South Park is well known for its crude and controversial material, however, some episodes have caused such an uproar that they are now banned.

South Park is well known for its crude and controversial material;however, there are some episodes that have caused suchan uproar that they are now banned from Comedy Central, South Park Studios website, and any streaming platform that airs the show. While there are five episodes banned in total, season 14 episodes "200" and "201" sparked an enormous outcry from Middle-Eastern terrorism groups over their planned depiction of the Prophet Muhammad.

Released in 1997,South Park became known for its crude animation and subject matter, before pivoting to more political, current-events-based satire. Still, despite its offensive material, the show has earned itself an array of awards and accolades, such as Primetime Emmy Awards, and its success has not waivered, remaining one of Comedy Central's most-watched shows.

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Censorship was at the heart of episodes "200" and "201," with series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone taking a strong stance against it. The episodes upon airing, however, were censored; even the dialogue at the end of "201" was completely bleeped. The creators weren't happy with the network's decision (as per a statement South Park Studios released), which was no doubt increased by the fact that an image of Muhammad had already aired in 2001 during season 5 episode 3's "Super Best Friends."

Ross Douthat of The New York Timesstated thatthe move to censorSouth Park was a result of the Danish newspaper,Jyllands-Posten,running unflattering images of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005, which lead to global riots and death threats. In Islam traditions, the Prophet is not allowed to be depicted in any way. Despite this, the newspaper ran the images, and even with outcries from several prominent Muslim groups, the paper did not back down.

In the United States, tensions were high between the West and Islamic people due to the 9/11 terrorist attack. While US news outlets covered the controversy, they did not reprint any of the depictions of Muhammad, even though the US values freedom of speech and the press. For the US, religious sensitivity along with a larger population of people of the Islamic faith was a more important factor.

Episodes "200" and "201" revolve around pastSouth Parkepisodes, storylines, and controversies, with Trey Parker and Matt Stone pushing the boundaries of censorship, especially in the case of Muhammad. Irritated that they could show Jesus and other religious icons, the inability to display Muhammad becomes a focal point of the episode. Throughout the story, past celebrities, angered by the town of South Park for continually ridiculing and mocking them, want to steal the powers Muhammad has to not be shown or insulted.

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After episode "200" aired, threats were leveled against both creators of the show and Comedy Central if they depicted the image of Muhammad further. Revolution Muslim, a group known for advocating the end of western imperialism, had an author post to Twitter wishing death and Hell for both Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Additional threats and veiled references were made comparing the creators to Dutch director Theo Van Gogh, who was murdered after a film he made portrayed violence against women in some Islamic societies.

While Trey Parker and Matt Stone continued to advocate against censorship and defended their work, Comedy Central heavily censored the episode in order to protect its employees. Further, they went back and removed "Super Best Friends" from the South Park lineup, as well as censored "Cartoon Wars Parts 1 and 2." WhileSouth Park has released episodes in the past that have pushed the boundaries enough to warrantcensorship, episodes "200" and "201" are notable due to their focused plot points, as well as the threats that were leveled against both show creators before the episodes even aired.

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A pro-Trump ad was removed from Facebook after claims that it contained false information, Fox News has learned.

AmericaFirst Action PAC on Tuesday told Fox News that Facebook removed one of its ads, titled "On Hold,"which was placed in Arizona, Pennsylvaniaand Wisconsin on July 24. The ad was flagged by Politifact on July 29, according to the PAC.

"Facebook's decision to take down this ad shows its anti-conservative bias,"America First Communications Director Kelly Sadler told Fox News. "America First Action has logged an appeal, but the threat of anti-conservative bias, targeting, and censorship remains ahead of Election Day in November and we must be vigilant inholding big tech, like Facebook accountable."

TWITTER EXEC IN CHARGE OF FACT-CHECKING MOCKED TRUMP SUPPORTERS, CALLED MCCONNELL 'BAG OF FARTS'

Sadler, during an interview on FoxBusiness on Tuesday, added that this "is just more bias from these social media companies."

"We're going to file an appeal, but there's really little we can do about it," she told host Stuart Varney."These social media giants are monopolies, and ultimately they make the decision of what runs on their platform."

Facebook confirmed to Fox News on Tuesday that the ad had, in fact, been fact-checked. A Facebook spokesperson told Fox News that ads that are fact-checked and found to contain false information are not eligible to run as a paid ad on the social media platform.

The spokesman added that the videos can, instead, run as original content on the group's page.

America First Action, though, said certain versions of the ad were removed in particular states, but the Facebook spokesman said that once the ad was fact-checked as false, all versions would be removed from the platform.

The Facebook spokesperson said that if any version of the ad was still running on the platform, it would be due to a lag in Facebook's fact-checking system.

The ad in question was titled On Hold, and shows a woman calling 9-1-1 and being put on hold. The ad moves to show Democratic nominee former Vice President Joe Biden saying yes, with a "defund the police?" banner.

The ad is currently marked on Facebook with a label saying: "False Information. Checked by independent fact-checkers."

Facebooks fact-checking comes as members of the Trump administration and prominent Republicans have claimed that social media platforms have censoredright-leaning viewpoints.

Attorney General WilliamBarr told Fox News in June that social media platforms are "engaged in censorship"and are acting more like "publishers."

"They originally held themselves out as open forums where people, where the third parties could come and express their views and they built up a tremendous network of eyeballs,"Barr said on "Special Report"in June.

"They had a lot of market power based on thatpresentation," the attorney general added. "And now they are acting much more like publishers because they're censoring particular viewpoints and putting their own content in there to diminish the impact of various people's views."

Twitter, earlier this summer, slapped a warning label on one of President Trump's tweets for the first time, cautioning readers that despite the president's claims, "fact checkers" say there is "no evidence" that expanded, nationwide mail-in voting would increase fraud risks -- and that "experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud.

Within minutes, Trump accused Twitter of "interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election,"that the platform "is completely stifling FREE SPEECH"and vowing: "I, as President, will not allow it to happen!"

Two days later, the president signed an executive order that interprets Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 as not providing statutory liability protections for tech companies that engage in censorship and political conduct. It also cuts federal funding for social media platforms that censor users' political views.

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Russia plans to create a data service to tackle 'fake news,' the country's media watchdog Rospechat said on Tuesday. US social media giant Facebook has also attempted to construct a similar system but progress has been slow.

The automated editor's job description will include comparing as many news-related facts as possible and finding the wrong ones, Rospechat's deputy chief Ilya Lazarev wrote in a letter to the Ministry of Communications, which was quoted by Moscow business daily RBK on Tuesday.

Rospechat expects the counter-misinformation aggregator to be completed by 2023 and hopes to make it available to both organizations and individuals. In order to get the project moving, the watchdog has requested 94.3 million rubles ($1.3 million) from federal authorities.

Previously, Human Rights Watch - an American lobby group bankrolled by George Soros - has claimed that the Russian government has been building an entire arsenal of tools to reign over information, internet users, and communications networks which could further suffocate independent media in the country.

Rospechat's fake news filter is somewhat similar to a tool Facebook has been attempting to create. In 2016, its founder Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to develop a 'misinformation' filter but four years later, there is still no sign of it. Zuckerberg admitted then that the problems were complex, both technically and philosophically.

Russia has significantly expanded laws and regulations tightening control over internet infrastructure, online content, and the privacy of communications.

If carried out to their full restrictive potential, the new measures will severely undermine the ability of people in Russia to exercise their human rights online, including freedom of expression and freedom of access to information.

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Twitter is updating its policies on unsafe links to patch one of its most abused loopholes. Starting Thursday, July 30, the social network will censor tweets that link to hate speech and violence.

In a tweet, Twitter added that accounts that frequently tweet links featuring hateful conduct may also be potentially suspended. The social network tends to take action on unsafe links in one of the two ways: It will either completely ban a particular link so that it cant be tweeted at all or display a warning to anyone who clicks the link.

Twitter will block links to content that promotes violence against, threatens or harasses other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease, the updated policy says.

Since Twitters policies on links didnt cover these categories in the past, malicious users were able to circumvent the social networks rules by tweeting links instead of sharing hate speech or violent content directly.

Our goal is to block links in a way thats consistent with how we remove Tweets that violate our rules. Well start taking action under these updated guidelines on Thursday, July 30, the social networks official support handle wrote in a tweet.

Apart from hate speech, Twitter doesnt allow sharing links that redirect to malware, phishing scams, websites that sell buy, sell, or facilitate transactions in illegal goods or services, media, or other content created by terrorist organizations or violent extremist groups, and more.

Twitter told Digital Trends this is a continuation of its work to improve their policies across Twitter to promote healthy conversation and that by blocking such links, its addressing a gap that failed to protect people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.

Over the past few months, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spur misinformation and conspiracy theories, Twitter has actively employed its link policies to censor misleading tweets. In May, for instance, it marked a handful of URLs of the conspiracy movie Plandemicas unsafe and displayed a precautionary warning to anyone who tried to visit them.

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As the US got engulfed in civil unrest after the death of George Floyd, the internet became consumed by new waves of cancel culture.

On one hand, some of the ire was directed toward Facebook as the largest social media network that was not doing enough to moderate and censor content that Black Lives Matter supporters disapproved of as hate speech and on the other, individuals, small businesses and corporations became aware of the importance of not finding themselves on the wrong side of this tidal wave of activist outrage.

Thats how the Facebook boycott campaign was born, as a way for companies, big and small, to punish the platform by depriving it of some of its advertising dollars. But although joined by true behemoths like Disney, Unilever, and Volkswagen, it was limited in duration to just one month, and therefore looked like a performative, good press-seeking ploy, rather than a case of authentic wokeness.

As the boycott is expiring, The Guardian is looking at what it really means and ways in which its participants could prove their action is anything but a PR stunt.

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One way would be to expand the boycott, and the paper has found several past and current (anonymous) content moderators that spoke in favor of this. One said that Facebooks lost revenue due to the boycott was negligible, and that while they supported scrutinizing Facebooks policies in this way, the giant was now retrenching, making it hard to say what, if any, long-term results the campaign will have.

These moderators are employees of third-party companies that Facebook outsources to do its dirty work not just in terms of having to act as censors, but also because they are not allowed to censor as much as some believe they should.

When it comes to our mental health, we would feel much better if we could delete more. One of the stressing factors is that we have to leave on the platform things that we think are harmful and plain evil, said one current moderator.

The accusation that Facebook isnt taking proper action to protect mental well-being and improve working conditions for workers of companies it hires as contractors, has been present for a while.

Former moderator Chris Gray, who is suing Facebook because he says he developed PTSD, had this to say about the one-month boycott:

Millions and millions of small businesses are going to have to pay for adverts: thats all they can do. Mark Zuckerberg doesnt care. Hes on record as saying theyll be back. So Ive got no faith that it will achieve anything.

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Photo: Statue of Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury Library, by Bs0u10e01 / CC BY-SA.

As you may remember fromearlier coverage here, Herman Bouma is the attorney whose presentation on Darwin was canceled by the 2019 National Science Teaching Associations National Conference. The point of Boumas planned discussion was that Charles Darwin practiced open debate with his critics, an example from which teachers today could take a lesson. This was too much, though, for the influential group to tolerate so they sent conference officials and security guards to escort him out.

Well, the story continues now as the American Association for the Advancement of Science has joined the NSTA in giving Bouma the runaround.

This February, the AAAS held its annual meeting here in Seattle. In addition to lectures and keynotes, the meeting is where different branches hold business meetings. Bouma recently emailed us about what happened when he tried to submit a resolution to the Biological Sciences section for its consideration.

Bouma explained the situation this way:

The resolution simply states that a teacher should feel free to teach how Darwin responded to his critics. I was informed by the chair, Dr. Vicki Chandler, that the main office of the AAAS would be handling the resolution because it dealt with the subject of evolution. Last week I was informed by the current chair of the section, Dr. David Burgess, that the main office did not support the resolution. When I asked why, he refused to give any reason. It seems clear that the AAAS opposes the resolution because it does not want any discussion of scientific arguments against neo-Darwinian evolution, but is too embarrassed to state this publicly.

Was Bouma proposing some distasteful policy, or simply encouraging educators to treat Darwinian evolution like a science? Read the resolution for yourself:

Resolution on Freedom to Teach Darwins Response to His Critics

Whereas in his bookThe Origin of SpeciesDarwin responded to eminent scientists of his day who had scientific arguments against his theory of natural selection, including Louis Agassiz,a world-renowned professor of geology and biology at Harvard University known as the father of the American scientific tradition; Adam Sedgwick, a professor of geology and paleontology at Cambridge University and one of Britains most distinguished geologists; and Karl Nageli, a Swiss professor of botany at the University of Munich who was famous for his work on plant cells;

WhereasDarwin took great care to reply thoughtfully to the scientific arguments against his theory and, by the time of the sixth edition ofThe Origin of Speciesin 1872, approximately one-third of his book consisted of his response to his critics;

Whereas Darwinstated, I look with confidence to the future,to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question with impartiality (The Origin of Species, p. 444); and

Whereas the Statement on the Teaching of Evolution issued by the AAAS on February 16, 2006, might erroneously lead teachers and professors to think they should not teach Darwins response to his critics,

RESOLVED: When teaching Darwins theory of natural selection, a teacher or professor should feel free to teach Darwins response to his critics, as set forth in his bookThe Origin of Species.

Or dismayed? Disturbed? Actually, its a totally reasonable proposal treat Darwins theory as Darwin himself treated it! But it wasnt received that way. Bouma sent multiple courteous emails to the AAAS leadership, asking them to consider the resolution, but was stonewalled. Heres an example of one email Bouma sent on January 8, 2020:

Dear Dr. Chandler,

Happy New Year! I hope you had an enjoyable time over the holidays.

My name is Herman Bouma and I have been attending the business meetings of the Biological Sciences Section over the last several years. I have a resolution I would like to present to the Section for its approval at the business meeting next month in Seattle. Would you be so kind as to tell me what procedure I should follow for doing this?

Thank you very much for your assistance.

Chandler promised to review and respond to Boumas resolution. Dr. Chandler later replied, declining even to consider it at the AAAS meeting. Chandler gave Bouma no official feedback on his resolution but emphasized instead how much the AAAS fight[s] the good fight to support teaching evolution:

We of course support the teaching of evolution.AAAS takes an active approach to informing the public about, and taking a stand for teaching evolution. Efforts to fight the good fight about teaching evolution are public onaaas.org, and have been ongoing for years. We believe working with the main office folks that handles the evolution effort and policies associated with teaching evolution is the best way forward,as teaching evolution is relevant to a large number of sections and AAAS membership. As such I have forwarded your request to AAAS main office.

Bouma wrote back. He asked, At some point will I be receiving a response from the AAAS main office? He also wondered, Will the Biological Sciences Section and other sections be providing input to the AAAS main office about my resolution? He pointed out that his resolution is fully consistent with Chandlers stated position that the AAAS supports the teaching of evolution:

I wish to emphasize that the resolution is not in any way against the teaching of evolution. It takes the teaching of evolution as a given. The resolution simply seeks to make clear to teachers that they should feel free to teach Darwins response to critics of his theory of natural selection.

Having heard nothing from the AAAS main office, a few weeks later, Bouma asked Chandler if theyd ever get back to him about the resolution. Chandler replied, That is my expectation. This correspondence all took place before the AAAS annual meeting, which was February 13-16. AnEvolution Newscorrespondent reported on the Education business meeting at that same conferencehere. It became clear that the AAAS main office was going to stonewall Bouma as well.

On February 18, Bouma contacted the new chair of the Biological Sciences section of the AAAS, David Burgess, noting that hed not heard back from the AAAS main office about the resolution:

As of this time I have not received any communication from the main office. If you hear anything about the status of the proposal and who is working on it, I would much appreciate your letting me know. I would also greatly appreciate your support of the proposal.

Burgess wrote back three days later:

Herman, thank you for youremail. I know this has been moved up to the main offices of AAAS. There is no support among the officers of the BiologicalSciences section to take this up at the section level.In viewing of your organizations website, it is clear that you represent one whose views are in contrast to that of mainstream science on the issue of evolution and its teaching. I suggest you take it up with the main offices of AAAS.

Its good that Burgess gave Bouma something like a straight answer. The disturbing news is that the answer indicated that the Biological Sciences section of the AAAS is so intolerant that they dont support efforts to teach Darwins theory the way Darwin himself treated it to acknowledge that criticisms exist and to teach Darwins response to his critics.

Bouma had a ready reply:

My organization is simply trying to promote an objective discussion of the scientific merits of the theory of natural selection. Even Darwin wanted that. It would be peculiar if mainstream science was at odds with the expressed wishes of Darwin.

It would indeed be peculiar if mainstream science did not support Darwins approach to dealing with criticisms of his theory. Instead, Darwins ideas are to be treated as sacred dogmas, beyond questioning.

But that was only the position of the AAAS Biological Sciences section. Perhaps the AAAS central office would have a different perspective. Months went by and Bouma received no reply from the AAAS central office. So on July 6 Bouma sent an inquiry to Dr. Burgess, wondering why hed heard nothing about his resolution:

I am following up with respect to my proposed resolution for AAAS. As a reminder, the proposed resolution simply states that a teacher or professor should feel free to teach how Darwin responded to his critics. After I submitted the proposed resolution to the Biological Sciences section, I was informed byDr. Chandler that it would be handled bythe AAAS main office, and in an email on February 21 you suggested I take it up with the main offices of AAAS. So far I have sent three emails about the resolution (on February 24, April 24, and May 18) to Dr. Parikh, the CEO of AAAS, but have received no response. Do you have any information about the present status of my proposal?

Dr. Burgess then explained what was really going on:

Herman, it is apparent that the lack of response is a direct message to you that there is no support.

This is most disconcerting. Boumas modest proposal to teach evolution the way Darwin treated his own theory has no support from one of the worlds largest and most powerful scientific organizations, the AAAS.

Bouma then replied asking Why is there no support, David? but again no reply has been forthcoming.

Bouma explained to us what is really going on here: This is another instance of the scientific communitys zeal to prevent students from hearing any scientific arguments against neo-Darwinian evolution. In furtherance of this objective, the AAAS, like the NSTA, is even willing to censor Darwin.

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Last week Twitter made international headlines for its statements in the Knesset when questioned about its hate speech policies. The platforms representative, Ylwa Pettersson, stated that while Trumps tweets violate its standards for glorifying violence, the ayatollahs calls for genocide do not.

Additionally, when I asked Twitter in the committee meeting why it doesnt prohibit Holocaust denial, it confirmed that Holocaust denial is permissible on its platform as long as its not targeted at Jews.

While these responses were surely stunning to those of us in the committee and apparently to the international press it is a testament to the true state of affairs when it comes to understanding modern antisemitism. It is for precisely this reason that all social media platforms should be adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism and using it as an educational tool rather than for censorship.

When looking at antisemitism today, five major manifestations appear on social media calls to violence, Holocaust denial, antisemitic conspiracies, antisemitic tropes, and use of Israel or Zionism as replacement words for hateful comments toward Jews or Judaism.

Google leads the field in fighting antisemitism with specific terms that cover antisemitic conspiracies and tropes, as well as Holocaust denial, demonization of groups based on ideas (i.e., Zionists are baby killers), and of course calls to violence. Facebook and TikTok have definitions that could be applied to forms of antisemitism, depending on context, but Twitter does not even have that. Even worse, Twitter has a well-documented pattern of double standards with antisemitic speech. Only last week, it removed neo-Nazi and KKK leader David Duke from its platform, where he has been freely spouting his hate speech for 11 years, but Louis Farrakhan, despite his vile tweets about Jews (and calling Jews termites), is still using the platform with impunity much like the ayatollah of Iran.

This month, Twitters colossal failure sparked uproar when British rapper Wiley went on an appalling antisemitic rant a trend that seems to be occurring with increasing frequency on social media. Celebrities, artists, politicians and the Jewish community fought back by staging a 48-hour walkout of Twitter in response to its failure to deal with the hate speech. Days later, Wiley was finally banned from Twitter. But banning alone wont solve the ugliness in the hearts of antisemites that will require education and conversation.

The IHRA definition of antisemitism addresses all the aforementioned forms of antisemitism, but it doesnt call for banning or removing hate speech it calls for acknowledgment.

This is the model that should be adopted. Should social media networks finally get serious about implementing IHRA, they can flag antisemitic content with a warning that, according to the consensus of the Jewish community, this content would be considered antisemitic. Additionally, they can provide and attach resources to the content in question so viewers can read more about antisemitism today, and why we, as Jews, believe the content is problematic. This is a vastly superior approach to removing posts or accounts, because it not only helps educate users who are knowingly or unknowingly buying into antisemitic tropes or conspiracies, but it also allows us to track and monitor antisemitic sentiment all while respecting free speech.

Perhaps even more importantly, working with social media networks to monitor and define antisemitism according to the IHRA framework helps to educate the employees of the networks themselves. Imagine how different Petterssons response would have been in that Knesset committee meeting had she had a proper education in antisemitism, which she clearly did not receive in her home country of Sweden. And shes the head of policy for Twitter for Israel and the Nordic states a testament to how severe this problem is today.

Censorship will not lead to a better world or more tolerant communities. Social media platforms should adopt IHRA today, and use it as an educational tool to reduce antisemitism and build trust with the Jewish community that has been so severely damaged by the lack of action on the part of these digital platforms.

The writer is the CEO of Social Lite Creative and a research fellow at the Tel Aviv Institute.

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NOC needed to show Army theme content on OTT: Industry reacts in defence - Hindustan Times

Brexithas divided public opinion since the historic referendum four years ago but one expert has found 32 percent of Brexiteers in academia still hide their views. Political scientist Dr Remi Adekoya has called for the introduction of academic freedom directors in British universities. His department's report has argued academics with right-leaning or pro-Brexit views feel they have to censor what they teach, research and discuss.

Speaking to talkRADIO, Dr Adekoya said: "Both sides unfortunately discriminate when it comes to hiring, publication and promotion.

"Unfortunately since people with right-leaning views are in a very small minority in academia, they are disproportionately affected by this.

"There is a structure of discrimination if you are a right-leaning academic.

"A total of 32 percent who identify as right have hidden their views or neglected to mention their views for fear of what that might to their career and that is completely wrong.

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"I'm completely against that. Personally, I am a left-leaning academic.

"I think it's completely wrong that anybody around me should worry about what they say."

His comments come as it emerged the European Union is willing to compromise to rescue troubled Brexit talks by softening its demand that Britain heed EU rules on state aid in the future,.

Diplomatic sources told ReutersBrussels could go for a compromise entailing a dispute-settling mechanism on any state aid granted by the UK to its companies in the future, rather than obliging London to follow the bloc's own rules from the outset.

Provisions to ensure fair competition pose the biggest stumbling block in the negotiations aimed at sealing a new trade accord from 2021 following Britain's exit from the EU in January after 46 years of membership.

The 27 EU countries have long demanded so-called "level playing field" guarantees from Britain if it wants to continue selling goods freely in the bloc's lucrative single market of 450 million people - after Britain's standstill transition period following Brexit expires at the end of this year.

Without an agreement, trade and financial ties between the world's fifth largest economy and its biggest trading bloc would collapse overnight, likely spreading havoc among markets, businesses and people.

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But Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Government has refused to be bound by EU state aid rules, environmental standards or labour laws, saying the essence of Brexit was to let Britain decide alone on its own regulations.

An EU diplomat said: "The room for compromise lies in something that will let the UK decide on its own since 'regaining sovereignty' is such a big Brexit thing.

"We would reserve the right to decide on any consequences vis--vis access to the single market for UK companies as a result."

Another diplomatic source said such a dispute resolution mechanism could be a way to help clinch an agreement.

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Brexiteers feel they have to censor their words as 32% of academics hide their opinion - Express

Artist News Business News Live Business Setlist By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 3 August 2020

CMUs Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Wileys antisemitic social media posts and what responsibilities the social media platforms have when their users offend, plus the call from various big name musicians for politicians to stop using their music (or any music) without permission.

SECTION TIMES01: Wiley antisemitic social media posts (00:07:39)02: Musicians letter to politicians (00:25:11)

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