News Round-Up
7 February 2025
by Toby Young
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In a victory for free speech, ex-Royal Marine Jamie Michael has been cleared of racial hatred after posting a video calling for peaceful protest following the Southport attack. The jury took just 17 minutes to acquit him.
People have been celebrating Tesla's investigation into the cybertruck explosion, which tracked the perpetrator, via Tesla's charging stations, from Colorado to Las Vegas. But shouldn't we be worried by such surveillance?
A new hate crime law came into effect in Ireland yesterday. In spite of the worst clauses in the hate crime bill being stripped out, it's still a dark day for free speech in Ireland, says Frederick Attenborough.
On GB News, a Labour Party advisor said he hadn’t heard about the RE teacher in Batley who's still in hiding after showing his students a cartoon of Muhammed three years ago. Is Labour's echo chamber really that small?
Keir Starmer has written a piece for the Sunday Times commemorating the October 7th massacre. But there's just one crucial word missing from it, says Frederick Attenborough: Hamas. Why?
The Australian Government's proposed misinformation bill may be "dead in the water" following significant pushback from opposition Senators in the upper house of the federal Parliament, says Frederick Attenborough.
In a victory for free speech, the 'hate speech' clauses in Ireland's Hate Crime Bill, which would have seen people jailed for mere possession of 'hateful' material, have been scrapped.
A Swiss girl has been been taken into care because her parents stopped her taking puberty blockers, breaching a ban on conversion therapy. Is this what Labour means by a "full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices"?
In a disappointing verdict, the US Supreme Court has sidestepped the question of whether the federal government breached the First Amendment when it coerced social media companies to remove dissident content.
Elon Musk has said "freedom of speech is worth fighting for" after Australia's cyber safety regulator dropped its federal court case over X Corp's refusal to globally block footage it deemed harmful.
The US Supreme Court has unanimously revived the NRA's lawsuit against a former New York official accused of strong-arming banks into cutting ties with the organisation.
Accusations of 'hate speech' are being increasingly used to silence lawful discussions unpopular with progressives in the European Parliament.
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