Young Woman Thrown Off Vancouver Transit for Button, Ridiculous Censorship Debate Ensues

This past week, 21-year-old Jean Wharf (pictured above) was thrown off of a Greater Vancouver skytrain, allegedly for wearing a “Fuck Yoga” button on her bag. When the skytrain police asked her to remove the offending button, she refused and was told she could not get back on the train. People everywhere are in an uproar, including Vancouver’s Arts and Culture magazine The George Straight, claiming that this is a terrible violation of the right to free speech and is an example of heinous and unfair censorship.

The Straight reports:

The B.C. Civil Liberties Association has taken up her cause and filed a complaint with the office of the police complaint …

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