PayPal and other finance companies could be banned from blocking the accounts of campaign groups for political reasons under a new law being proposed by MPs that the Government is said to be "likely to accept".
In the official launch episode of our new podcast, the Weekly Sceptic, we discuss Lee Cain's attachment to lockdowns, whether or not Rings of Power is woke, the suppression of ivermectin and Israel's vaccine data shame.
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.
Jonathan Sumption has written a splendid piece for the Spectator, explaining exactly what's wrong with the Online Safety Bill and its creation of a new category of speech which is ‘legal but harmful’.
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 this week's London Calling, the talking points are climate change, the Conservative leadership election, psychedelic drugs, and whether the global liberal elite are misguided do-gooders or just plain evil.
In a major victory for free speech, the Online Safety Bill has been put on hold until the Autumn and may well never see the light of day again. This is, by some distance, the best news of the year.
A group of senior Conservative figures, including Lord Frost, have written to Nadine Dorries urging her to ditch the 'legal but harmful' clause from the Online Safety Bill.
Lord Frost is one of three ex-Cabinet ministers who've warned of the threat the Online Safety Bill poses to free speech. "A Conservative Government should not be putting this... in to law," he says.
Full Fact has been lobbying MPs to include "health misinformation" in the Online Safety Bill, forcing websites to censor content declared misinformation by sites like itself. But such sites are far from infallible.
