Full scale censorship enforced.. In Britain

The only people that care or do anything student union related are these kind of people so nothing will happen in response to it.

It looks as if the 'ban' consists in their deciding not to sell it in their own on-campus shops. There's no suggestion that you cannot bring the Sun onto campus.

And it'd be the more 'authoritarian' to tell them what they could and couldn't sell in their own shop, surely?


Since the Union Shop last year sold 722 copies of the Sun, or just under two a day, it hardly looks as if many students will be much put out by it.


Something or nothing, then. My info from here: http://mancunion.com/2013/10/04/students-union-boycott-the-sun/

Its the thought behind it, the fact that they brought censorship into the union, thats whats scary. Nobody is forcing them to sell it, if they stopped because it wasnt sellung many copies thats okay, but that isnt the reason.

I dont read the paper, but you cant just go around banning newspapers.

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So whats the answer if not forcing them to sell it against their wishes?

They're banning the sale of it on campus, that doesn't mean you can't get your lazy ass to the shop and buy it there.

Banning is not okay, that is called censorship and is not welcome in Britain, and certainly not in SU's. However, if they stopped selling them because it wasnt making a profit etc thats an entirely different reason. As i said nobodys forcing them, the union however has made the first authoritarisn move, nobody else. They are in the wrong.

So 2 authoritarian moves make a libertarian?

So students unions up and down the country are enforcing censorship with the union at the university of manchester becoming the most recent to enforce a ban of the sale of the newspaper, The Sun. Now even though The Sun isn't really a real newspaper (come on now we all know it is nothing more than a picture book) and i dont read it, I find it horrific that our own unions are turning to ideologies and strategies that belong in the 1930s and 1940s. Futhermore, all this authoritarian actions in being taken in the name of "feminism" an ideology that is not only sexist, but also hypercritical as it claims to fight for equality by oppressing, bullying and belitting men, and imposing authoritarian and draconian laws, such as the banning of literature and hopes to set buisnesses sexist laws on the minimal amount of women they can have on Exec boards etc. (Because gender really matters in a persons capacity to make good decisions and business strategies) How can feminists argue that they are freedom and equality loving people, when they ban literature and bully women who dont have insecurities about their bodies, and decide to take up a career in things like modeling, with groups such as "no more page 3". The hypocrisy is oustanding.

Student unions need to wake up and realise that taking authoritarian actions to "protect women" is not only wrong, but also a form of bullying and sexism by making women look like the weaker half of the human race, something they are certainly not. Unions should know better.

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It looks as if the 'ban' consists in their deciding not to sell it in their own on-campus shops. There's no suggestion that you cannot bring the Sun onto campus.
And it'd be the more 'authoritarian' to tell them what they could and couldn't sell in their own shop, surely?
Since the Union Shop last year sold 722 copies of the Sun, or just under two a day, it hardly looks as if many students will be much put out by it.
Something or nothing, then. My info from here: http://mancunion.com/2013/10/04/students-union-boycott-the-sun/

However, I would have expected such an action to have been mandated by either:
a) A particular officer campaigning with a manifesto pledge to do this, or:
b) Some form of consultation of the student body (e.g. a referendum or similar).