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<blockquote data-quote="Which Tyler" data-source="post: 1038710" data-attributes="member: 73592"><p>So, going back to this, the Universities Minister was interviewed and it was put to her that since Holocaust denial is legal speech in the UK, if a university refused to allow a Holocaust denier to speak at their campus, under the government proposals, that speaker could sue. She agreed.</p><p><a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-minister-says-universities-face-24102126" target="_blank">https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-minister-says-universities-face-24102126</a></p><p></p><p>The Prime Minister and Education Minister then went on record to insist that this was not the case, and that they would never ever permit Holocaust denial on campuses.</p><p><a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/kate-green-gavin-williamson-charlotte-nichols-education-secretary-higher-education-b934963.html" target="_blank">https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/kate-green-gavin-williamson-charlotte-nichols-education-secretary-higher-education-b934963.html</a></p><p></p><p>This means one of two things: either the government are about to make Holocaust denial illegal - unlikely, since they've said nothing about it in their manifesto or the Queen's Speech - or they haven't thought their 'free speech' proposal through and are only now realising what it actually means. (Much more likely as Johnson has form on not considering the implications of his policies.)</p><p></p><p>I look forward to the government's detailed guidance on exactly what legal speech we have to permit and what legal speech we are under no circumstances to permit, and how to tell the difference.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Which Tyler, post: 1038710, member: 73592"] So, going back to this, the Universities Minister was interviewed and it was put to her that since Holocaust denial is legal speech in the UK, if a university refused to allow a Holocaust denier to speak at their campus, under the government proposals, that speaker could sue. She agreed. [URL]https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-minister-says-universities-face-24102126[/URL] The Prime Minister and Education Minister then went on record to insist that this was not the case, and that they would never ever permit Holocaust denial on campuses. [URL]https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/kate-green-gavin-williamson-charlotte-nichols-education-secretary-higher-education-b934963.html[/URL] This means one of two things: either the government are about to make Holocaust denial illegal - unlikely, since they've said nothing about it in their manifesto or the Queen's Speech - or they haven't thought their 'free speech' proposal through and are only now realising what it actually means. (Much more likely as Johnson has form on not considering the implications of his policies.) I look forward to the government's detailed guidance on exactly what legal speech we have to permit and what legal speech we are under no circumstances to permit, and how to tell the difference. [/QUOTE]
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