In other news, yesterday I got no-platformed from this philosophy series at @ZASBerlin on "oppressive speech". (You just could NOT make this shit up). Til yesterday, this title and abstract were published under theme 5, but I've now been told to withdraw. https://t.co/OX89GApf26 pic.twitter.com/7CrVALPW24

— Kathleen Stock (@Docstockk) December 10, 2020

/and clearly, pressure was being brought to bear by those higher up in the organisation. But is quite funny – in completely unhumorous sense of "funny" – that I can defend my views, held by most people, to MPs in Parliament, but can't get gig in an academic series on free speech.

— Kathleen Stock (@Docstockk) December 10, 2020

Follow up from Director here. On a): the theme as offered to me was "Bodies, gender identity and misogyny" so I was scarcely off topic. On b) it seems clear that the real reason was offense and the rest is confected nonsense. So much for academic freedom. https://t.co/XRpEE2i0Lj

— Kathleen Stock (@Docstockk) December 10, 2020

ZAS had to retract the abstract because it did not fit to the scientific theme of the workshop (oppressive speech & communication) and contained language that was inconsistent with the values of the ZAS. We regret that the abstract went online.

— ZAS Berlin (@ZASBerlin) December 10, 2020