‘It’s a Reality Where People are Afraid of Expressing their Opinions’ – Australian Legal Scholar
‘It’s a Reality Where People are Afraid of Expressing their Opinions’ – Australian Legal Scholar
By Sputnik International
“It was bad enough 10 years ago when I was trying to advise the government that Section 18C of the Discrimination Act was being used by highly intolerant individuals in order to make sure that their opinions could not be freely expressed without the person taking the risk of suffering severe persecution,” Dr. Augusto Zimmermann, an internationally known legal scholar, broadly recognized as one of Australia’s strongest proponents of free speech, told Sputnik.
“But at this point things only got worse and some of my friends are being targets for the crime of opinion, especially if you hold conservative values,” Zimmerman said.
Original source: https://t.me/SputnikInt/68623
