'Not only are vaccine passports illiberal, they are also deceptively dangerous,'
@DavidDavisMP says Covid IDs will have the opposite effect of that which is intended.
'It's the job of the politician to say no, we're going to restrain power because the price you demand is just too great...'
@SteveBakerHW on the need to stand up to coercion and rebel against discriminatory & divisive Covid IDs.
'The problem is once we start down this road, we can't peel it back'
@MorrisseyHelena says that vaccine passports will not stop at Covid and we need to resist mission creep.
"You can't take our #civilliberties away and expect us to work for it"
@CGreenUK asks for more cross-party support to defeat Covid IDs and questions the double standards set by the Government.
‘Vaccine passports would lock in the powers that have shifted to the state from the citizen and make it something that would go on forever and that is something that we must resist with every sinew of our bodies’
YouTube removed our video of civil liberties champion @DavidDavisMP's speech against domestic vaccine passports, claiming that it "contradicts expert consensus".
This ought to be a wakeup call that free speech is under severe threat online.
YouTube removed Davis’ speech, filmed at our conference fringe event, for violating its policy on “medical misinformation” but did not specify what content had breached the rules.
YouTube's claim is potentially libellous - Davis' speech was wholly accurate (and brilliant..!).
In the censored speech, @DavidDavisMP promoted vaccine benefits but warned that Covid IDs are “illiberal, demanding that we an ordinary British citizen produce our papers to do something which is normal in our daily lives.”
We document the growth of big tech censorship & explain why Johnson's Online Safety Bill could be the greatest threat to free speech in the UK in living memory.
Far from “reigning in” social media companies, the Government is seeking a share of the extraordinary power to monitor, suppress + censor lawful speech on a scale never seen before.
The Online Safety Bill is disastrous for the future of free speech in the UK.
The Bill gives state backing to foreign companies' terms + conditions, abandoning legal speech standards.
This convergence of big tech + state power is unaccountable & difficult to contain. Once we go down the Orwellian road of online speech control, there will be no going back.
🚨 The House of Lords is now debating *mandatory Covid vaccines* for care home workers after MPs voted to destroy our rights in a shocking snap vote last week.
⬇️More to follow ⬇️
This Statutory Instrument is:
▪️ Muddled
▪️ Confused
▪️ Disjointed
Baroness Wheeler asks for urgent publication of clear and detailed guidance for this seismic vote.
"The Department has instead resorted to lying"
Baroness Noakes (@1SVN) accuses the Department of Health of acting dishonestly after they failed to produce a full impact assessment for Parliamentarians to vote on.