Nik Sunil Williams
@nikwilliams.bsky.social
Policy wonk at Index on Censorship and co-chair of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition. Works on FoEx, Anti-SLAPP and digital rights. Loves Joan Didion, Dinosaurs 🦕 & My Bloody Valentine. He/Him @indexoncensorship.org
Sauchiehall Street has lots of vacant or closing shops. If we were to follow Trump's authoritarian logic should we be expecting the military to be called in?
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Sauchiehall Street has lots of vacant or closing shops. If we were to follow Trump's authoritarian logic should we be expecting the military to be called in?
Happy Birthday ECHR!
Your footing may be fragile right now and your legacy may be contested but my god you are needed now more than ever!
What a day to be in Strasbourg
Your footing may be fragile right now and your legacy may be contested but my god you are needed now more than ever!
What a day to be in Strasbourg
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Happy Birthday ECHR!
Your footing may be fragile right now and your legacy may be contested but my god you are needed now more than ever!
What a day to be in Strasbourg
Your footing may be fragile right now and your legacy may be contested but my god you are needed now more than ever!
What a day to be in Strasbourg
Always nice to stumble across a bit of personal film history when you are on a work trip.
The record shop from one of my favourite films, Before Sunrise where Hawke and Deply listen to Kath Bloom
The record shop from one of my favourite films, Before Sunrise where Hawke and Deply listen to Kath Bloom
October 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Always nice to stumble across a bit of personal film history when you are on a work trip.
The record shop from one of my favourite films, Before Sunrise where Hawke and Deply listen to Kath Bloom
The record shop from one of my favourite films, Before Sunrise where Hawke and Deply listen to Kath Bloom
I was proud to play a small role in the launch of this important report.
Now we need action. We need to level the playing field and we need an anti-SLAPP law to protect everyone who speaks out. antislapp.uk
Now we need action. We need to level the playing field and we need an anti-SLAPP law to protect everyone who speaks out. antislapp.uk
October 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I was proud to play a small role in the launch of this important report.
Now we need action. We need to level the playing field and we need an anti-SLAPP law to protect everyone who speaks out. antislapp.uk
Now we need action. We need to level the playing field and we need an anti-SLAPP law to protect everyone who speaks out. antislapp.uk
So the racist policy pipeline/human centipede is Trump at the front, Farage sandwiched in the middle and then Matt Goodwin at the end.
September 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
So the racist policy pipeline/human centipede is Trump at the front, Farage sandwiched in the middle and then Matt Goodwin at the end.
"It’s less about whether we are likely to win, as the impression it creates when we show that we really will take strong legal action…”
#SLAPPs do not only target the defendant - they send a signal to EVERYONE to key their mouths shut and to do this they do not even need to make it to court
#SLAPPs do not only target the defendant - they send a signal to EVERYONE to key their mouths shut and to do this they do not even need to make it to court
September 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"It’s less about whether we are likely to win, as the impression it creates when we show that we really will take strong legal action…”
#SLAPPs do not only target the defendant - they send a signal to EVERYONE to key their mouths shut and to do this they do not even need to make it to court
#SLAPPs do not only target the defendant - they send a signal to EVERYONE to key their mouths shut and to do this they do not even need to make it to court
The docs reported on by @tbij.bsky.social give an unprecedented look into the workings of those that use legal actions and threats to silence criticism.
For instance, here the founder of Chelgate asks whether police officers could be sued for defamation, "it would be saying ‘put up, or shut up’."
For instance, here the founder of Chelgate asks whether police officers could be sued for defamation, "it would be saying ‘put up, or shut up’."
![In 2017, the net was closing in on OneCoin. So Carter-Ruck, with the encouragement of the boutique PR firm Chelgate, duly stepped up its “assault” on the scheme’s critics.
In an email to Gill dated 12 April 2017, Chelgate founder Terence Fane-Saunders said the police probe could be defaming a company that had not been charged or convicted of anything. He asked whether the police “enjoy immunity in terms of Defamation law if they say these things within the context of an investigation? If not, then perhaps we could initiate an action? Essentially, it would be saying ‘put up, or shut up’. I think it would also cause great discomfort within the [City of London police] hierarchy.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bw5lf34mfpe3p54qgr6bk42h/bafkreih6h46yr6senlf7nsfxv6iljt2eebsaj2joamkf6sfgjzbhmx2tti@jpeg)
September 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The docs reported on by @tbij.bsky.social give an unprecedented look into the workings of those that use legal actions and threats to silence criticism.
For instance, here the founder of Chelgate asks whether police officers could be sued for defamation, "it would be saying ‘put up, or shut up’."
For instance, here the founder of Chelgate asks whether police officers could be sued for defamation, "it would be saying ‘put up, or shut up’."
Was Carter Ruck anything more than a gun-for-hire for a cryptoscam? Without the Government actually doing something against #SLAPPs, the SRA can only do so much. We need an anti-SLAPP law without delay @tbij.bsky.social @edsiddons.bsky.social
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
September 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Was Carter Ruck anything more than a gun-for-hire for a cryptoscam? Without the Government actually doing something against #SLAPPs, the SRA can only do so much. We need an anti-SLAPP law without delay @tbij.bsky.social @edsiddons.bsky.social
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Glad to see Grok supportive of an anti-SLAPP law. I wonder what it thinks about his overlord's legal actions against Media Matters in Ireland, Texas and Singapore?!
September 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Glad to see Grok supportive of an anti-SLAPP law. I wonder what it thinks about his overlord's legal actions against Media Matters in Ireland, Texas and Singapore?!
As someone who was taught to eat with my hands properly not too long after mastering🍴this - from a goddamn Congressman - is disgraceful and indicative of a Republican party purely defined by racism.
June 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
As someone who was taught to eat with my hands properly not too long after mastering🍴this - from a goddamn Congressman - is disgraceful and indicative of a Republican party purely defined by racism.
It is shit like this that should remind you that the MAGA Republicans do not care about free speech or the 1st Amendment at all, so lets stop pretending.
June 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It is shit like this that should remind you that the MAGA Republicans do not care about free speech or the 1st Amendment at all, so lets stop pretending.
Looks like the @washingtonpost.com Editorial Board received the memo from chief Bezos
June 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Looks like the @washingtonpost.com Editorial Board received the memo from chief Bezos
This is the tweet that ABC suspended Terry Moran for after being pressured by the Trump administration.
If this isn't protected by the 1st amendment then it doesn't really mean much does it?
If this isn't protected by the 1st amendment then it doesn't really mean much does it?
June 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is the tweet that ABC suspended Terry Moran for after being pressured by the Trump administration.
If this isn't protected by the 1st amendment then it doesn't really mean much does it?
If this isn't protected by the 1st amendment then it doesn't really mean much does it?
The Norwegian cheese slicer god didn't like my tone. Managed to slice my hand slicing into a brown cheese block
June 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The Norwegian cheese slicer god didn't like my tone. Managed to slice my hand slicing into a brown cheese block
Me: Norwegian is a beautiful language
Norwegian:
Norwegian:
June 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Me: Norwegian is a beautiful language
Norwegian:
Norwegian:
Lillehammer has nailed capitalism, they have an entire shop dedicated to cheese slicers
June 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Lillehammer has nailed capitalism, they have an entire shop dedicated to cheese slicers
Join @indexoncensorship.org & Some Great Rewards tomorrow on the southside of Glasgow to stand up for Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, listen to his music and celebrate the courage of the Women, Life, Freedom movement www.somegreatreward.scot/news/were-st...
#Iran #Hiphop #humanrights #Glasgow
#Iran #Hiphop #humanrights #Glasgow
May 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Join @indexoncensorship.org & Some Great Rewards tomorrow on the southside of Glasgow to stand up for Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, listen to his music and celebrate the courage of the Women, Life, Freedom movement www.somegreatreward.scot/news/were-st...
#Iran #Hiphop #humanrights #Glasgow
#Iran #Hiphop #humanrights #Glasgow
As the world is upended I have been working on a fun if absurd side project - The Otherworld Times.
The central conceit is simple: if films invent worlds what are the investigative journalists in those worlds writing? otherworldtimes.wordpress.com
The central conceit is simple: if films invent worlds what are the investigative journalists in those worlds writing? otherworldtimes.wordpress.com
April 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
As the world is upended I have been working on a fun if absurd side project - The Otherworld Times.
The central conceit is simple: if films invent worlds what are the investigative journalists in those worlds writing? otherworldtimes.wordpress.com
The central conceit is simple: if films invent worlds what are the investigative journalists in those worlds writing? otherworldtimes.wordpress.com
Doing a weeding of the books ahead of redoing our floors and rediscovered this.
Thank god a free speech / protest crisis at Columbia is a thing of historical not contemporary concern, right!?
Thank god a free speech / protest crisis at Columbia is a thing of historical not contemporary concern, right!?
April 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Doing a weeding of the books ahead of redoing our floors and rediscovered this.
Thank god a free speech / protest crisis at Columbia is a thing of historical not contemporary concern, right!?
Thank god a free speech / protest crisis at Columbia is a thing of historical not contemporary concern, right!?
According to this Brussels advertising mash-up the true villain in the second season of The Last of Us is...Tintin
April 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
According to this Brussels advertising mash-up the true villain in the second season of The Last of Us is...Tintin
Here's the Scottish Tories under Findlay's leadership taking on the Poundshop-Orbán role targeting an NGO to smear their opponent.
Here's hoping the Tories never get close to power. This is shameful
Here's hoping the Tories never get close to power. This is shameful
April 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Here's the Scottish Tories under Findlay's leadership taking on the Poundshop-Orbán role targeting an NGO to smear their opponent.
Here's hoping the Tories never get close to power. This is shameful
Here's hoping the Tories never get close to power. This is shameful
Sometimes it is difficult to visualise the impact of censorship - how do you show something that doesn't exist?
But sometimes it is easy.
www.voanews.com/live/audio/119
📣 Solidarity with Voice of America and Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty 📣
But sometimes it is easy.
www.voanews.com/live/audio/119
📣 Solidarity with Voice of America and Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty 📣
March 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Sometimes it is difficult to visualise the impact of censorship - how do you show something that doesn't exist?
But sometimes it is easy.
www.voanews.com/live/audio/119
📣 Solidarity with Voice of America and Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty 📣
But sometimes it is easy.
www.voanews.com/live/audio/119
📣 Solidarity with Voice of America and Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty 📣
Yesterday a Georgian court ruled to keep Mzia Amaglobeli in detention. Today we reiterate our calls for her to be released #FreeMzia #Georgia
@coemediafreedom.bsky.social @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @pressfreedom.bsky.social @molenews1.bsky.social @fluturakusari.bsky.social
@coemediafreedom.bsky.social @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @pressfreedom.bsky.social @molenews1.bsky.social @fluturakusari.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Yesterday a Georgian court ruled to keep Mzia Amaglobeli in detention. Today we reiterate our calls for her to be released #FreeMzia #Georgia
@coemediafreedom.bsky.social @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @pressfreedom.bsky.social @molenews1.bsky.social @fluturakusari.bsky.social
@coemediafreedom.bsky.social @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @pressfreedom.bsky.social @molenews1.bsky.social @fluturakusari.bsky.social
The sister of the murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, corinnevella.bsky.social & Dinko Gruhonjic an embattled journalist from Serbia highlights the complex & evolving threats, perpetrators and tactics used to silence journalists across Europe @coemediafreedom.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The sister of the murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, corinnevella.bsky.social & Dinko Gruhonjic an embattled journalist from Serbia highlights the complex & evolving threats, perpetrators and tactics used to silence journalists across Europe @coemediafreedom.bsky.social