We’re Closing Due to Threats
Threats from National and Labour parties and Big Business NZ Incorporated.
Censorship
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.
Our Submission on This Proposed Paper
Family First’s submission on the Law Commission’s consultation around ‘hate crime’.
‘Banter Ban’ for UK Pubs
The measure I’m most concerned about is clause 18, which will amend the Equality Act to force employers to “take all reasonable steps” to insulate their staff from “harassment” by “third parties”.
The Demolition Derby of the USAID
USAID is better in the waste bin and demolition derbies are exciting, but nuance can get lost in the frenzy and targets missed as a result.
Trump Compares Starmer’s Britain to Communist China
If governments can compel tech companies to break encryption, digital privacy risks becoming a privilege reserved for the ideologically compliant – not an inalienable right.
The Scientific Fallacy That Spawned the Absolutism
Science requires us to challenge received ‘truth’ and seek out better evidence. But that questioning challenges our baked-in respect for authority.
The Destruction of the Great Library
All too often important effects are in the hands of people who have no appreciation for the potential importance of what they control.
‘Hate Speech’ Bans Become a Weapon of the Powerful
Germany’s prosecutions of meme-posters provide a chilling example of what happens when governments dictate what counts as ‘hate.’
