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# Is Stop Funding Hate an attack on free speech?
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2016/11/stop-funding-hate-attack-free-speech/
- Published: 2016-11-18T09:50:11.000Z
- Updated: 2016-11-18T09:50:11.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: censorship, daily mail, free speech, Politics

[Stop Stop Funding Hate](http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/11/stop-funding-hate-nasty-elitist-campaign-press-censorship/?utm%5Fsource=Adestra&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=Lunchtime%5FEspresso%5F16112016), says Brendan O’Neill for *The Spectator*:

> SFH’s agitation to pull ads from newspapers is not some simple, good, happy-clappy act of consumer caring. It’s the attempted use of financial power to whack tabloid freedom in a similar way to how the FBI and African dictators once sought to harm the radical press. And like all efforts at press censorship throughout history it is motored by a profound distrust in, even disgust for, ordinary people.

It’s a challenging and alternative take on the campaign that has already led to [Lego and the *Daily Mail* parting company](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37962425?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). I don’t really agree with his argument – I’m not convinced that using free speech is inherently removing free speech from corporations to publish what they want – but there is something mildly unsettling about trying to shut down news outlets because you disagree with their message, however distasteful you might find that message.

*(Yes, that headline confirms nicely to [Betteridge’s Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's%5Flaw%5Fof%5Fheadlines?ref=onemanandhisblog.com).)*