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NZ’s Digital Identity Services Trust Framework

NZ’s Digital Identity Services Trust Framework

NZDSOS New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science Digital ID is being sold as an essential change to modern society via public-private partnerships as global as the World Economic Forum to as local as Digital Identity New Zealand. The stated vision of Digital Identity NZ, whose members include large corporations

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Lessons from the Persecution of Assange

Lessons from the Persecution of Assange

Brownstone Institute Brownstone Institute is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. After 12 years of confinement, Julian Assange now stands on the verge of freedom after agreeing to a guilty plea in exchange for

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Media Not Happy About Free Speech

Media Not Happy About Free Speech

Joseph Vazquez PA Pundits – International Joseph Vazquez is the MRC Associate Editor for Business & Free Speech America. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science from The George Washington University in 2018. NBC News is having a nervous breakdown over the Biden administration not doing

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The Supreme Court Just Gave Us Hope

The Supreme Court Just Gave Us Hope

brownstone.org The Supreme Court handed down a victory for political freedom last week in National Rifle Association v. Vullo that may lay the groundwork for lawsuits featuring dissidents against the Covid regime, including Berenson v. Biden and Murthy v. Missouri. In Vullo, the Court considered whether the New York

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Do We Really Need More Laws?

Do We Really Need More Laws?

As the filth of anti-Semitism more and more pollutes the public sphere, the inevitable clamour of “the gummint should ban it!” rises. No one outside of the Greens or Lakemba Mosque would dispute that governments and public institutions have so far woefully failed to do anything meaningful to tackle anti-Semitism.

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Canada’s Tyranny Growing, US Not Far Behind

Peter Murphy Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. cfact.org O Canada, we stand

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Does the End Justify the Means?

Does the End Justify the Means?

Simon O’Connor onpointnz.substack.com When I think of the various protest, or activist, movements of late one deeply troubling observation is becoming abundantly clear – there are those in New Zealand who genuinely believe that violence is acceptable when it comes to their cause.  The classic, ‘the end justifies

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How Dare Catholics Say What They Believe!

How Dare Catholics Say What They Believe!

How long before it’s illegal to be a Catholic in Tasmania? Perhaps we will hide them under the floorboards next to the Jews, when the Waffen-SSM Flamingwerfers come hunting. Certainly, any Catholic actually publicly expressing standard Catholic belief can be expected to be hit with a deafening of screeching

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The Answer Is More Free Speech

The Answer Is More Free Speech

Gabriel Nadales realclearwire.com Throughout the country, we have seen a rise in antisemitic protests and attacks against Jewish people. In fact, since Hamas’ massacre of Israeli and Jewish civilians on Oct. 7, antisemitic incidents have surged in the U.S. by over 360% as of early 2024. The latest

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Win of the Day

Win of the Day

The regulator would have been given the power to force online platforms to take down more kinds of illegal content, such as threats to kill people. The overall objective of the initiative was to “improve consumer safety for all New Zealanders”, Internal Affairs said. But a spokesperson for the department

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In the Service of Dissent

In the Service of Dissent

brownstone.org Is academic freedom becoming a casualty of the modern university, as the latter is transformed by the public-private partnerships that increasingly dominate our political life? Just before Easter, a Montreal man, father of four and full professor at a university founded shortly after Harvard, was informed of his

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New Media of the Day

New Media of the Day

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Do We Want a Global Surveillance State?

Jaimie Stevenson Jaimie Stevenson JD (Monash) is a legal consultant for Australian-based SMEs, specialising in technology, data, privacy and IP law. She is passionate about the rule of law, as opposed to arbitrary rules, and minimal government encroachment on the inherent rights of the individual including freedom, autonomy and dignity.

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This Week in Censorship

This Week in Censorship

Charlie Tidmarsh realclearwire.com The curation at RealClear Censorship this week reflects on a dramatic, defining moment for free speech in this country. On April 17, students at Columbia University began an occupation of the campus in protest of Israel’s ongoing military assault on Gaza. Specifically, hundreds of students

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How Not to Counter the Radical Right

Rita Abrahamsen Michael Williams Professor of International Politics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa National Conservatism conferences, one of the main meeting grounds for the global radical right, rarely attract much attention. If not for the decision of a local mayor, the same neglect would have befallen this year’

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How Under Threat Free Speech Is

David Farrar David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders. bassettbrashandhide.com The new Victoria University Vice-Chancellor decided

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