Claire Fox @Fox_Claire@respublicae.eu

Oh, going to try and get to this event on #Prevent. @NotThatBigIan is always worth listening to. Weds 17 May.
RT @PhilipIngMBE: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maintaining-momentum-the-prevent-review-and-future-threats-tickets-623670253517 - this will be an interesting event with @NotThatBigIan

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Fair comment from @Tom_Slater_, Free speech is freedom to criticise ie engaging critically with opinions we agree & DISAGREE with; using more speech rather than shutting down speech; recognising we should debate not cancel. It does not mean only one side of that debate allowed.
RT @Tom_Slater_: The anti-vaxxers talk a big game about free speech but they really are the biggest snowflakes out there. We run one piece criticising their boy Bridgen — who has compared t…

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No official Inside the Lords this week, because I've been too busy -ahem -Inside the Lords with #OnlineSafetyBill, which may have started with good intention of protecting children online, but so much of it will sweep away adults' rights. See more here: https://clairefox.substack.com/p/challenging-the-online-safety-bill

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Simone de Beauvoir FGS. New Puritanism has no boundaries/common sense/sublety in judgement: "The French writer and philosopher...was dropped from a list of female candidates to have their sculptures placed in the Old Library in Trinity College Dublin". https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/04/29/simone-de-beauvoir-dropped-from-tcd-statue-plan-because-of-reputational-concerns/

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Thanks @GBNews for letting me explain this awful story: convicted paedophile Clive Bundy abused his daughter for years. Due out on parole, he's declaed he's a woman called CLAIRE FOX. Yuk. But main victims: his daughter Ceri Lee & justice- this is an attempt at erasing his crimes
RT @GBNEWS: 'His daughter wouldn't have known if the victim liaison officer hadn't told her...it's an attempt at erasing his crimes.'

Former MEP Claire Fox discusses Clive Bundy, who was…

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MP ‘uncancelled’ by Reading University students (and an apology from VC). MORE OF THIS PLEASE! "Now the students have reversed their decision and invited Mr Sunderland to address them. The university’s vice-chancellor has also pledged to investigate." https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/tory-mp-uncancelled-by-reading-university-students/ar-AA1arr3N?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=285d437a67684a858524b09b54498556&ei=26

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One thing that Rishi's government certainly has scrapped is its backbone. Or any principled commitment to sovereign law making that millions voted for in 2016. I'm not surprised, of course, but jeez, it's galling to watch Tories chip away at spirit of Brexit, in plain sight.
RT @ftukpolitics: UK government U-turns on plan to scrap or revise all EU law https://www.ft.com/content/ce458b68-b0ea-453f-8730-a174256e7c4e

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A thread on some of my speeches and questions on the #OnlineSafetyBill today - discussing who defines harm, what Big Tech can censor and the prospect of ending encrypted messaging🪡...

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This looks like a great @SpeechUnion event.
RT @SpeechUnion: The FSU's next event will be "Blasphemy law by the back door?" Join us in-person (or online if you’re an FSU member) in London on 10th May from 7:30pm onwards.

For tickets, click the link!

🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fsu-in-depth-blasphemy-law-by-the-back-door-tickets-595874335177

@Emma_A_Webb | @BenBarryJones | @rakibehsan | @NatSecSoc https://t.co/grpbEuUEsy

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We face similar illiberal interventions via #OnlineSafetyBill, which some of us will aim to resist
RT @hollyanndoan: Canadians are uneasy with letting gov’t decide what qualifies as fake news, says in-house @cse_cst research: “Many participants expressed reservations about the Government of Canada telling Canadians what is true or false.” https://www.blacklocks.ca/mistrust-fed-truth-monitors/ #cdnpoli https://t.co/4O32VuetBg

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Thanks @roseveniceallan - agree re using it for good now - to highlight the dangers of the loophole
RT @roseveniceallan: I cannot stop thinking about how that disgusting man has stolen Claire Fox’s name. I hate how that must feel for her. We must use this outrage to end this legal loophole that protects the most dangerous men in society, once and for all.

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Yesterday I made a speech on #OnlineSafetyBill raising the problems that enforcing age verification might cause - for anonymity and security - and that we should trust user self-regulation without excessive regulatory interference.
https://youtu.be/YQq3ynv-jG8

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Later I summed up some of the arguments - bi-partisan response from government & Labour. Disappointing, but not surprising. Far too much unanimity RE whipping up fears of online horrors with too little regard for protecting the virtues of civil liberties:
https://youtu.be/ob4ZZcAdBMM

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I argued for exemptions for smaller platforms like Wikipedia/Mumsnet from #OnlineSafetyBill's huge, red-tape regs. I'll be trying to find ways to make the case for more choice/freedom & to fight off stultifying impact of the gov's plans for online speech:
https://youtu.be/N5YOHks59vs

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A spontaneous response to the issue of blameless flat owners still being made to pay for building safety remediation while stuck in unsellable flats...
https://youtu.be/R8y6MwDREmw

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But if you think free speech is TAME, surely you haven't grasped its radical history or its potential. This "gate-way to far right" is a new go-to argument for excusing censorship, bans, cancel culture. Then anyone opposing sneered at as racist "cretins" & 1950s bigots. Shameful
RT @Care2much18: 'Free speech' is an insidious gateway to the far-right, as it's a tame concept most support.

Thing is those who make 'free speech' their entire identity, usually a bunch …

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Will be interesting how this EU gets tough on migrants plan will play out in debate /alleged plot to block new illegal migration bill in @UKHouseofLords as reported in press.
RT @POLITICOEurope: EU lawmakers today gave the green light to a central plank of the EU’s flagship migration package.

This endorses new rules to speed up the return of migrants who entered Europe without permission and prevent them from traveling within the EU.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-lawmakers-endorse-pact-revise-migration-rules/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social

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Shock, horror - a balanced, non-partisan review of @GoodwinMJ's book, that itself makes some astute observations about that New Elite controversy. I'd expect nothing less from @tinastowell
RT @tinastowell: I've reviewed @GoodwinMJ's book - Values, Voice and Virtue - for @TheHouseMag. https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/unites-us-now-baroness-stowell-reviews-values-voice-virtue-new-british-politics-matthew-goodwin

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Interesting thread on blue tick saga from @LiamDeacon. Tend to agree (and I say that as someone who has just lost mine).
RT @LiamDeacon: I for one am happy to see the end of the blue tick regime.

Content moderators in California should not get to decide what voices across science, economics, politics—and everything else and in between—are “official”.

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Yesterday was the first day of Committee debate on the Online Safety Bill. I reminded fellow Lords that safety as an end point can be a threat to freedom - I fear many unintentional consequences...
https://youtu.be/CrP0Br4L4Lc

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