Censorship
They Demand Control, All Right
eKaren says it out loud: “We demand and deserve control”.
Kids Won’t Dance if Everyone Is Watching
If Tall Poppy syndrome already discouraged us to aspire to better things, surveillance could murder ambition while it’s still in the cradle.
Censorship Fears Over Plan to Fine Social Media Companies
Opposition communications spokesperson Sarah Henderson calls it a “serious threat to free speech”, while coalition leader Angus Taylor says he is “deeply skeptical” and that he fears it is going to be an attempt to “censor social media”.
Fauci Didn’t Create Faucism. He Exposed It
The deeper threat to liberty isn’t one powerful expert, but a society willing to surrender its judgment to prevailing opinion.
This Bill Is a Trojan Horse
The farmers in that 1989 meeting thought the extreme examples were absurd. They were not. The question now is whether we recognise the same pattern while there is still time to constrain it.
A Law That Can Be Defeated With a Pen
A critique of the Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill
Freedom of Speech Is Dying in Europe
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.
eKaren Is up to Her Usual Tricks
No matter how often she loses at taxpayer expense, she remains unelected and untouchable.
Guns and Destiny
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.
The Capture of Academia: Why I Had To Write This Book
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.
Cheap Media Voyeurism Feeds the Surveillance Culture
It’s more than the public shaming of unimportant people – it’s a warning that they can do it to you, too.
Berlin’s Pride Bloodbath and the Suicide of Common Sense
I am tired of it. Millions of us are. And no amount of rainbow branding or speech policing will make the facts go away.