Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's been given an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. She used her speech to rally against disinformation, and called on social media giants to limit its spread by 'recognising their power and to acting on it'. pic.twitter.com/4HBQeb2OWv — Jason Walls (@Jasonwalls92)
The Looking Glass thelookingglass.co.nz This article was first published at The Looking Glass and is republished here with permission. Warning Long Read. 3307 words. ‘Dangerous speech’, especially speech from those opposed to or negatively affected by the Government’s covid response who protested at Parliament earlier this year,
Joseph Vazquez newsbusters.org Joseph is the MRC Assistant Editor for Business & Free Speech America. He graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Political Science from The George Washington University in 2018. In June 2019, he completed an exclusive fellowship with the Hertog Foundation, where he participated in
Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practising attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games and spending time with her cats. All eyes will be on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas now that the Texas
Jose Nino mises.org Jose Nino is a freelance writer based in Austin, Texas. Politicians thoroughly enjoy times of war. Periods of bellicosity are when the most power-hungry members of the political class indulge in their most depraved political fantasies. The Russo-Ukrainian War has been no exception to this trend.
8wire 8wire.news Information Opinion The girls at femmo propaganda rag ‘Stuff’ have willingly signed up for the B Corp movement. B Corp is an organization that issues a wokeness certificate to any company wishing to leverage it as a marketing or virtue signalling tool. It measures things such as
Ron Paul ronpaulinstitute.org Any doubt that many progressives have abandoned their commitment to free speech was erased by the hysterical reaction to Elon Musk’s effort to purchase Twitter and return the company to its roots as a free speech zone. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and “woke” neocon
Would you allow the State to decide what is misinformation and what isn’t, to suppress speech it considers “dangerous”? Well that is exactly what is happening. In an interview on CNN’s State of The Union, anchor Dana Bash asked DHS [United States Department of Homeland Security] Secretary Alejandro
In the latest of her Please Explain cartoons, Pauline Hanson tackles the keyboard warriors. As the class tries to enter the room to hold a debate, they’re blocked by three keyboard warriors, who accuse them of hurting their feelings. Hanson ultimately shows the class that they can simply walk
On the surface of it, it surely seems strange that the left are so triggered by the idea of a tech billionaire buying Twitter. I mean, it’s not like Twitter’s founding owner is a billionaire. Or that Facebook is also owned by a billionaires. Or that mainstream media
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002 and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 A speech prepared for delivery at Massey University, 5 May 2022 Warning Long read. 3405 words. Ladies and gentlemen This was supposed to be the third speech in
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Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. In his classic dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell famously wrote, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine
Michael Tracey brownstone.org Michael Tracey is a roving journalist who posts at Substack. It’s always been easy to slag off Twitter. When I first joined the platform 13 years ago, if you ever tried to explain what “Twitter” is to people, they’d respond with something like, “So
Oiwan Lam globalvoices.org Oiwan Lam is a media activist, researcher and educator currently based in Hong Kong. A six-minute video on the lockdown in Shanghai titled “Voices of April” went viral and sparked a rare showing of large-scale online protests after the Chinese censor handed down a comprehensive content
