as a positive sign that the senior judiciary will exercise their jurisdiction forcefully, and control wayward judges in lower courts who can’t seem to remember their ever-present obligation to protect freedom of expression. The judges in this case rightly recalled that the freedom to offend is not constrained by the facile ‘obligation to be kind’ mooted by the magistrate below.”
Camilla Tominey, The Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2020.
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The Free Speech Union, which represents Burchill, said it will be taking up her case. It called the cancellation of her book “a new low”, adding: “Appeasement is like feeding a crocodile in the hope he will eat you last.”
Jack Wright, MailOnline, 16th December 2020.
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