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Your BFD Questions Answered

Your BFD Questions Answered

One of the many hats I wear is Customer Service Manager. This article contains a few of the common questions I get asked and their answers. Feel free to ask any other questions you may have in the comment section as my goal is to help as many people as

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The Great Deplatforming of Matariki 2021

The Great Deplatforming of Matariki 2021

Newsroom journalist Marc Daalder appears to celebrate and support Cancel Culture. Deplatforming is a truly despicable act that not only silences citizens exercising their legitimate democratic rights, but often also involves slander and extortion of third parties… threats to business reputations and results in the devastation of peoples lives. Tim

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One Law for All versus ‘Protected Groups’

One Law for All versus ‘Protected Groups’

I used to think that I lived in a country with laws that protected all citizens equally. Yesterday we published on The BFD evidence that, when it comes to discriminating against people based on their race, the law has made an exception: to allow discrimination on the basis of race

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My Submission on the Proposed Hate Speech Law

My Submission on the Proposed Hate Speech Law

Note: You can make your own submission against the Hate Speech proposals by going here and either emailing your views or filling out the online form. Public submissions close on August 6. Proposal 1: Change the language in the incitement provisions so that they protect more groups that are targeted

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They Did Not Come to His Rescue

They Did Not Come to His Rescue

Blogger Tim Wikiriwhi recently pointed out that the ACT Party and the Free Speech Union were conspicuously missing in action when  New Zealand YouTuber Lee Williams fell victim to a vicious cancel culture mob. If only popular speech spoken by popular people is going to be defended then it is

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NZ’s Social Media Vigilantes

NZ’s Social Media Vigilantes

Vigilantes rarely recognise that they are vigilantes. They see themselves as doing God’s work and get a real rush of power every time they successfully destroy a target’s life and livelihood. The attacks currently happening in New Zealand are not happening randomly. Radical activists name the targets and

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Why ‘Stirring up Hatred’ Cannot Be Successfully Defined

Why ‘Stirring up Hatred’ Cannot Be Successfully Defined

In New Zealand, we already have adequate legal protection from speech that incites violence or murder. It is already illegal to incite others to kill or physically harm an individual or group. It is already illegal for a person to threaten to kill or harm another person. This is one

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

I came across this strange man on Arkles Strand, standing on the beach holding a walking stick. He was covered in seaweed and had attracted a curious crowd. Given that he is the creation of a beachcomber making the most of the seaweed and a large piece of driftwood thrown

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NZ Military Mission: Eliminate Flatulent Cows

NZ Military Mission: Eliminate Flatulent Cows

Information Satire Hat tip Babylonbee.com New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has added NZ dairy cows to the list of world recognised terrorist groups. “This is literally a life or death situation”, she said while wearing a frowny face and frantically waving her arms about. “Cow flatulence is a

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What Does an Average BFD Reader Look Like?
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What Does an Average BFD Reader Look Like?

Have you ever wondered what an average reader of The BFD looks like? I know I have, which is why I created three polls to get a snapshot of the demographics of our current audience. The first poll asked the gender of our readers and we had 998 responses. So

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Crybaby of the Day

Crybaby of the Day

Matthew Tukaki is a Maori activist who uses divisive rhetoric. He is a polarising figure who is agitating for Maori separatism and apartheid in New Zealand, fomenting racial discord while accusing those who oppose his agenda of being the ones causing a racial divide. While he is quick to accuse

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Your Subscriptions Help Make Us Cancel Proof

We are essentially a lone voice in a sea of left-wing voices. Do you really want us to disappear or would you rather we powered up our voice? Cancel culture makes people and organisations vulnerable. Activists go after organisations’ ad revenue by complaining to their advertisers. They go after individual’

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Judith Collins is clearly over the target, given yesterday’s opinion piece by Joel Maxwell where he tied himself in knots in his attempts to smear Judith and justify the unjustifiable. How did he counter Judith Collins’s statements? Did he have facts to back up his attack? Nope, all

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Is the MSM Refusing to Publish Your Opinion Pieces?

Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome

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Crybaby of the Week

Crybaby of the Week

Today’s crybaby of the week has turned herself into a victim, so much so that she feels that it is an attack on Maori to debate issues relating to separatism and equal rights for both Maori and Pakeha. […] I recall that the people who adorn these walls were the

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Why Golriz Ghahraman Is Right Even When She Is Wrong

Why Golriz Ghahraman Is Right Even When She Is Wrong

Golriz Ghahraman has no idea how right she is when she makes her many factually incorrect claims about the Israel – Palestinian territories conflict. My favourite claim of hers is her claim about Apartheid, and she is so so right: it does exist. Yes, there is a place where one race

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