๐จ STATEMENT
Sir Keir Starmer strong-arming the authorities to prosecute people for imprudent social media posts will have a chilling effect on free speech.
At the Free Speech Union (FSU), we're fighting back.
When Cheshire police arrested a 55 year-old women last week for wrongly identifying the Southport attacker as a Muslim asylum seeker, we stepped in to provide assistance.
We would be amazed if she is charged โ but if she is, we will pay for her defence.
While she may be guilty of spreading misinformation, that isn't (yet) a crime, and it would be hard to charge her with the section 179 false communications offence created by the Online Safety Act, because one of its tests is that "the message conveys information the person knows to be false" โ clearly, this isn't the case here.
Many other people have been getting in touch to seek advice following recent pronouncements that even the act of sharing footage of rioting on social media could be enough to land you with a criminal record.
That's why we've put in place an arrangement with a top firm of criminal lawyers, so if one of our members is contacted by the police in connection with something they've said โ in real-life or online โ about the murder of the three schoolgirls in Southport and the subsequent unrest, we will pay for a telephone consultation about your case and may, at our discretion, pay for a solicitor to attend a police interview, as well as further legal work on your case.
If you're an FSU supporter, now might be a good time to become a member.
Click the link below to join us and help support the work we do, standing up for the speech rights of our 15,500+ members in an increasingly censorious culture.
https://t.co/PBIqWHTibt
The enemies of free speech fight in packs. It's defenders need to band together too.
Join the FSU. Together we can cancel cancel culture.
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