This petition was submitted during the 2017 to 2019 Parliament
Rejected petition Advise news publishers of accessible, but discriminatory content to cease this.
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This campaign serves to debate the role of businesses (coffee shops and privatised transport agencies) publishing harmful and discriminatory content that is detrimental to minority groups (based upon ethnic, sexual or gender-affiliated propaganda, misconception and inferiority-inferentialism).
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/calls-to-end-transgender-experiment-on-children-k792rfj7d (7th April, 2019: The Sunday Times)
Articles such as this forming the front page of freely accessible newspapers, creating social division, stigmatisation and discrimination from newspaper consumers towards protected minority groups.
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
Complaints about the press are the responsibility of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), not the Government or Parliament.
You can find out how to make a complaint to IPSO here:
https://www.ipso.co.uk/IPSO/makeacomplaint.html
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