Former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard tried to push through a number of communications regulations in her short, unlamented term. This was in marked contrast to the Howard government’s laissez-faire approach of emphasising choice and self-regulation, both for ISPs and for families. As socialists do, Gillard wanted to take
Who hasn’t resisted the urge to throw something at the television during the news? Half-truths and omissions that support Jacinda the Wonderful and lies to demonstrate Orange Man Bad will do that to you. Viewers with less than a cursory interest in politics are so acclimatised to media opinion
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Andrew Torba news.gab.com According to reports the White House has a drafted an executive order to address social media censorship by targeting Section 230 of the CDA. If reporting on the current draft is correct then this is bad, very bad. It’s easy to get excited that
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So, Twitter is openly policing opinions, now? Twitter’s decision to slap a “fact check” on President Donald Trump’s tweets expressing his opinions is a game-changer. It’s an interesting strategy, because, for starters, it exposes beyond doubt the lie that these companies are “platforms” and not “publishers”. If
President Donald Trump The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy.Free speech is the bedrock of American democracy. Our Founding Fathers protected this sacred right
This week Twitter “fact-checked” President Trump’s tweets. This is something they have never done to him before or ever to ex-President Obama when he was President. Note the fact check box below his tweet in red: Trump’s tweet was subsequently ‘fact checked’ by Twitter, with the company putting
Graham Hill MA (Hons) LlB (Hons). In mid-March when COVID-19 was imminent, our Minister of Justice stated that the ‘hate speech’ legislation was to be brought forward. Ideas for legislative change have existed since 2017 but the impetus for action arose due to the mosque shootings on the 15th of
With the world obsessed by the Xi Plague, the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong has faded from the headlines. But that doesn’t mean that Hong Kong’s struggle against the Beijing jackboot has gone away. In fact, under cover of a distracted world, China has been stamping even harder
Dane Giraud Spokesperson Free Speech Coalition At the Free Speech Coalition, we believe that nothing promotes the health of democracy more than when people with opposing views sit down together and have a conversation. Last week, I sat down with Daphna Whitmore, editor for Redline blog, for a broad-ranging discussion
The University of Queensland is doubling down on its legal threats against student activist Drew Pavlou. Already facing expulsion for leading anti-Beijing protests on campus, Pavlou is now being threatened with criminal prosecution by the University’s lawyers. In an interview for The BFD, Drew says that he has attracted
