A university, a TV station, a magazine - any platform - necessarily, selects whom it features. It isn’t a denial of far-right loons’ free speech. None of us have a “right” to a particular audience. Your free speech does not confer on anyone else an obligation to listen. #r4today
Classic example of this misconception. Ok, then. Let’s explore this: I demand to address all of Durham university, next Monday. Is it a denial of my free speech that they’re under no obligation to acquiesce?
You no more have a “right” to address a university than I have a right to demand the Telegraph prints an article of mine, every time they print one by Johnson, rebutting him. FFS it’s not a tricky concept. Your right to speak does not equal an obligation on others to amplify you.
The far right:
NO UNIVERSITY HAS A RIGHT TO DENY ME A PLATFORM TO SAY WHATEVER I WANT.
Also, the far right:
A BAKERY HAS A RIGHT TO REFUSE TO WRITE WHAT YOU WANT ON *YOUR* CAKE.
NO UNIVERSITY HAS A RIGHT TO DENY ME A PLATFORM TO SAY WHATEVER I WANT.
Also, the far right:
A BAKERY HAS A RIGHT TO REFUSE TO WRITE WHAT YOU WANT ON *YOUR* CAKE.
Feck right off
