Nothing perhaps better illustrates the sorry decline of free speech and intellectual freedom on university campuses than the starkly different receptions given to two flamboyant superstars of conservative politics, 42 years apart. In 1974, John Wayne accepted an invitation to speak at Harvard. Never one to do things by half,
David Cumin Free Speech Coalition Is calling a politician the name of a fairy tale character worthy of Police action? Over the weekend, the head of a Rotorua ratepayers’ association was accused of “age, gender, and race-based hate speech” after he published a Facebook post stating: “Beware the charismatic pitch
Free Speech Coalition An opinion piece by journalist John Drinnan. John Drinnan says “There is a tendency to accept that people with unorthodox views in the current milieu must be policed and punished. It goes against the notion of objectivity and balance that some of us still expect from media.
Stephen Franks of the NZ Free Speech Coalition speaks to Sean Plunket on Magic Talk Radio (last week) about the Human Rights Commission deeming a t-shirt unacceptable. I missed the start of the intro.
Dr David Cumin of the NZ Free Speech Coalition speaks to Sean Plunket on Magic Talk Radio.
Chris Bowen played no small part in Labor’s devastating election loss, but he is also one of the few Labor politicians who seem capable of taking a long, hard look that the party’s lurch to the far-left. Labor’s policy platform was Corbynism-lite, tax’n’spend, gender ideology
Beth Houlbrooke ACT Deputy Leader / Vice President FREE SPEECH The number of people losing their minds left, right and centre this week about David’s free speech comments has shown precisely why trying to define hate speech is completely subjective, impossible to define, and impractical to enforce. Any attempt to
How do you feel about the government passing a law to give police and media control over what you say or post on social media? Pretty soon it will be illegal to say and write anything that anybody considers offensive. No lines will be drawn in the sand, no guidelines
Aunty Helen’s talking parrot has flown home to perch, no doubt replete with some new and clever French phrases to show off, and happy with her strut upon the ‘World’ stage; À chaque fou plaît sa marotte. (Every fool is happy in their own folly). Now that she’s
This is from the Friday working group on MagicTalk radio. I figured I might as well get this up as a followup to the last couple of videos concerning New Zealand police officers checking in on citizens based on their online postings. I reckon it’s good for people to
New video from Carlton McCoy: Politicians and commentators discuss upcoming Hate Speech legislation.
Shock! Horror! White supremacists are rampant at Auckland University. How do we know? Because the university’s Students’ Association says so. But the fascist Vice Chancellor is denying it, which of course is proof that it’s true. quote. Auckland University’s Vice Chancellor maintains students’ claims of a growing
Leighton: The fact that the hate crime law review is fast tracking following the Christchurch shootings um, is a very big danger. As… as we said at the very beginning, um… “never waste a good crisis.” And that is what they are doing. Now I read a letter in today’
Leighton: From the Free Speech Coalition is Stephen Franks, hi! Stephen: Gidday. Leighton: And as the saying goes, welcome to the podcast. I want to quote from what you published with regard to this campaign. “Never waste a good crisis” is attributed to Churchill, referring to the political activist’s
Good morning; Class. Welcome to Media Ethics.101, where today we will be discussing hate-speech which is a very important topic given nice Mr Little’s crusade to ensure publishing unkind things in the future will get people in a lot more trouble than before. In today’s example we
