Has Orwell’s 1984 Become Reality?
The more the process is ramped up, the louder critical voices become (and protests are likely to occur) and, correlatively, the more anxious the neo-fascists become, to close the net around citizens of the world.
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Digital ID, Free Speech and Our Children
Today, we are wrapping our children up in digital cotton wool! What are the implications? I ask you.
Offence Can Only Be Taken, Not Given
When we forget that offence is taken, not given, we trade our emotional autonomy for a fragile comfort – and in doing so, we risk silencing not only those we disagree with, but ultimately, ourselves.
The Global Rise of Online Speech Policing
Governments are tightening control over what citizens can say online. The worldwide slide toward punishing speech has profound consequences for open societies.
A Discussion on the Irony of Relativism
Science embraces uncertainty. Scientists formulate theories to explain natural phenomena based on the available evidence. But they do not expect those theories to stand for all time.
Nurse Faces Misconduct Charges for Her Views
She says they are now moving toward punitive action that could leave her unemployed by January, when her hearing is due to take place.
COP30: The Climate Empire Strikes Back
UN pharisees are brooking no dissent to its climate narrative.
Our Free Speech Is Under Fire
Former judge David Harvey forecasts fresh online regulation push.
The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 20 – Jillaine Heather
In Episode 20 of The Good Oil Podcast, Cam sits down with Free Speech Union CEO Jillaine Heather, a forthright voice in New Zealand’s free-expression battles.
Is This Really the Freedom Win They Think It Is?
Judges deigning to let you speak within prescribed limits is not free speech.
This Is the Gentle Tyranny
There’s a perfect word for this system, a system that reaches into every corner of your existence, from your speech to how you spend your private life, and justifies itself all as being ‘for your own good’.
Freedoms Exist to Be Exercised
My contribution to a recent legal symposium on religious freedom and belief, at BYU university in Utah.
Damien Grant Nails the BSA’s Overreach: Time to Pull the Plug on These Broadcasting Busybodies
Let the market sort it out: bad content dies a natural death when punters switch off. Time for the government to listen to their own minister’s old words and give the BSA the boot.