Tag: Free Speech

The Prime Minister has intervened in the row about whether Kathleen Stock should be allowed to speak at the Oxford Union and said the 'vocal few' must not be allowed to stifle debate.

At the centre of democracy is free speech, but everywhere you look it is under attack. Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson look at the censorship tactics being deployed and how to counter them.

The Oxford University Students' Union has reversed its decision to ban the Oxford Union from freshers' fair after the Union refused to no-platform Kathleen Stock following an intervention by the Free Speech Union.

If you want to discover the limits of free speech nowadays, talk about sex and gender, says Joanna Williams, whose upcoming talk on free speech and gender ideology has been cancelled by an Ontario public library.

More than 40 academics have intervened in support of a planned appearance at Oxford by Prof. Kathleen Stock, after students have tried to cancel her talk because she disputes that 'transwomen are women'.

The Guardian reports a "huge" rise in hurty feelings of climate scientists on Twitter since Elon Musk took over. The "vicious abuse" includes: "Any luck finding the climate crisis yet?"

The U.K. Government is set to spend £600,000 ($755,000) on social media surveillance to identify “harmful disinformation and misinformation narratives”.

Privacy – one of the most basic rights in any free society – is under threat from the Online Safety Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament. The central issue is the undermining of encryption.

Human rights organisation Liberty has suddenly discovered the free speech crisis, for, er, climate change alarmists and anti-monarchy protesters. This is a Left-progressive pantomime, says Dr David McGrogan.

The EU has issued its first list of platforms that will be subject to 'content moderation' requirements. Surprisingly, they include Amazon, Apple and Wikipedia. What censorship does the EU have planned for them?