{"id":99175,"date":"2025-11-20T04:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99175"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:37:33","slug":"our-free-speech-documentary-has-been-cancelled-a-london-cinema-has-banned-think-before-you-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/11\/20\/our-free-speech-documentary-has-been-cancelled-a-london-cinema-has-banned-think-before-you-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Our free-speech documentary has been cancelled! | A London cinema has banned <em>Think Before You Post<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wxIy9OjnjX0?si=0vYw2LwEwHCjx88b\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>spiked<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 19 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p>Our new documentary, <em>Think Before You Post<\/em>, about the rise of the British speech police, was due to have its premiere in London next week. Last night, the venue got in contact to say it would be cancelling our booking, because the event does not align with its &#8220;values&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here, <em>spiked<\/em>&#8216;s Tom Slater tells all. <\/p>\n<p>We are working flat-out to find a new venue for the same night. So if you bought tickets, do bear with us. But if we can\u2019t find somewhere else in time, we\u2019ll refund everyone and postpone it for a later date. If you\u2019d like a refund now anyway, get in touch and we&#8217;ll process it.<\/p>\n<p>At least they&#8217;re proving our point &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About <em>spiked<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2000, <em>spiked<\/em> was a pioneer of 21st-century journalism \u2013 the first online-only political magazine in the UK. <\/p>\n<p>Now edited by Tom Slater, <em>spiked<\/em> reaches millions around the world with hard-hitting articles, incisive essays and a growing roster of podcasts and videos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>spiked Published 19 Nov 2025 Our new documentary, Think Before You Post, about the rise of the British speech police, was due to have its premiere in London next week. Last night, the venue got in contact to say it would be cancelling our booking, because the event does not align with its &#8220;values&#8221;. Here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,28,53],"tags":[459,186,350],"class_list":["post-99175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","tag-censorship","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-london"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pNB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99176,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99175\/revisions\/99176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}