Outside the system
Category: Rights
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UK Government, Amazon and eBay Investigate AI Chatbot Toy Bunny Marketed for Toddlers Which Gave Sexualised Responses to Questions
Plush toy sold on Amazon and eBay is one of at least 28 AI chatbot toys found on sale in UK with no evidence of safety testing
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‘We Intend to Succeed’: French Student Protesters Explain Why They’re at the Barricades
French students in Paris tell Byline Times why they’ve joined the protests hitting the headlines around the world
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UK Universities Accused of ‘Silencing’ Pro-Palestinian Students and Academics
Suspensions, campus bans and threats to the visa status of students are being imposed for chanting, clapping and wearing keffiyehs, human rights group says
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Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform’s barring of critical journalists from their conference an “authoritarian” attack on the free press
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The Two Professors and a ‘War On Ideas’
The different stories of the Cambridge academics Jason Arday and James Orr reveal the wider cultural and ideological forces around hierarchies and structural power – and who gets to belong in our institutions
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Conservative Peer Hosts Far-Right Activists Alongside US-Funded Anti-Abortion Group
Prominent Neo-Nazis attended the event in Parliament, hosted by an anti-abortion group, in which they called for politicians to “stop importing an invasive foreign serf class”
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Reform Councils Accused of Seeking to Hide LGBT+ Books in Libraries as Unions Fight to Keep Pride on the Shelves
TUC report says restrictions on Pride displays and rainbow lanyards are spreading across a growing number of Reform-controlled authorities
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Where Are the Climate Protests? Human Rights Group Warns Government Crackdown Is Silencing the Green Movement
Liberty says a slew of new anti-protest measures, including a ban on ‘cumulative disruption’ are silencing calls for government action to prevent catastrophic climate collapse
