Claire Fox @Fox_Claire@respublicae.eu

This from @danwootton takes a lot of courage. Regardless of what you think of @GBNEWS, attempts at its destruction, vicious demonisation of its employees & even firms who advertise on it, (often from other journalists), is a disgraceful & intolerant betrayal of media diversity.
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GB News: 'There are dark forces out to try and take this brilliant channel down. And that’s because GB News is the biggest threat to the establishment in decades, and they will stop at nothing to destroy us.'
@DanWootton https://t.co/pmNkZNN6DA
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Yesterday, I asked a quick question on crippling service charges for leaseholders. Surely the solution should be not more regulation, but more CONTROL for leaseholder home owners to hire and fire managing agents? https://t.co/X5uQu1ddde

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Fox_Claire/status/1681390499209310208

A thread of speeches and questions on the #OnlineSafetyBill from yesterday on everything from Ofcom powers to media literacy, misinformation units to Big Tech filters. Buckle in...

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Re I worry when the government sneaks in late amendments, such as one giving Ofcom power to remotely access online services/equipment/data. Not even as a last resort - yikes. Surely a threat to privacy and likely to damage SMEs/start-ups and innovation...
https://youtu.be/NcaY1Er0AGg

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Re ...More positively, I was happy to have more transparency RE things like algorithms. Many of us who are gender critical are de-boosted/shadow banned for asserting sex-based rights. We want to see under the bonnet on decisions like that.
https://youtu.be/NcaY1Er0AGg

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Re When it comes to dealing with misinformation, it's all very well saying the solution to 'untruths' is media literacy/fact-checkers/knowing the provenance of information. But I am not convinced this is satisfactory...
https://youtu.be/Hai3EVv0Myg

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Re ...There was impeccable provenance of those who dismissed, for example, the Wuhan lab leak as misinformation; and then discovered that top scientists had bent the truth.
https://youtu.be/Hai3EVv0Myg

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Re I tried to challenge the minister on giving secretary of state powers to require Ofcom to say what it's doing RE misinformation in special circumstances (like public-health pandemics). Hmmm - more law justifying future pressure on Big Tech to censor IMO.
https://youtu.be/nIAcpKzBdYA

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Re On to the government's Counter Disinformation Unit. As the minister demands transparency from Big Tech, can we have transparency on their BTS monitoring of online content that they don't approve of - dubbing it misinformation as an excuse for censorship.
https://youtu.be/FgnWNfO_KZI

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Re At last! Other Lords highlighting threat of the #OnlineSafetyBill to free speech. Demands on Big Tech to remove illegal content will lead to risk-averse removal of all sorts of content. My own amendment attempts to also ensure user-empowerment filtering...
https://youtu.be/TkuGnFuq4sM

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Re ...For example, many people (me included) don't want to encounter racist or sexist abuse. BUT, this is fraught with danger, if Big-Tech filters assume either users are over-sensitive, or if they adopt ideological readings of (for example) racist abuse.
https://youtu.be/TkuGnFuq4sM

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Fox_Claire/status/1681397255398465536

Re That's it for now. If you want to read more analysis of the Online Safety Bill and keep up to date with what I've been doing in the Lords, the best thing to do is to subscribe to the @acadofideas Substack where I post my weekly Inside The Lords:
https://clairefox.substack.com/subscribe

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Fox_Claire/status/1681397258212843528

This really is exciting. Medical science at it's best.
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Daily Mail Online: New drug could spell 'the beginning of the end' for Alzheimer's https://trib.al/JHQo1kR https://t.co/FoFWReBTW3
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This is what proper employment blacklisting looks like. Horrible treatment. Hope she wins her case.
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GB News: Sibyl Ruth joins @AndrewDoyle_Com to discuss why she's taking her former employers to an employment tribunal, with the support of the @SpeechUnion, after she claims she lost work because of her gender-critical views. https://t.co/BBxi4sdPI2
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For those asking about technical process in Lords this week re #IllegalMigrationBill, @edvaizey explains it well on @TimesRadio. What's missing is damage that will be/is alreay beingdone to any faith in institutions if public constantly told "you can't do that. We won't let you"
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Times Radio: “I’m talking here as an ex-Tory because I’ll probably lose the whip now!”
Ed Vaizey reveals the trade secrets of the House of Lords on #TimesRadio
@EdVaizey | @KateEMcCann | @Jack_Blanchard_ https://t.co/sFgQgYPNoL
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Was genuinely shocking to hear that this role even existed. Physician associates, who sit in for GPs but aren't doctors and patients not told. Obvious dangers.
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Philip Banfield 💙: Misdiagnosis: Bereaved mum calls for physician associate role clarity: BBC News For clarity: Physicians Associates &amp; Anaesthetic Associates are NOT doctors. Neither has a medical degree or is in a regulated profession. Both are paid more than many doctors. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-66168798
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Fox_Claire/status/1680157758295793664

This looks like a great event - both sides will be hard fought I am sure. One for @LivingFreedomUK attendees I would have thought, and @acadofideas &amp; @SpeechUnion supporters.
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Alan Jagolinzer: We are pleased to announced a free pre-Cambridge Disinformation Summit event:
Debate on Free Speech Advocacy with @GavanTitley &amp; @ProfDHayes
Wednesday 26 July 2023, 19:30, @cambridgeunion Debate Hall
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Fox_Claire/status/1679931712153763857

He is not wrong. And I sit amongst them...
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Frank Furedi: Wrote this
PROFESSOR FRANK FUREDI: The Lords are trying to sabotage migrant bill https://mol.im/a/12297233 via @MailOnline
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Fox_Claire/status/1679769900028424195

Another #OnlineSafetyBill day. I began with my concerns around the lack of democracy in the Bill - the government tries to avoid saying it is censoring, BUT...
https://youtu.be/cP4VIfutoiA

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Re ...is passing law to give huge powers to an 'independent' regulator (Ofcom) which then forces platforms to remove online content it deems harmful. Smoke and mirrors. #OnlineSafetyBill.

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