The Australian Academy of Sciences has made a disgraceful call for broadcast news and the internet to censor what it called “harmful disinformation” about climate change, the Great Barrier Reef and Covid vaccines.
Steven Edgington writes in the Telegraph about the moral panic over 'disinformation' and the clueless Conservatives handing their ideological enemies a nuclear weapon in the form of the Online Censor Conservatives Bill.
Professor David Livermore has responded to Meta’s Oversight Board which has requested feedback on Facebook’s misinformation policy. He thinks the only items that should be flagged misinformation are egregious nonsense.
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak should both pledge to do more to protect free speech as part of their leadership pitch. How about promising to ditch ’Non-Crime Hate Incidents’?
In a sign of the anti-woke agenda breaking through in the race to pick the next PM, leading candidate Liz Truss pledged to ensure free speech does not have fewer protections online than offline. But is it enough?
In a speech later today, Rishi Sunak will attack "woke nonsense" and defend "British freedoms". Please use the Free Speech Union's campaigning tool to email Sunak and Truss urging to them to do more to protect free speech.
Is the Ukrainian Government's recently published 'blacklist' of its critics really an attack on the free press? Ian Rons doesn't think so. After all, the First Amendment wouldn't prevent the U.S. Government doing the same.
The Free Speech Union has created a new campaigning tool so Conservative members can write to the candidates in the leadership race, urging them to stand up for free speech. If you're a Tory member, please email them now.
So many times we hear: "It’s not worth speaking out, I can’t risk it." In the long run, many will regret such timidity and bear scars from the battles they didn’t fight in a loss of self-respect.
Elon Musk has called off his takeover of Twitter, citing failures to provide information on fake accounts, setting up a legal battle with the company which wants to make him go through with it.
