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No sacred cows

The creep of internet censorship

26 September 2020

9:00 AM

26 September 2020

9:00 AM

Kristie Higgs, a 44-year-old school assistant, didn’t realise that criticising the sex education curriculum at her son’s school on Facebook would get her fired. For one thing, her account was set to ‘private’, so only her family and friends could read it. For another, she was posting under her maiden name, so no one could connect her with her employer.

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