Facebook’s megalomaniacal arrogance seems to know no bounds. With its notorious “fact-checkers” (so-called), Facebook is declaring itself the final arbiter of truth. Especially scientific truth. A core tenet of science is freedom of inquiry. Scientists must be free to publish and, more importantly, to discuss what others publish. As
Jeff Deist mises.org YouTube, the dominant video platform owned by Google, decided yesterday to remove a Mises Institute video. This decision apparently lasts for all eternity, cannot be appealed to an actual human, and comes with this friendly admonition: “Because it’s the first time, this is just a
Hong Kong Free Press globalvoices.org “What Animal Crossing represented was not just entertainment […]” The following post was written by Candice Chau and originally published on Hong Kong Free Press on November 21, 2020. This edited version is republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. Japanese video game
Simon Black Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile sovereignman.com Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Monday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. ACLU and Professor Team
The Pete Evans Kristallnacht that occurred this week, almost exactly 82 years after the original, was instructive and informative, don’t you think? The torching of the man’s reputation and smashing of his business an episode of ugly mob-rule the type of which the thugs and goons that composed
In case you don’t know, Pete Evans is an Australian celebrity chef and judge. He also happens to be one of the latest to be cancelled because of a remark or tweet. The Warehouse will stop selling the work of controversial Australian chef Pete Evans but his books and
Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com I chanced upon this photo in my hometown’s FB Page and was struck by the metaphor for our time that it represents. Presently, Cancel Culture is in full swing and is replacing accepted societal norms with the Globalist’s new or required norm. In the
William Huang William Huang is a product of the one-child policy as he is the only son in the family. Born and raised in China, it is only when he went overseas to study that he had an epiphany, realizing just how much damage this policy has done to the
Modern-day book burners have been busy this month and have successfully de-platformed two authors for the crime of posting memes or opinions on social media that the modern-day book burners don’t like. Since Christmas is around the corner and we are all looking for some great holiday reading I
Nicholas Coppel lens.monash.edu Since the advent of web-based social media platforms, the creation and dissemination of information is no longer in the hands of a few. Citizens can now simultaneously be creators, consumers and spreaders of content. The analytics and algorithms of social media mean citizens have a
If universities are breeding the leaders of the future, then we’re facing a horrifying and intellectually impoverished, darkened future. The Enlightenment is over, folks: the Inquisitors have won. In the 1960s, university students were the spear-carriers of the Free Speech Movement. Today, their children and grandchildren are tearing it
The co-ordinated worldwide march on freedom of expression took another nasty turn yesterday, yet again (predictably) to the left, with the eviction of The Conservative Treehouse (TCH) — a pro-Republican site with a strong Christian faith bent — from WordPress, not for any rule violation, not for any inflammatory statements, not because
The NZ Herald, like legacy media everywhere, is trying to get creative in order to increase their revenue. I received the following email from them yesterday. Hi Juana Commenting is back on nzherald.co.nz and our Apple and Android apps! As a Registered user, you’re able to join
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Michael Rectenwald mises.org/wire/google-election Michael Rectenwald was a Professor of Liberal Studies at New York University (retired). [This is the transcript of the eponymous talk presented at the Mises Institute’s Ron Paul Symposium on November 7, 2020, in Angleton, Texas.] “Don’t be evil” may no longer
