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Protect Free Speech - Do not use the Covid Pandemic to criminalize Free Speech.

Submitted on Monday 23rd November 2020

Rejected on Friday 27th November 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

Protect Free Speech - Do not use the Covid Pandemic to criminalize Free Speech.

Petition Details

Protect the right to express an opinion in public without being prosecuted, penalised or censored. The Covid19 pandemic should not be used to subjugate freedom of speech, including freedom to discuss, criticise, and debate the proposed Covid19 vaccine and the governments response to the pandemic.

Additional Information

Freedom of speech makes it possible for individuals to be able to communicate freely and also freely discern the communications shared. Selecting representatives of organisations (i.e. the state, social media platforms) to dictate what is to be communicated as information, versus what is to be censored as misinformation, could become a strategy of political rhetoric used to control a biased narrative. Attempts to criminalise free speech is a dangerous road towards tyrannical government.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do. We're not aware of any proposals from Government or Parliament to change laws on freedom of speech.

You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.

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