No-one's human rights were abused when Lego decided to stop giving away free toys with the Daily Mail. To suggest otherwise is to fundamentally misrepresent what human rights are about: huffingtonpost.co.uk/richard-wilson…
Big brands are free to choose where they do & don't advertise - & customers have every right to seek to influence those advertising choices. There is nothing in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that obliges advertisers to subsidize toxic media: un.org/en/universal-d… 
Elements of the UK media have often sought to appropriate the right to free speech - with the likes of TalkRadio even marketing themselves as "the home of free speech". It's time for an honest debate about how accurate these claims are...
There has long been a concern that - far from upholding free speech - the behaviour of some parts of the UK media has been having a "chilling effect" on the basic human right to freedom of expression: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Way back in 2012, one migrant rights group told the Leveson Inquiry "We feel completely silenced and unprotected and unable to take part in the public debate" due to the threat of being targeted by the UK media: webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140122164441…
Controversial UK media channel TalkRadio claims to be "the home of free speech" - yet here's one of their lead commentators demanding that someone be deprived of UK citizenship for expressing a view that he disagrees with...
https://twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1367419442016251908
And while the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says nothing about toxic media being entitled to advertising revenue, it does stipulate that "No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality": un.org/en/universal-d…
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