Woke 'cancel culture' is a form of bullying and 'no platforming' an attack on free speech, pupils will be taught

Pupils will be taught that 'cancel culture' is a form of bullying and 'no platforming' an attack on our freedoms.

As part of the Government's drive to protect freedom of speech, secondary school students will learn that people with controversial opinions should be respected.

In Department for Education training manuals, teachers are instructed to tell pupils that the 'cancel culture' which has taken root at many universities – where individuals call for a boycott of a person or company whose views they don't agree with, in the hope they lose their job or clients – is not part of a 'tolerant and free society'.

The move appears to be a direct response to incidents where mainstream speakers, including former home secretary Amber Rudd, have been blocked from speaking at universities by political opponents.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8774625/Woke-cancel-culture-form-bullying-pupils-taught.html

Good... And about bloody time too!

Have to say, I have no problem with this. Time to get back to the old-school way of doing things -- hear what people have to say and use your own freedom of expression in turn.

Only thing is -- as long as we have social media that depends upon its own audience for content, we'll have companies that own these media that will decide they don't want to be a platform for some people. And we really have to be fine with that, because freedom of speech when it comes to media and social media applies to publishers, not to content creators.

Perhaps the solution to no-platforming, online at least, is to create a decentralized social network similiar to file sharing networks.

Didgee wrote:Pupils will be taught that 'cancel culture' is a form of bullying and 'no platforming' an attack on our freedoms.

As part of the Government's drive to protect freedom of speech, secondary school students will learn that people with controversial opinions should be respected.

In Department for Education training manuals, teachers are instructed to tell pupils that the 'cancel culture' which has taken root at many universities – where individuals call for a boycott of a person or company whose views they don't agree with, in the hope they lose their job or clients – is not part of a 'tolerant and free society'.

The move appears to be a direct response to incidents where mainstream speakers, including former home secretary Amber Rudd, have been blocked from speaking at universities by political opponents.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8774625/Woke-cancel-culture-form-bullying-pupils-taught.html

about time, all opinions should be heard and judged accordingly.