The Conservative Party Stands at a Crossroads Following Boris Johnson's Resignation

I'm not agreeing necessarily with the conservative platform of it, but definitely anything that seems to attack the individual freedoms. Under the legislation, the Secretary of State will be granted the power to designate categories of speech as 'harmful' The government insists this will not put us on a path to censorship. In fact, it claims that the bill will actually strengthen free speech. But when legal speech is designated as harmful by the state, we all know what social media firms will do. They'll err on the side of censorship, not least because the government could slap them with huge fines or even prison sentences if they do not.

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