A student has been fired from a position with a “free speech” society and as assistant editor of a university journal for so-called “transphobia” after sharing an article and comment reading “women don’t have penises”.
More than half a million people have signed a petition calling for the right wing activist Tommy Robinson to be freed from jail, in just a few days.
Right-wing activist and citizen journalist Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 13 months after breaking contempt of court laws.
The UK is wallowing at number 40 out of 180 countries on the 2018 World Press Freedom Index, between Trinidad and Tobago and Burkina Faso, amid a “climate of hostility towards the media”.
Radical feminist group Sister Supporter has won a fight to ban people praying and offering help to women near abortion clinics in North London, claiming it is “just the beginning” of outlawing pro-life direct action across the UK.
A vegan who wrote on Facebook that she had “zero sympathy” for a butcher killed by an Islamic terrorist in France has been convicted under terror laws and given a suspended sentence.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been slammed for flying to a liberal arts festival in Texas in the midst of a violent crime wave in his city, to argue that national government should focus on pressuring social media firms to increase censorship.
Labour shadow minister Andrew Gwynne has suggested the party could ban foreign-owned newspapers if his party seizes power, without specifically ruling out online outlets such as Breitbart.
The Prime Minister is reportedly ready to agree to the creation of a “rapid response” government unit to fight perceived fake news.
A government watchdog is expected to demand changes in the law meaning social media platforms can be harshly punished and sued if they fail to delete content considered hateful, extremist, or racist.
A small group of left-wing campaigners are attempting to limit what newspapers report about immigration, Islam, and transgenderism, successfully “bullying” business into withdrawing ads from publications they don’t agree with.
Universities must uphold free speech and open debate or face fines and be blacklisted by a new higher education regulator, the government had revealed.
A British University has blocked an academic studying a reported surge in people regretting transgender surgery, claiming a “social media” backlash to the “politically incorrect” research could harm the institution.
The European Parliament has been accused of trying to “criminalise” pro-life views and opposition abortion, after passing a paper describing restricting abortion as “violence” and demanding “all the Member States to guarantee… legal abortion.”
PARIS (AP) — France’s top constitutional court has struck down a contentious law that that handed down jail time for consulting “terrorist websites,” saying it infringed on the ability of people to communicate freely.
Facebook has launched new features in Germany to counter so-called “fake news” after authorities claimed such stories could help populists in this year’s elections and threatened to sue the social media firm.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has held a “public consultation” and issued “revised” guidelines on “hate crimes” and “transphobia”, which are likely to result in ever increasing numbers of people being dragged through court for speech crimes.
A Eurosceptic member of the Finnish parliament has been criminalised and fined for posting an anti-Islam Facebook post on his personal page.
A ‘journalist’ and lecturer in science journalism who accused Nobel laureate Sir Tim Hunt of “sexism”, after he told a joke, has left her university post claiming that she was pushed out.
The unelected executive arm of the European Union (EU) is threatening to escalate from “non-legislative” action if Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube do not censor what it considers “illegal” online speech within 24 hours.
Angela Merkel has claimed public opinion is being “manipulated” on the internet, and said that “fake news” websites and “trolls” could influence the approaching German elections.
The National Secular Society (NSS) has said Muslims are creating a “special category” to protect Islam from criticism in the UK, and the press and British institutions have “internalised [a] de facto blasphemy law” after a gymnast was banned from competition after “mocking” the religion.
A British gymnast and Olympic champion has been banned from the sport for two months after appearing to ‘mock’ Islam in a leaked private video.
A double Olympic silver medallist has lost sponsors and is facing the threat of being suspended or even expelled by British Gymnastics after seemingly ‘mocking’ Islam in a leaked video.
The UK’s public prosecutor has demanded social media users who post “photoshopped” images and memes should face jail, as well as those who incite “virtual mobs” because they are “opposed to that person’s opinions”.
A high court judge has been slammed for giving special protection to a strict Islamic school, which is trying to quash a highly critical Ofsted report court, forcing the press to censor its name and location.
A German regional mayor and member of Angela Merkel’s conservative party has been forced to apologise after posting a picture of a cucumber which looks like an Islamic burka on Facebook.
