A voice for women and children amid rising intolerance. Linehan represents something vital. Regardless of the outcome of his trial, his determination to protect the rights of women and children remains both admirable and necessary.
Threats from National and Labour parties and Big Business NZ Incorporated.
Censorship is often less about making the world a safer place for minorities and more about indulging our own capacity for cruelty.
The real goal is to shut Substack (as we’ve known it) down – which must mean the truth bombs its correspondents are launching every day are starting to hit too close to key targets.
Comedy plays a more important role in society: the ability to bring people together. Nothing brings people together like laughter.
The flow of information must be controlled, and they need your tax dollars to do it.
The censoring of doctors – even the ‘expert’ public health ones.
Even when backed by science. The New Zealand Parliament under Ardern and now Luxon has shown itself unable to tolerate questions. The main loser has been the New Zealand public.
Policies that are subjective, undefined and leave room for interpretation or constant expansion deserve greater scrutiny as these are the ones that become slippery slopes.
Family First’s submission on the Law Commission’s consultation around ‘hate crime’.
The measure I’m most concerned about is clause 18, which will amend the Equality Act to force employers to “take all reasonable steps” to insulate their staff from “harassment” by “third parties”.
USAID is better in the waste bin and demolition derbies are exciting, but nuance can get lost in the frenzy and targets missed as a result.
If governments can compel tech companies to break encryption, digital privacy risks becoming a privilege reserved for the ideologically compliant – not an inalienable right.
Science requires us to challenge received ‘truth’ and seek out better evidence. But that questioning challenges our baked-in respect for authority.
All too often important effects are in the hands of people who have no appreciation for the potential importance of what they control.
Germany’s prosecutions of meme-posters provide a chilling example of what happens when governments dictate what counts as ‘hate.’
