Jodie Ginsberg is the Chief Executive of Index Censorship
Jodie Ginsberg
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We @IndexCensorship are seriously concerned about apparent rise in police intervention on issues of legal speech in UK, particularly apparent confusion between speech that social media platforms might choose to outlaw under their terms of service and legally permissible speech.
Twitter's "hateful conduct" policy and confusion about what and is not permissible under terms of service does not help. But, more broadly, the "you can't say that" mantra is morphing from online to offline and impacting the way speech is policed.
We are discussing this with @Twitter and have raised with @Law_Commission as it reviews hate crime law, and with @HumanRightsCtte. We will also raise with @PoliceChiefs.
We're considering how we can reform laws on "gross offence" etc.