Was in England last week and fired some editorial broadsides against the British online censorship apparatus, which I share here for my regular readers.
The first was a piece in Pirate Wires coauthored with my friend Allen Farrington (paywalled, free two-week trial though, worth signing up as the content is great):
The second, a GB News spot explaining my 2020 proposal for a UK Free Speech Act:
Given current events, this is the first of a lot more I’m going to have to say about UK censorship over the coming months. It’s really refreshing to see the level of interest in reforming free speech law in the UK, which is the highest I have ever seen it.
For context, I’ve been tracking this issue very closely since 2010; the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporated the European Convention into domestic law and operates as the foundational law on freedom of speech in the United Kingdom today, entered into force in 2000, with many of the foundational precedents at appellate level which enable censorship by first instance judges today (Norwood, Abdul, and Hammond) being decided in the first decade of the 21st century.
