The previous government’s legislation on freedom of speech may have facilitated “hate speech including Holocaust denial” to spread on university campuses, the Education Secretary has said.
Bridget Phillipson announced that the Government would be pausing the implementation of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 to consider other options including its potential repeal.
The Act was introduced by the previous Tory government and sought to place a duty to “secure” and “promote the importance of” freedom of speech and could have seen universities and student unions fined for failing to do so.
Ms Phillipson told the Commons during education questions that the Act had been put on hold “precisely because we believe in academic freedom, and it is therefore crucial that the legal framework is workable”. The Education Secretary added that the Government is “speaking with a range of stakeholders” and that “no options are off the table” in protecting academic freedom.
They say that like it's the end of the world.....
Maybe their world is built on the holocaust.
Same guys who gave our ancestors the Dark Ages
Yeah, I wonder who the stakeholders are, its a word that seems to have popped up recently, Uncle Klaus springs to mind.
This is what happens when you allow a constitutional monarchy continue to hold power over The People. It's like eating a sugar coated shit sandwich. At the end of the meal, it's still shit and the aftertaste is still horrible.
OMG, you mean somebody might have actually said something that Offended someone else?
Quick, call out the army! Silence these damned Free Speechers at once! They're a Threat to Our Democracy!
The fact the so called "Holocaust" was nothing like we were told LED TO "HOLOCAUST DENIAL" on campus.
People are removing their blinders!