“The committee received anonymous accounts from disabled people claiming they had been ‘tricked or tested’ by their assessors.
These included claimants who were made to park further away than necessary from the assessment centre to check how far they could walk, and lifts being placed out of order to force claimants to climb the stairs.”
This is evil. There’s no other word for it. I hope as an atheist that I’m wrong and that these fuckers burn in hell.
This is not the same as the plan to record benefit assessments. I just wanted to put that right at the top. Here’s what it is about: MPs are calling for an urgent government investigation int…
In oral arguments, Supreme Court justices asked a question that we can answer with science: do policies against harassment cause a chilling effect on freedom of expression?
In multiple large-scale field experiments, we have found that policies that restrict harmful speech actually increase the free exercise of speech rights.
Here's our latest data: https://citizensandtech.org/2022/08/harassment-prevention-across-communities/
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