There is a glimmer of hope, on Wikileaks Twitter feed it is shared that the UK and Canada have come together to launch a global campaign to "Defend Media Freedom."
The Human Rights barrister, and Special Envoy, Amal Clooney, is on the panel and has been commissioned to provide legal proposals on how best to defend media freedom. Amal Clooney is also the barrister for Julian Assange.
https://twitter.com/UKinCanada/status/1114214205173817345
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G2_IkaI2fI
This is the best news that I've heard for a very long time. Finally, some Human Rights legal progress in the UK.
It is some years ago now since I had a dream of Amal Clooney, and she was wearing a long black silk gown (it looked like a dressing gown) and there were colourful fireworks going off all around her, the fireworks sounded like firecrackers or popcorn popping.
Like when streamers come out of poppers, and the energy of colours were sparkling around her. Just like inter-galatic colours sparkle. I still remember the dream of her because it was so vivid and when I originally posted the dream on the internet to share it, there was a lot of American drama about the dream of the English-Druze.
The thread was deleted, I reposted it, and it was then locked and moved to a different forum. I then posted it for a third time and started all over again.
Although at the time, it was strange to me why that would have to be the case. Sometimes, some Americans view things very differently to the way that English people do. Cultures and people are not all the same, and never could they ever be. Some people react instead of respond, and some people don't take the time to explain what their issue is with sharing truth.
Laughter and banter is also different in different countries. In fact, some headlines in English, could never be published in some other languages due to the difference in languages and their translations.
I appreciate that things are getting very intense for some people, and when Americans are "triggering" it's best to just let them get on with it.
In England we tend to be far more reserved, calm, respectful, and patient. The English that are brought up properly (not all are) are taught to not interrupt other people's conversations, to be polite and not talk over people, and to not try to stop a discussion that is in progress, otherwise known as 'derailing' a conversation.
In England, if we ever have an issue with someone that we know or is in close proximity, we try to live by Christian principles of speaking to that person privately in the first instance, as Jesus asked us to do. If that doesn't work, then, and only then, do we take the matter further, depending on what the disagreement is.
It is what we call English etiquette. I embrace the importance of everyone having the right of reply and to be able to defend themselves, although American platforms, and broadcast media have denied Tommy Robinson the right to do so. We also find that many media outlets and many American platforms are closing down freedom of speech to silence people and that is against international Human Rights law.
So it is not just about the freedom of journalists, it is also about the freedom of the people in this digital age. In the 90s in marketing and publishing it was called, New Media, in fact we even had a trade magazine with that title. So I do anticipate that Amal Clooney's legal proposals will include alternative media and internet platforms.
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