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XR blockades the conservative press printers bc they disagree w The Sun et al’s stance on climate change. I disagree w XR’s anti-nuclear, degrowth, exaggerate-the-facts stance on climate change. Should I blockade the printers of their books and pamphlets? https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-54038591
Aren’t we supposed to be opposed to the muzzling of climate scientists by Bush, Harper, Abbott when they disagreed with them. Climate activists rightly said at the time that was an infringement of free speech. So why now go and muzzle journalists because you disagree with them?
Boris Johnson is entirely correct here: https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1302217031241138177
Of course though, Johnson is a massive hypocrite. In February, his comms aides tried to exclude unsympathetic journalists from an official govt briefing on UK trade talks w the EU. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/03/political-journalists-boycott-no-10-briefing-after-reporter-ban
Only one thing to do: be militantly consistent in defence of freedom of speech, including freedom of the press, regardless of who tries to censor, right, left or green, Bush, Johnson or Extinction Rebellion.
