"Cancellation of the event," blathers the University statement on the cancellation, "is the only way to eliminate the risk to health and safety and to ensure that the university would not be in breach of its health and safety obligations."Ĭommenters were quick to observe that you can mark this down as both the inevitable outcome of the failed Free Speech Coalition litigation against Auckland Council - which has now cemented into legal precedent this Health and Safety excuse - and another example of the Thug's Veto.Ī timely moment then to post this brief excerpt from the just released book Free Speech Under Attack, from one my three chapters in the book, this one explaining the re-emergence of this phenomenon: 'The Thug's Veto'. So "legal advice" about protestors threatening unspecified violence has managed to give Massey University a "Health and Safety" reason to s hut down a planned Feminism 2020 Conference at the University - hosting which despite the threats against it had previously given some of us to describe the University using words like "courageous." Turns out we were wrong.
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