These new powers will do little to dissuade terrorists (who already operate outside the bounds of the law), but will primarily restrict the free speech and activities of regular Australians, who, when in doubt, will self-censor to minimise risk of prosecution.
Allowing controversial speakers into Australia provides an alternative to the mainstream media and this is good for a diversity of perspectives.
Those who dare challenge elite opinion cartels will always pay the price. But they can live and die with a clean conscience. What matters more?
If we cannot talk openly about trends without being shouted down, we will never fix the underlying causes. Silence does not protect communities. Truth, handled responsibly, just might.
Free speech concerns have left the legislation in tatters.
X is simply the space the managerial class can’t control.
When the architect of the Christchurch Call appears to abandon those principles when applied to a different community, it raises fundamental questions about whether those principles were ever truly universal, or merely convenient.
Linehan will be honored alongside Harvard Law professor and First Amendment warrior Alan Dershowitz and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
A true commitment to academic freedom means defending expression even when it’s unpopular or offensive. That’s the price of intellectual integrity in a free society.
With just over a month to go, I feel like film director Mike Leigh trying to justify his improvisational technique. There’s a basic idea, a few actors, a location and the outline of a script. That’s it.
Authoritarians across the Atlantic are taking aim at Americans’ First Amendment right.
Societies that lose the courage to speak plainly about violent ideologies become more brittle, more divided and more vulnerable to manipulation. History does not judge kindly those who chose euphemism over truth, especially when the warning signs are impossible to miss.
The State Department will not tolerate “extraterritorial overreach by foreign censors targeting American speech,” the document said.
When we forget that offence is taken, not given, we trade our emotional autonomy for a fragile comfort – and in doing so, we risk silencing not only those we disagree with, but ultimately, ourselves.
How did we reach a moment where a prime minister saying she wanted to punch another MP in the face is seen as acceptable by many?
Governments are tightening control over what citizens can say online. The worldwide slide toward punishing speech has profound consequences for open societies.
