‘Authoritarian and heavy-handed’: call for investigation into vetting of experts by UK civil servants
by Lizzie Dearden from World news | The Guardian on (#6T748)
Speakers banned after criticising government in social media posts
The information watchdog has been asked to investigate authoritarian" government vetting that caused speakers to be banned from official events for criticising ministers.
Two experts, who discovered that civil servants had combed through years of social media posts to judge them unsuitable" to address conferences, believe the practice was covert and unlawful.
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