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The new front in the war on free speech.
By Freddie Attenborough
The Free Speech Union has been demonetised by US payments company PayPal for daring to stand up for free speech and freedom of expression. PayPal UK, the company whose Twitter banner proudly proclaims that it is ‘open for all’, has now permanently shut the accounts of the Free Speech Union, as well as the personal account of the organisation’s co-founder and General Secretary, Toby Young, and Toby’s news website, the Daily Sceptic, without prior warning, meaningful explanation or recourse to a proper appeals process.
So how did we get here – to a world in which a financial intermediary like PayPal can so casually close the account of the Free Speech Union, an organisation set up to defend people’s right to free speech, and that does so without taking sides on the issues that those people are speaking about?
The fact is that the relatively recent digitalisation of financial transactions has placed a vast amount of powe...
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