Free Speech
Three Reasons for Free Speech
Simon O’Connor Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. We once again have Green Party leader, Chlöe Swarbrick, proudly screaming the ‘from the river to the sea…’ slogan from
Freedom, Moral Norms and the State
Jonathan Cole Jonathan Cole is an academic working in political theology: the intersection of religion and politics. He is also host of The Political Animals, a podcast that explores the political ideas of the Right through intellectual biography. Are moral norms compatible with individual freedoms? The answer should be an
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.