thearticle.com/maya-forstater… "Forstater’s solicitor, Peter Daly, observed:“Social media platforms ought urgently to take advice on whether they are impermissibly suppressing European speech and thought with a Californian scold’s bridle".”
"Underscoring Forstater’s case is a wider cultural phenomenon: the export of US values to the UK...
...To the generation that has come of age with iPhones in their hands, the social media guidelines of US companies are more relevant than the right to freedom of belief, speech and expression as enshrined in European law...
...From BLM and the decriminalisation of the sex industry to trans politics, the pet concerns of Silicon Valley’s technocrats have flooded smaller markets."
"The influence of the US on ideology can be heard in the language used by British transgender activists. Not only do they seek to rehabilitate the odious term “queer”, but conversations revolve around access to “bathrooms” (by which it is fair to assume they mean lavatories)...
... and “locker rooms”. Phrases first popularised in America, such as “top surgery” (instead of “mastectomies”) have taken hold even of the NHS."
"Last week’s judgement was a small check on the cultural imperialism of the US woke elite. But the platforms on which dissenting views can be expressed are shrinking...
...if action is not taken to break-up the ideological stranglehold of American technocrats, opinions like those of Forstater will not just be unspeakable: they will be unthinkable."
The above thread is the words of @jo_bartosch
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