Well, I'm glad they've distanced themselves from 'Terfblocker'.
That was so, so inappropriate. It should never have been seen as an appropriate thing for any organisation to have been associated with.
It was more than censorship.
It created a means by which critical people were barred from networks of communication. I mean, really? In a democracy you openly exclude critical listeners/voices from hearing your arguments? And you are applauded and told you are progressive for doing so? You have basically removed scrutiny and debate and contesting voices? And that's progressive?
And along with a significant population who would provide oversight and scrutiny of your communication, you remove their ability to voice objections and communicate oversight.
Ultimately, you create an echo chamber, a communicative network which is now severed from the wider civic network. You've created the conditions, not simply for an echo-chamber, but also for grooming/radicalisation.
Because the capacity for communicative brakes on ideas circulated in that network have been removed.
Needless to say, you've also produced the perfect climate in which norms and boundaries get moved - and in which criminality and abuse can (potentially) flourish unchecked.
And it is SO alarming that it was feminists - and women and male critics who were branded 'TERFs' - that were excluded. In a circular way, to be critical, was to be excluded, thus an 'I progressive' - permitting an unexamined exclusion of criticality under the guise of 'progressivism'.
How the hell did the Green Party allow a misogynistic child-rapist do this in the name of 'progress'?
It's so. So stupid.
Of course such a person would have an interest in silencing critical, non-misogynist people (women mainly).
And that seems to have been done under the auspices of his child's relationship with and role within the Green Party.
It's extremely worrying.
Did these people simply find employing their critical faculties exhausting, so decided to take a holiday from thinking and hand their capacity for thought over to people, such as David Challenor, who had quite disturbed boundaries and ethics?