News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Legal challenges are forcing councils to reconsider their use of Public Spaces Protection Orders, often dubbed 'busybody charters', which allow them to impose fines for activities such as loitering and swearing.
2024 may be the last chance to stamp out service withdrawals for dissenting views, given that Labour is likely to win the next election.
Under the seemingly virtuous guise of Environmental, Social, and Governance criteria, U.K. businesses are being nudged towards a new woke decision-making paradigm.
Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned PayPal to stop trying to foist its woke views on the British public by censoring accounts of people and organisations that don’t share those views.
Forty two MPs, including a former leader of the Conservative Party, have written to the Business Secretary and the First Secretary of the Treasury urging them to do something about out-of-control, censorship-happy PayPal.
PayPal has closed the accounts of the Daily Sceptic and the Free Speech Union, a new low in Big Tech’s war on free speech. Not only can you not express certain views, you can’t defend people’s right to express them.
An Oxford College has apologised for banning a Christian group at the behest of an outrage mob after a joint campaign by the Free Speech Union and Christian Concern. The ban has now been lifted.
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