"No Platforming Amber Rudd? No Platform was only ever meant to be for fascists -- how did we get here!?" It's actually pretty simple: if you support censorship in some areas it doesn't stay put. That's certainly been the story of No Platform in the UK. 1/9 No Platform for Fascists became the policy of the National Union of Students in the mid 70s, with the support of the Union of Jewish Students among other groups. By the late 70s, Zionists had been added to the blacklist on a number of campuses 2/9 thejc.com/comment/commen…

CAMPUS CENSORSHIP THREAD: This BBC piece is being enthusiastically shared by lecturers and students' union officers who want to pretend #FreeSpeech isn't under attack on campus. It is. And here's why this BBC research is so shoddy 1/10 bbc.co.uk/news/education… spiked's Free Speech University Rankings has for four years assessed policies that limit speech as well as bans on speakers, events and materials by both unis and students’ unions (SUs). In 2018, we found 55% placed explicit restrictions on speech 2/10 spiked-online.com/2018/02/05/the…