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Abortion activists panic over rise in UK pro-life university groups, demand censorship – Lifesite

January 13, 2019 (Society for the Protection of Unborn Children) Pro-abortion campaigners appear alarmed at the recent rise of pro-life university groups across the United Kingdom. Student led group and SPUC collaborator, the Alliance of Pro-life Students (APS) which encourage a culture of life by inspiring and equipping students to bring the culture of life into universities have recently been assisting pro-life university groups. Madeline Page, APS Chief Executive said:Our societies remain autonomous and students are welcome to run their society as they see as most appropriate to their universitys setting.

In 2018, only eight university pro-life societies existed in the UK. This number has increased considerably over the past year with 14 pro-life societies now present on UK campuses. Five of these are in Scotland.

Alarmed pro-abortion activists took to social media to express their anxieties after hearing of the surge. In response, one pro-abortion group took to Facebook calling for the enforcement of more censorship zones to suppress the pro-life message.

2019 saw multiple pro-life university societies across the UK gain the right to officially affiliate. As reported by SPUC, a number of student groups had to consider legal action to gain this right.

Notably, Glasgow Students for Lifewon their rightto officially affiliate in 2019 after their Students Union was forced to admit that refusing the group breached equality law. Glasgow Students for Life has since flourished at the university andrecently raised moneyfor theAlma Mater Fundwhich supports pregnant and parenting students as part of their pro-life efforts.

Strathclyde Students for Life, Aberdeen Life Ethics Society and Nottingham Students for Life are amongst other pro-life groups which successfully affiliated in 2019.

The appetite for pro-life student groups reflects the shifting public attitude towards abortion in the United Kingdom and the shrill tone of pro-abortionists and their attempts to censor pro-lifers seem to be backfiring.

Despite a lack of media coverage for the pro-life movement in the UK, most people are not in favour of the extreme positions pushed by abortion advocates.

A 2017ComRes poll revealed that a large majority of 72% of the public oppose decriminalising abortion. AsimilarComRes poll in the same yearfound that only 1% favoured increasing the limit up until birth, (albeit, tragically, abortion up to birth is already lawful for disabled babies and in certain other circumstances) and that women in particular supported more restrictions than there are at present.

2019 saw over 5000 people attend the London March For Life, whilst recent pro-life demonstrations in Northern Ireland attracted over 20,000 people. SPUCspro-life youth conferenceis also expected to attract a record number of attendees in 2020.

Published with permission from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children.

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Indias internet censorship has caused $1.3 billion in losses – Reclaim The Net

An investigation carried out by Top10VPN reported that during 2019, India lost more than $1.3 billion due to internet outages ordered by the government in districts such as Jammu & Kashmir, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Uttar Pradesh.

Among the 3 countries with the bigger economic losses

According to the report, India is in third place in a list made up of 21 countries that suffered forced blackouts of the internet service last year, which, in a digitalized society, had a negative impact on commercial activities.

The investigation showed that the total money lost due to internet blockades among all countries was $8.05 billion, so India represented 16% of the chart. It was only surpassed by Sudan and Iraq in terms of monetary losses.

Among all the affected regions of India, the most affected was Jammu & Kashmir, who are facing the biggest blackout of the internet they have seen in their democratic history, since they have not had internet for five consecutive months.

Kashmir is a tourist region and due to this it has been severely affected at an economic level. Not only have the big companies suffered, but also the small merchants, since many artisans were left without a source of income when they could not sell their works online. This caused part of the population to migrate to other states to continue their jobs and thus not suffer so many economic losses.

Top10VPN research chief, Simon Migliano, wrote the following: India imposes Internet restrictions more frequently than any other country, with more than 100 blackouts documented in 2019. In his words, many of these cuts were directed to specific cities for a few hours, so it is difficult to determine how much time they have spent without internet in the country.

The report has only focused on large blockades (such as those that occurred during the Citizens Amendment Act or due to different religious tensions), so the economic impact is likely to be greater than the one estimated in the document. It should be noted that, although small blackouts were not taken into account, India managed to total more than 4000 hours without internet.

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Opinion: Don’t support the Olympics – Eastern Echo

The International Olympic Committee, or IOC, recently warned athletes participating in the 2020 Summer Games that any forms of political protest or messaging are strongly prohibited. They did this by putting out a three page document of guidelines that clarified Rule 50 of their charter. Rule 50 stated in part, No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.

It would seem the initial rule was clear enough, but its apparent the IOC didnt think so. In any case, Rule 50 certainly wasnt working in the IOCs favor. It didnt stop Tommie Smith or John Carlos from raising their hands in a Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics and it didnt stop Gwen Berry or Race Imboden from protesting at the 2019 Pan American Games.

In my eyes an additional document of guidelines clarifying something which was already clear to athletes is pretty pointless. I think the IOC should consider that some athletes think standing up for oppressed people is more important than running fast or even kicking a ball into a net. I mean, it's almost like some people have morals.

But dont get me wrong - Im glad the IOC is taking Rule 50 so seriously. This way, any athlete flashing a peace sign at the games is sure to be thrown out. Why? Because it would obviously be a political demonstration against the United States. I mean, we like war so much that a peace sign is obviously a political attack on our ideology.

You mightve thought that last one was funny but you have no idea of whats next. I mean, isnt it just a joke that people even still watch and support the Olympics? Its a bunch of men and women competing against each other to see whos best! But dont worry, its not competing to find a solution to world hunger, a cure for cancer or something similarly meaningful. It's competing for who can dope the most without being caught.

The Olympics even has medal charts where you can see who the world leader in medals won is. The United States takes great pleasure in winning the most medals and often is the country that does. It makes us feel better to have the fittest and best athletes up there on the medal stands. We also feel good having our obese citizens watch our great victory from home on television.

I think Rule 50 is a joke. I will personally be applauding any athlete that demonstrates at the 2020 Games and opposes the IOCs attempted censorship of athletes. Doing whats right and standing up for what you believe in comes above sport. The IOC has clearly lost sight of that.

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Students will censor themselves if I let the university record every class: professor – The College Fix

Think about the social-media mobs of the 2040s

You may recognize UCLA professor John Villasenors name from our coverage of his survey on student support for disruption of speakers they oppose, and even violence against such speakers (a finding replicated in other surveys).

The senior fellow of the left-leaning Brookings Institution also warned that largely unwritten rules on campus have reduced viewpoint diversity to an all-time low.

The chilling effects of explicit campus policies are Villasenors latest target in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

UCLAs law school, where the public policy professor has a joint appointment, has a default policy of recording all instructors classes unless they opt out. Villasenor explains why he always opts out his 20-something student courses:

Todays students live in a world in which an increasing fraction of their lives is digitally surveilled. Their locations are tracked by their smartphones, their online activities are logged by app providers, their text messages are stored in their phones and in the phones of others, and their comings and goings are tracked by key cards and by cameras in building entrances and hallways. A highly interactive classroom should be a space beyond the reach of the digital panopticon.

He calls the college classroom an interesting in-between space that facilitates the sharing of diverse perspectives without the scripted, performative style of dialogue that is often on view in televised debates and other very public settings.

Recording these discussions threatens that they will be replayed to an unknown number of additional people in the future, perhaps without their original context or in a way that can otherwise be used against them, Villasanor argues.

How confident are we that colleges and universities will responsibly use these recordings for the foreseeable future? He speculates:

Imagine if recordings existed of the college or graduate-school classes that todays politicians and business leaders took in their student days. Its a safe bet that there would be a cottage industry of people working to dig those recordings up, scrutinizing them for any comments that could be weaponized, and triumphantly posting the fruits of their searches on social media.

If we want classrooms to be places where students can engage in candid, spontaneous discussion on complex topics that may rile up the social-media mobs of the 2040s if they become public, we should think twice about recording them, Villasenor says.

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