Is it time to make the 20s roar again? No small part of the exuberance of that decade was in reaction to the misery of its predecessor. After more than half a decade of bloodshed and deadly plague, young people especially were ready to kick up their heels and revel
Jordan Williams Free Speech Coalition It seems the threats to free speech extend further than Phil Goff and Auckland Council. Today we got the news that New Zealand is no safe space for international academics, with Sky City cancelling a contract to host Australian philosopher Peter Singer. The reason given
The forced cancellation of philosopher Peter Singer’s speaking event in New Zealand is testament to the utter, unhinged totalitarianism of the anti-free speech left. Once again, the left is eating its own and another leftist icon is discovering that you can never be woke enough for the inquisitors of
The Coalition’s Minister for Hate Speech, as I have come to think of Andrew Little, had the following exchange yesterday in parliament. Shockingly, Andrew Little appears to be more in favour of free speech than National MP Nick Smith Question No. 6—Justice 6. Hon Dr NICK SMITH (National—
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It’s tempting to think, given some recent judgements, that British justice is in as parlous a state as much of the rest of the nation’s civil institutions. This is, after all, a country where a court has ruled that Christian belief is “incompatible with human dignity”. Where pranksters
Irshad Manji, author of Don’t Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times, thinks it’s about time we all stopped getting offended. TIME met with her at NYC’s Tenement Museum. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.
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I watched the video and the focus was on the person offending people. Apparently, he had written something along the lines of stating that certain members of parliament should be hung from a tree. If he had incited violence in what he said he would have broken the law. In
The Chinese Government has decided that anything other than the ‘official’ line on the Coronavirus is “fake news” and anyone spreading such fake news will be ‘invited’ to spend 3 – 7 years in the slammer. I don’t suppose that WeChat has ever held itself out as a champion of
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Over at Zero Hedge, they are feeling a little vindicated. They published some queries and got permanently banned by the free-speech police (aka Twitter). Here is their list of ‘dots’ that could be connected by enquiring minds. 1. One of China’s top virology and immunology experts was and still
We already know that free speech is not a principle that the contemporary left support. It’s also obvious that, for all the self-serving palaver about “your right to know”, the left are implacably hostile to a free press, too. In 2011, the Gillard government in Australia attempted to force
