Delingpole: Why I'm Backing Toby Young's Free Speech Union

On the discharge party in London, Douglas Murray declared that "free speech is like oxygen -- you only notice it when it's starting to run out."
At the launch party in London, Douglas Murray declared that "free speech is like oxygen -- you only notice it when it's starting to run out."Original article
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  1. "Venezuela’s freedom of speech was mutilated long ago. It wasn’t done overnight but carried out through a series of incremental steps". (October 20, 2019)
  2. "Rush Limbaugh spoke on his radio show on Wednesday about how tech giants, including Facebook and Twitter, have censored Breitbart News". (July 31, 2020)
  3. "Amazon has terminated its hosting contract with Parler, claiming that language users posted to the social media platform might "incite violence". (January 16, 2021)
  4. "Facebook's new oversight board, commonly referred to as its "Supreme Court," will be tasked with determining which content should be removed from the site. It will be staffed with leftist professors from some of America's top law schools". (June 23, 2020)
  5. "Facebook has blacklisted the conservative group "Patriot Prayer," as well as the group's leader, Joey Gibson. The move by Facebook arrives in the wake of a Patriot Prayer member being murdered in Portland by an Antifa rioter". (September 5, 2020)
  6. "Professor James Flynn of the University of Otago in New Zealand claims that his upcoming book on free speech was "banned" by its publisher due to its content". (September 24, 2019)
  7. "BLEXIT founder Candace Owens will sue Facebook over its "blatant censorship" after the social media platform demonetized her page following her comments about senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) swearing into congress in 2017 as an "Indian-American". (August 19, 2020)
  8. "Senator Mike Lee (R-AZ) asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing why it took the social media platform two weeks to correct the bogus censorship of a pro-life advertisement correctly calling out Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris' (D-CA) pro-abortion stances". (November 17, 2020)
  9. "Attorney General William Barr judged that social media platforms are "engaged in censorship" and are behaving more like "publishers". (June 11, 2020)
  10. "Novelist Salman Rushdie led condemnations Monday of Roald Dahl's children's books being re-edited for a modern audience". (February 21, 2023)
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