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So This Conservative Comic Goes on Social Media and …

So This Conservative Comic Goes on Social Media and …

Christian Toto realclearinvestigations.com It’s a situation so funny that a growing number of ostracized comics forgot to laugh: Conservative-leaning material, they say, is increasingly subject to arbitrary online censorship by Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media giants — treatment that appears to have no other explanation except

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The Dr Seuss Delistings: Cancellation or Cleaning House?

Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young

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Open Letter to the NZ Herald

Open Letter to the NZ Herald

Administrator bassettbrashandhide.com Good Afternoon With regard to Michael Bassett’s deleted column, “Racism on a grand scale,” I note that you have persisted in displaying a response to it from Kelly Jensen. He or she claims: “To begin with, Dr Bassett takes issue with the new Aotearoa New Zealand

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Can Delivery Contractors Now Burn Your Mail?

Can Delivery Contractors Now Burn Your Mail?

The Ponderer Stuff ran an article yesterday about a woman who was disgusted her 11-year-old daughter was asked to deliver an “extreme religious publication” on her paper round. Because they disagreed with the publication, rather than delivering it (as her daughter is legally and contractually obliged to do,

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Open Letter to the Leader of the Opposition

Open Letter to the Leader of the Opposition

John Rofe Dear Leader of The Opposition, I favour the use of technology and a re-emphasis on renewable energy as the best means to a sustainable future for New Zealand’s children and grandchildren. I deplore the conspiracies of those who are party to the UN IPCC climate fraud,

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Free Speech & the NZ Herald

Free Speech & the NZ Herald

Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com I have always believed strongly in free speech. So did my university teachers. I recall my professor saying to me: “I might disagree fundamentally with what you say, but I fought in the War for your right to be able to say it”. About a month

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Dr Seuss Cancelled

Dr Seuss Cancelled

It took them a while but the social justice warriors have finally tweaked that Dr Seuss books are raaacist.  /sarc Six Dr. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” — will stop being published because of racist and insensitive

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The Demise of Freedom of Speech

Across the entire planet, free speech has surreptitiously been under attack for many years. Slowly but surely, one small chip at a time, the thin end of the wedge has chiseled the tiniest of cracks into a chasm of Grand Canyon proportions where we perch on the edge, pushing back

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The Article They Don’t Want You to Read

The Article They Don’t Want You to Read

Both the NZ Herald and the Northland Age published and then memory-holed the below article. At The BFD we do not support censorship or cancel culture so have obtained permission to re-publish the article so that our audience can make up their own minds. The original headline of

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An Article the NZ Herald & the Northland Age Don’t Want You to Read

Screenshot The BFD Dr Michael Bassett’s column referred to below has been removed from the Northland Age website. Upon review, its unacceptable views did not meet our standards. We apologise for its publication. Northland Age – NZ Herald Suppression continues apace of historical opinions that do not conform to the

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