This time on #SWYSI we are joined by barrister & legal commentator Francis Hoar, author of "In Protection of Freedom of Speech", a report commissioned by Laurence Fox's "Reclaim Party" and which includes a foreword by former Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption. 

According to Mr. Hoar, a right to freedom of expression should be enshrined in UK law to counter the rising tide of “cancel culture” and other forms of woke-inspired censorship and discrimination. His report comes as the government propose an ‘Online Safety Bill’ which would require social media companies to censor ‘harmful’ speech that might offend adults, even if no criminal offence was committed.

In his report Mr. Hoar proposes three key reforms designed to give UK citizens the same protection as the First Amendment to the US Constitution:

1. The police should lose the power to investigate so-called “non-crime hate incidents” and the Scottish Hate Crime Bill should be scrapped

2. Websites should be prevented from censoring content posted by users unless a criminal offence or civil wrong is committed

3. Employers should no longer be able to sack people for their speech

The report may be downloaded here: https://reclaimparty.co.uk/wp-content...

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Online Safety Bill Is A Fundamental Threat To Free Speech & Must Be Opposed.

Our guest this week on #SWYSI is long-standing BBC Journalist Robin Aitken MBE. Robin is the author of "Can We Trust the BBC?" And "The Noble Liar", in which he examines why and how the BBC is biased against conservatism. Robin was the first guest on #SWYSI in January 2019 and so it is a great pleasure to welcome him back just over a year later to reflect on the scenario we now face: a conservative government with a strong majority unwilling to play the BBC game and a clear desire to shake up the institution.

2.18 Robin Aitken: BBC Bias - Distorting the truth

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Online Safety Bill Is A Fundamental Threat To Free Speech & Must Be Opposed.

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