Justine stands up for FWR in The Times

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Justine is quoted in The Times today saying that TRAs are pressuring advertisers to withdraw from the site but they’re willing to take the hit to keep the discussion open. It’s very heartening after the threads of the last few days re FWR being hidden and the worries about this space being censored.

to @JustineMumsnet - thank you.

Thank you Justine and @MNHQ for making a stand - such a relief

I also want to add I have emailed Accor the group that owns the Mercure Group including Mercure Cardiff and advised them I will no longer do any business with them, business or personal, and will advise my friends to do the same.

FYI They hosted a sex offender on their premises, who has now been banned from all spas in Wales - haven't a link but it was on Twitter - shame they didn't have more safeguarding measures in place …….

Thanks Justine

Thank you so much Justine and everyone at MN who work so hard to help women and support free speech - you are amazing

Thank you, genuinely.

They went low, @MNHQ went high.

I will boycott anyone who withdraws advertising, Justine.

Umm, except Waitrose.

Well done Mumsnet. And Andrew Gillian too, according to the byline.

Well done to MNHQ and also to the Times - the bastions of free speech in this mad world we appear to be inhabiting.

What everybody else said. Thanks to MN, and yes advertisers do have a sensible think.

Thank you Justine

Thanks Justine!

Right, off to find the AIBU thread... I haven't ventured out of FWR for about 6 months.

TRAs have their whole lives invested in their identity. Their activism is their life. This is what makes them extremists. They are so emotionally involved in it and their community is very inward looking and narrowly focused. Many are particularly tech and social media savvy, to a level which is far above average.

Few here have that luxury of time and none of us are invested in the same way.

I hope that advertisers are aware of this dynamic. The little echo chamber they are in, might have considerable influence and power which is disproportionate to its numbers, but its still an echo chamber.

Thank you Justine

Agreeing with Red too.

Amazing Justine

Thank you so much. Regardless of your view on the matter free speech matters!

Thanks Justine & mnhq. Having a platform for free speech is such a vital cornerstone against totalitarian thought.

Thanks Justine.

This is absolutely brilliant, and very brave of Justine.
Times are a changing......

Justine I bloody love you - think I'm going to go buy a physical copy of the Sunday Times this morning!

Thank you Justine, Andrew Gillian, Janice Turner and The Times.

So is FWR unmuted?

Thank you Justine.

I wondered why feminism wasn't showing up in the active threads, I didn't realise it had been taken out.

Why is that?

Advertisers aren't stupid, they know a boycott by Mumsnet users will damage them a hell of a lot more than a boycott by a bunch of narcissistic violent yobbos and blue haired submissive girls who are desperate for approval. None of them have got any money and the blue-haired girls will grow out of their nonsense once they grow up and their heads hit the glass ceiling they don't realise still exists.

I didn't realise M&S were allowing men in women's changing rooms. Fuck, I'm going to have to boycott them, aren't I? And their food shop is in walking distance.

TRAs have their whole lives invested in their identity. Their activism is their life. This is what makes them extremists. They are so emotionally involved in it and their community is very inward looking and narrowly focused. Many are particularly tech and social media savvy, to a level which is far above average.

Very true.

And thank you for defending us public, Justine.

Thank you Justine

Thank you Mumsnet for protecting free speech.