When Ideas Become Too Dangerous to Platform
Foster’s message was a warning – about how powerful institutions can manipulate public perception, weaponise fear, and suppress dissent, all while cloaking themselves in the language of public good.
Censorship
What’s Driving This Cancel Culture
Cultivating a culture of courage, a willingness to hear one another’s ideas, can throw a wrench into the whole censorious groupthink machine.
Follow the Silenced: The Untold Story
This deals clearly with the reality of vaccine injuries and how the medical system failed to inform the public in order to protect the vaccine push, the statistical evidence of the wide scale of harms, and the attempts to silence the media, the vaccine injured and doctors who were whistleblowers.
Japan Rides the Censorship Bandwagon
Freedom of expression is a matter much more significant than words.
The Nonsense of This ‘Banter Ban’
Some colleagues and I will be proposing various amendments to the Employment Rights Bill in the Lords in an effort to scrap the ‘banter ban’.
In Defence of Graham Linehan
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.
We’re Closing Due to Threats
Threats from National and Labour parties and Big Business NZ Incorporated.
Free Speech Is Essential to Our Human Dignity
Censorship is often less about making the world a safer place for minorities and more about indulging our own capacity for cruelty.
The Assault on Substack Takes Shape
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.
This Is a Warning
Comedy plays a more important role in society: the ability to bring people together. Nothing brings people together like laughter.
Left Librarians Are Playing the Victim Card
The flow of information must be controlled, and they need your tax dollars to do it.
The Soviet-Style Censorship of NZ Doctors
The censoring of doctors – even the ‘expert’ public health ones.
Govt Moves to Delete People Asking Questions
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.
Slippery Slopes and When to Be Concerned
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.