Outrage at free speech leads to censorship
When you replace what you can’t say with what you have to say you have the same outcome — censorship, writes
IT’S BEEN another bad few months for free speech. The recent treatment of the author John Boyne on twitter earlier this year illuminated the extent to which free speech is really up against it in today’s world. Such was the virulent and unalloyed attacks on Mr Boyne he decided to remove his twitter account. And what was it he wrote to stir the hornet’s nest of social media? Well, he wrote a book through the lens of a trans person. ‘It wasn’t his story to tell’ was the impecunious logic of one of those dissenting voices. (As far as I’m aware Mr Boyne wasn’t a young Jewish boy in Auschwitz either, how dare he tell that story...)
