A free speech organisation has been hacked by a trans activist group that released its recent donor information.
The Free Speech Union (FSU), founded by Lord Young of Acton, had commissioned a report on the activities of the activist group ‘Bash Back’, which then committed the cyber-attack in retaliation.
The group, which is “focused on total transgender liberation”, has claimed responsibility for a string of recent attacks, including on Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s office, a women’s rights conference, and the office of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
‘We will not be cowed’
In a website post, Bash Back claimed: “The Free Speech Union is a membership-based organisation which purports to protect free speech. In reality, they work to protect transphobes, racists, and anti-choice activists.”
The FSU reported the attack to the police and obtained an emergency injunction from the High Court within hours of the breach, forcing Bash Back to remove the leaked donor details. The free speech group now intends to sue for financial damages.
Lord Young stated: “Bash Back is a dangerous anti-democratic organisation that boasts about breaking the law and encourages its supporters to steal hammers to carry out ‘direct action’, including against Members of Parliament.”
“The members of this group need to be prosecuted. Neither we nor our members will be cowed by these tactics.”
‘Organised thuggery’
Writing in The Telegraph, author and journalist Josephine Bartosch commented that the cyber-attack has “stripped away the chintzy veil of victimhood that has long shielded the transgender movement, revealing well organised thuggery”.
She lamented: “Over recent years, law enforcement has shown greater enthusiasm for policing opinion than for confronting organised intimidation.”
“In the eyes of politicians, and those at the helm of the institutions they direct, a change of pronouns and a switch of wardrobe possess a remarkable power: they can transmute criminal behaviour into vulnerability, aggression into fragility, and organised intimidation into something approaching a cry for help.”
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