Either here, or in the US, can anyone give me an example of someone fighting for free speech who isn't promoting sinister racial ideas?
Just asking.
By the same token though can you give me examples (in a western democracy) of people with moderate views being overtly censored? Those fighting for free speech are doing so because they are offensive views (to the majority) as a whole.
Wow parler sounds like a lovely place
A far right echo chamber where you can be as bigoted as you like
But I can’t see it working out, all the people who’ve made a career of stirring hate & division can’t outrage anyone!
Fingers crossed, but then you could get the opposite effect where people join it to see what these people are doing, very similar to how Trump has 85 million twitter followers, I assume the majority don't follow him because they agree with him, they follow to see what stupid stuff he is doing!
parler not quite as free as it thinks 😀
https://twitter.com/chrismiller_uk/status/1274956120008908800
Either here, or in the US, can anyone give me an example of someone fighting for free speech who isn’t promoting sinister racial ideas?
Just asking.
Humanists UK have quite a few campaigns for freedom of speech that appear neither sinister or radical. Also not sure that the campaign and ongoing campaigns against lop sided libel laws that impair free speech fit the bill.
Unless you're Arlene Foster and see a campaign to repeal blasphemy laws as radical and subversive.
Footflaps, could she actually oppose the ban – ironically – claiming racism or sexism?
Well as Twitter is a private company, you have no inherent right to use their service.
If she could prove that she has been banned on purely racist or sexist ground them she might have a case - but good luck proving that she wasn't just a racist nut job in breach of their usage terms....
Also as she is in the UK and Twitter is a US company, no idea which juristiction it would fall under and whose laws would apply.
Would be slightly amusing if she did try, lost and ended up being declared bankruct a second time...
Humanists UK have quite a few campaigns for freedom of speech that appear neither sinister or radical
Same goes for Amnesty International. Who ironically/paradoxically* point out that women are effectively being ‘silenced’ by (misogynistic) abuse via Twitter.
*For the hard of thinking
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2018/03/online-violence-against-women-chapter-5/
Looks like she's going to end up in the Bucket of Irrelevancy, and perhaps Nigel will join her.