🚨 WIN for free speech in Australia — and for @BillboardChris. I first met Chris as this was starting out and it was immediately clear they’d picked the wrong person to censor! The eSafety Commissioner lost on nearly every legal point. Here’s what happened, and why it matters: 🧵 In Feb 2024, @BillboardChris shared a @DailyMail article highlighting the appointment of a transgender activist to a WHO panel of experts. He criticised the appointment, and used biologically accurate pronouns.
@eSafetyOffice called it “cyber abuse” and ordered X to take it down

🧵This morning, a woman was convicted in Britain for holding a sign saying:
“Here to talk, if you want.”
Let that sink in. Here's how it happened: 👇 1/
Livia stood silently in public, in an area covered by a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO).
That PSPO bans “engaging in an act of...disapproval...[of] abortion… by any means”, including “prayer” and “counselling”.
Yes, really.

🔴 When a case goes before a court, everyone hopes to win. But of course, not everyone does. When you don’t, what you should be able to expect is a fair hearing and an understandable – if not agreeable – decision. #FreeSpeech Today, the @UKSupremeCourt handed down a decision that will be very difficult to understand for many.