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Certainly, the Free Speech Union (FSU) knows of plenty of people referred to Prevent when lawful but controversial views were misread as signs of extremism: a Christian teacher who stated that marriage is between a man and a woman; a schoolboy who declared in a YouTube video that “there’s no such thing as non-binary”; a 24-year-old autistic man whose social worker reported that he’d been viewing “offensive and anti-trans” websites and “focusing on lots of right-wing darker comedy”.
Freddie Attenborough, The Critic, 10th June 2025.