A professor of medieval literature is suing her local residents’ association for preventing her from exercising her right to free speech by excluding her from the community email group. The fact that people in the email group did not wish to hear her views on local topics, she told the court, was no justification for interfering with her right to free expression. Nor was the threat from residents that they would leave the group if they continued to receive emails from her a justification for the ban. The residents’ association said they had offered to set up a separate group for people who wished to hear the professor’s views, which she herself would then manage. The professor had rejected this offer, because, she said, she had ‘no interest in preaching only to the converted’. The case continues.
Simon Collings
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Thank you Simon, now I know why sometimes my requests to join groups never get answered.
Comment by Tracey Chh on 9 March, 2024 at 7:16 am