There’s a wonderful exchange in the Coen brothers’ classic O Brother, Where Art Thou, when the trio of escaped convicts seek shelter with one’s brother. Who promptly betrays them to the police. But Pete Hogwallop (John Turturro) is less enraged by his brother’s betrayal, than by the
It’s been interesting watching the discussion around ‘misinformation’, ‘disinformation’ and ‘extremist content’ online. In fact, this is a new concept that has only recently entered the public discussion around digital technologies and social media. I think it is remarkable that our political elites consider them such a threat to
What hope is there for freedom of speech, when even members of a party supposedly founded on the ideals of classical liberalism are jumping on the censorship bandwagon? Because, strip away the attempts at emotional blackmail, that’s precisely what former Liberal MP Nicolle Flint is proposing. To an extent,
Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk A priest has been charged for breaching buffer zone rules by praying silently and holding a sign with the words “praying for freedom of speech” near a closed abortion clinic in Birmingham. He also faces a further charge for an “Unborn Lives Matter”
William Spruance brownstone.org William Spruance is a practicing attorney and a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. The ideas expressed in the article are entirely his own and not necessarily those of his employer. Wednesday, congress held a hearing on Twitter’s censorship of The New York Post and
William Spruance brownstone.org William Spruance is a practicing attorney and a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. The ideas expressed in the article are entirely his own and not necessarily those of his employer. War benefits Leviathan. Abstract opposition allows leaders to seize power amid the fear of the
Renata Kiss newsbusters.org Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said the quiet part out loud at Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on The Twitter Files. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held its first Twitter Files hearing Wednesday morning. The hearing featured testimony from former Twitter Head of
Jess Gill fee.org Jess Gill is a fellow with FEE’s Henry Hazlitt Project for Educational Journalism. A resident of Manchester in the United Kingdom, she is the host and director of Reasoned UK where she makes daily videos on British politics from a libertarian perspective. She is also
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com As we settle into a new year and new leader, we optimistically look with hope to the horizon of better times ahead, yet already we are once again facing the stronghold of censorship in our lives, as the grip tightens on
Harrison Griffiths fee.org Harrison Griffiths is Communications Officer at the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free-market think tank in London. For the past decade, freedom of speech has been at the forefront of America’s culture war, and it should not be controversial to say that both sides
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Dr Emanuel Garcia and Dr Matt Shelton have become familiar faces to many over the last few years, and in this latest doctor to doctor uncensored conversation they share their perspectives on the covid catastrophe, early treatment suppression, the propaganda, politics
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Further to New Zealand’s concerns about the Federation of State Medical Board’s (FSMB) overarching and unethical domination of medical care, a recent Epoch Times episode of Crossroads with Joshua Philipp discussed the issue from an American perspective. Philipp interviewed
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is an American nonprofit organisation conceived in May 2021 in response to the global crisis created by policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. The mission of the Brownstone Institute is to understand
NB Staff newsbusters.org Big Tech is playing games with speech. Its primary concern is with neutralizing conservative influence online. It does this by preventing users from hearing or seeing a message that the left disagrees with. “Big Tech kept information from users on social media over 275 million times
Tiger Charles Bean – If people really knew – one man’s struggle to report the Great War and tell the truth by Ross Coulthart, Harper Collins. Censorship is nothing new. Censorship by whom we might call the “good guys” is nothing new either. By censoring the message, the truth can be
David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. Many of us are familiar with the ideological and political biases of mainstream media, in particular the media’s uncritical embrace of leftist commitments on issues like inclusive
