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Social Media Is Corrosive to Trust

Warning Long read: 1,401 words The Orwellian future is upon us, where slogans dominate political discourse, people with alternate views are silenced and truth no longer matters. We can see the advent of Newspeak with the government’s “Nudge Unit” and the creation of other organisations with equally Orwellian

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Here at The BFD we currently have writers based in New Zealand, Australia, Israel, Hong Kong and the UK but we have readers from many other countries. This article is a shout out to writers in other countries asking you to please consider writing an article for The BFD telling

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Hey, Leftie, What’s a Person’s White Skin Got to Do With It?

Arthur Recently Professor Richard Jackson wrote a Newsroom article about New Zealand men intending to take up arms in Ukraine against Russia. The full article is available here. Extremist or freedom fighter? NZ’s racist double standard (msn.com) It states: The Government’s implied consent of Kiwi men vowing

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Copping Flak Is Par for the Course

Copping Flak Is Par for the Course

It’s interesting that politicians are now concerned about abuse – possibly because they support the new proposals to oblige social media platforms to restrict speech and for tougher penalties under the 2015 Harmful Digital Communications Act. However, it should be obvious to everyone that this abuse is normal; it is

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Outlook for Transparency? Your Guess Is as Good as Mine

Jacinda Ardern once famously stated that her government would be the most transparent ever. That, like her claim to never tell lies, was a lie. Transparency, for her government, has become an optional extra, and nothing more than a slogan to use when they are about to lie. See what

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