Re:PayPal closes account of UK's Free Speech Union without e...
by nibbleshifter on Thursday September 22, 2022 @07:19PM
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> It sounds like a bunch of folk > that are butthurt private venues don't want to listen to their racist, homophobic, or transphobic rhetoric.
Basically this.
Students Unions have the absolute right to refuse to platform people (and to oppose their platforming by the institution in which they operate), if those people being given a platform runs contrary to the wishes of the student body the Union represents.
Nobody has a right to anyone else's platform. Making people platform your views is coerced speech.
Basically this.
Students Unions have the absolute right to refuse to platform people (and to oppose their platforming by the institution in which they operate), if those people being given a platform runs contrary to the wishes of the student body the Union represents.
Nobody has a right to anyone else's platform. Making people platform your views is coerced speech.