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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

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

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NZ Hate Speech Legislation

NZ Hate Speech Legislation

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

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Beijing’s Bully-Boys in HK Parliament

Beijing’s Bully-Boys in HK Parliament

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

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The Language Police & an Interview with Daphna Whitmore

The Language Police & an Interview with Daphna Whitmore

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

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University’s New Legal Threat for China Critic

University’s New Legal Threat for China Critic

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

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Dear Prime Minister Ardern,

Dear Prime Minister Ardern,

Dear Prime Minister Ardern, An open letter to yourself, Members of Parliament, and Government: As ministers of the Gospel, ordained and appointed by God, we write, not in the spirit of those wanting to rebel or revolt but as those who have the highest regard for you and your God-given

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Has the Prime Minister Gone Too Far?

Has the Prime Minister Gone Too Far?

Dane Giraud Spokesperson Free Speech Coalition This week we have a new episode of the Free Speech Coalition podcast. Patrick Corish sat down with Dr Steve Elers, professor of communications at Massey University. Dr Elers recently published an article criticising some of the claims made by Jacinda Ardern during her

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

The first article on the right was from a press release and it was rewritten within hours. The re-written article is on the left and the original article is on the right. Guest writer Justin Knight wrote an article about this yesterday, “How Free is Our Press Really? You Will

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Blasphemy Revisited

Blasphemy Revisited

Justice Minister Andrew Little declared back in March that a review of New Zealand’s hate speech law was in its final stages. It is only the COVID-19 outbreak which has prevented it from being enacted. In order to usher in any new religious blasphemy legislation the old must first

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Doing China’s Dirty Work on Campus

Doing China’s Dirty Work on Campus

The Babylon Bee recently published a satirical article, claiming that the Chinese Communist Party had disbanded its propaganda team, “as American media doing their job for them”. In a case of life-imitating-satire, an Australian university is doing Beijing’s dirty work for them: harassing and persecuting a student who dared

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American Lockdown Protests are Getting Inventive

American Lockdown Protests are Getting Inventive

We all have different ways of protesting when something upsets us. Some of us tell the person where to go verbally, some start a petition, some silently ignore rules they see as dumb, and some just start writing for an online news and views sites ;0) Some people though are

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They Welcome Our New Insect Overlords

They Welcome Our New Insect Overlords

Nothing demonstrates the success of the Marxists’ Long March through the institutions perhaps quite so much as the decline of respect for freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is the key principle of the Enlightenment. It was so important to the enlightened Founding Fathers of the United States that they

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