A Law That Can Be Defeated With a Pen
A critique of the Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill
A critique of the Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill
When people can speak freely across borders, traditional state propaganda loses its grip, making the subjugation of the internet the primary imperative for modern political control.
No matter how often she loses at taxpayer expense, she remains unelected and untouchable.
What you are witnessing in real time with Brian Tamaki is the further erosion of free speech, and the persecution of a person for his beliefs. What happens when you say something just publicly enough to have the cops turn up at your door? Don’t think it would happen to you? Think again.
Universities have become engines of ideological reproduction, increasingly insulated from scrutiny and detached from the society they are meant to serve. They will not regain public trust without serious reform.
It’s more than the public shaming of unimportant people – it’s a warning that they can do it to you, too.
I am tired of it. Millions of us are. And no amount of rainbow branding or speech policing will make the facts go away.
Let’s be clear. Auckland Council doesn’t own council venues. Ratepayers own them. Auckland Council can’t stop people using them without good reason. And having opposing ideological views isn’t one of them.
We need a state confident enough to say that no mosque, church, temple, synagogue, prophet, scripture, imam, pastor or ideology is above criticism. Not one.
If we take everything that is said too seriously, we are in danger of completely losing our sense of humour.
The Karen Class destroys a good man, just for speaking plainly.
I’m saying it without my name attached, in a publication built specifically to defend my right to say it with my name attached. If that strikes you as a contradiction, it should.
From making the population stupid to replacing the natives and then acting surprised when it explodes in your face.