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
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
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,
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
Graham Hill Joe Biden has called for “healing and unity” while Democrats, AOC, the MSM and its operatives call for blacklists and purges to end careers, ostracise, exclude and persecute all those who supported President Trump and work for the federal government. Unity, it seems, means compliance with critical theory,
Eliora Ms Bao Choy, a freelance journalist in Hong Kong, was arrested at her home on Tuesday 3 November 2020 for allegedly making a false declaration to access vehicle ownership records. She was trying to trace those present at the scene of the Yeun Long attacks for a documentary programme
covidplanb.co.nz Sunetra Gupta, a founding signatory of the Great Barrington Declaration, wrote for the Daily Mail. Here is an edited set of excerpts. I was utterly unprepared for the onslaught of insults, personal criticism, intimidation and threats that met our proposal. The level of vitriol and hostility, not
As I write this, polls are yet to close on the US election, but an interesting tidbit to emerge from, of all places, the New York Times, is that voters for Joe Biden are most likely to be women named “Karen”. You can’t make this up. But this raises
Today’s crybaby Sir Stevo Timothy ( A popular woke comedian) really does have something worth crying about. Crybaby Stevo didn’t care about censorship or freedom of speech until he was censored and his freedom of speech was taken away. In fact, he didn’t believe those who were warning
Michael Kirke mercatornet.com Michael Kirke was born in Ireland. In 1966 he graduated from University College Dublin (History and Politics). In that year he began working on the sub-editorial desk of The Evening… More by Michael Kirke Given our strange and uncertain current political and cultural landscape, it
The cross-over voters who joined diehard Labour voters in giving Jacinda Ardern’s incoming Labour Government the first-ever single-party majority since we saddled ourselves with MMP in 1996 may live to regret their short-sighted impetuosity. They may well get more than they bargained for. The 9-
Starting late Monday night and then continuing on all Tuesday morning I was sent a number of e-mails by members of a Twitter lynch mob. They disagreed with an opinion expressed on Twitter by one of our Insight: Politics columnists and expected me as The BFD editor to cancel
