As I reported recently, the Australian government was censoring social media posts at a rate of knots during Covid. In less than three years, the government censored over 4000 posts, for supposedly “harmful misinformation”. I’m sure you won’t be at all surprised to find that that was a
A common argument from the anti-free speech left is that “it’s only censorship if the government is doing it!” This, they claim, means that when social media companies censor speech on their platforms, it’s not really censorship. This is wrong, of course, on several points. Firstly, while private
Family First In a disturbing display of media censorship, the major daily Newspapers have all banded together to pull the publication of a full page advertisement at the 11th hour. A nationwide campaign asking the simple question “What is a woman?” was launched yesterday. But the NZ Herald did everything
Robert Kogon Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. brownstone.org “L’Etat, c’est moi” – “I am the state” – Louis XIV is supposed to have said. And in a contemporary echo of that famous phrase, EU Internal Market
As I wrote recently, even Big Brother himself, Mark Zuckerberg, is raising an eyebrow at Anthony Albanese’s Orwellian “online misinformation” bill. The bill would allow the government to arbitrarily declare anything online as “harmful misinformation”, while exempting themselves from the same scrutiny. The bill would also outlaw speech that
In a previous article, I challenged you to do something about woke Hollywood. It seems that one film could show conservatives that complain about the film industry how to beat Hollywood. In the article I mentioned a film called Sound Of Freedom produced by Jim Caviezel. With the tagline ‘God’
Technically, it’s a fallacy to judge an idea on the metric of just who is endorsing it. Still, there are some actors who are so resolutely wrong that it’s a pretty safe bet that anything they like is a very bad thing indeed. One such bad actor is
familyfirst.org.nz This article was first published on The Daily Examiner Spark NZ and One NZ (previously Vodafone) have engaged with controversial far-left trans-activist Shaneel Lal in extraordinary engagements to attack women’s rights. The bizarre commentary appears to support Mr Lal’s call to suppress Kiwis’ voices based
What is it with Labor governments and Orwellian censorship? Last time, it was Julia Gillard trying to set up a government censor for mainstream media. This time, it’s Anthony Albanese, trying to do the same for social media. Unsurprisingly, both Gillard and Albanese hail from Labor’s Socialist Left
Have you ever heard of Newsguard? Nah? Neither had we until we received an email from Amina McCauley, an intern at Newsguard, demanding we comply with their demands. They wanted answers and they wanted them now! Who is Newsguard? Well, it seems they are the new censors on the block,
Rebekah Barnett brownstone.org ‘30 minutes of truth bombs’ is how one Twitter user described Liberal Democrat John Ruddick’s maiden speech to the New South Wales (NSW) Parliament, last Wednesday 28 June. Indeed, Ruddick, who left the Liberal Party in 2021 after public disagreements over the Party’s handling
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In a recent post, I pondered whether Anthony Albanese’s proposed online censor would punish politicians for their lies. Well, we have the answer to that one: as is too often the case, the political class are exempting themselves from the draconian rules they foist on we commoners. In a
Matt Judd Conspiracy Theory. Dictionary.com: conspiracy theory [ kuhn-spir-uh-see theer-ee ] noun 1. A theory that rejects the standard explanation for an event and instead credits a covert group or organization with carrying out a secret plot: One popular conspiracy theory accuses environmentalists of sabotage in last year’s mine collapse.
Joe Schaeffer Political Columnist at LibertyNation.com Joe Schaeffer is a veteran journalist with 20+ years’ experience. He spent 15 years with The Washington Times, including 8+ years as Managing Editor of the newspaper’s popular National Weekly Edition. Striving to be a natural health nut, he considers staring at
