Topic: Toby Young
Toby Young’s advocacy for free speech highlights the growing trend of censorship in various institutions, including universities and online platforms. Recent actions, such as arrests for ‘offensive’ speech and the banning of organizations like the Free Speech Union, illustrate the challenges faced by those defending individual liberties against cancel culture and speech restrictions. This situation highlights the urgent need to protect free expression and privacy in the face of increasing surveillance and control.
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UK Police Make 10,000 Arrests Over “Offensive” Online Speech
In a nation where 90 percent of crimes go unsolved, the real emergency seems to be someone being offensive online.
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PayPal backtracks on fining users for “misinformation,” calls it an “error”
But it remains to be seen if PayPal will punish users in other ways, like closing accounts.
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PayPal to expand its speech restriction rules in November
An updated policy that pulls financial services from those that don’t adhere to its arbitrary speech limitations.
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PayPal bans the Free Speech Union, the Daily Sceptic, and Toby Young
Young described PayPal’s actions as “a new low in Big Tech’s war on free speech.”
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College apologizes for sending a photo of Prince Philip in email after “left-wing” staff complain
The staff complained about “sexism” and “racism.”
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Some practical ways to protect yourself from cancel culture
? Four cultural, technical, and legal solutions that will strip the power from and shift the culture against digital outrage…
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YouTube removes video from Free Speech Union’s Toby Young after he criticized coronavirus lockdown measures
Another coronavirus video goes down for “violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines.”
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Toby Young announces Free Speech Union as an antidote to cancel culture
The union aims to support those who have been wrongfully ousted for their free expression.