Free speech campaigners welcome Boris’s war on woke after PM reveals cancel culture victims denied platforms by universities can now seek compensation in courts
The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill will aim to end the so-called no platforming of speakers and academics on campuses
Regulator the Office for Students will get the power to fine institutions and student unions for breaching new duties
People who believe their freedom of speech has been impinged will also get the power to go to court to seek financial compensation
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Censorship fears over trans stifling academic debate
Censorship fears over trans stifling academic debate
11 Mar 2021
Academics and students have voiced concern about a cancel culture, which they say is silencing gender-critical views.
They have used a new anonymous online forum, known as GC Academia Network, to post their experiences of the toxic effect radical gender ideology is having on academic freedom.
Founders of the site argue that an “inability to talk about sex-based rights” in universities is preventing an “open and critical engagement with theories of sex and gender”.
Cancelled
Among the stories shared on the website by university staff and students are fears of reprisals, incidents of no-platforming and accusations of transphobia suffered by those who have spoken out against the radical claims of transgender ideology.
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