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Free to Believe What They Let You

Free to Believe What They Let You

Many years ago, I found myself “between jobs”, as they say. Mrs Brady, diligently scanning the job ads, found a position open in a health food store. “Must have a commitment to sharing organic and vegan lifestyles”, the ad specified. I pointed out that I was, if anything, diametrically opposed

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What Will Canada’s Online Harms Bill Do?

What Will Canada’s Online Harms Bill Do?

Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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Bill to Protect Kids or Outlaw Political Opponents?

Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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Hypocrisy Abounds

Hypocrisy Abounds

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. onpointnz.substack.com When it comes to free speech in New Zealand, the hypocrisy (or at best, inconsistency) of many

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Is Musk Backsliding on Free Speech?

Gabriela Pariseau Gabriela is an Assistant Editor in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a BA in History. Gabriela has also contributed to The Catholic Register, Arlington Catholic Herald, Students For Life of America and Iowa Right

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A Major Step Toward Police Reform

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at FEE. fee.org On the evening of March 20, 2020, Waylon Bailey was bored. Like nearly all members of the public at the time, he was under “lockdown” because of the COVID-19 pandemic. So, he decided to

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A Healthy Democracy Needs Opposing Ideas

A Healthy Democracy Needs Opposing Ideas

Caleb Anderson Published first on NZCPR Ideas are often difficult to define.  Generally, our understanding of ideas is defined by two things. 1.  By what an idea does (what it produces) 2.  By what it is not (by its opposite) How would you define democracy, for example? Most of us

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Highlights and Milestones over past Two Years

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com We are thrilled to present our annual Milestones & Highlights report for 2022–23! This year marked significant progress and crucial breakthroughs, reinforcing our unwavering dedication to medical freedom. In our report, we reassess our goals, vision, and strategy moving forward.

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Even Anti-Semites Have Free Speech, Too

Even Anti-Semites Have Free Speech, Too

Proving the adage about stopped clocks, it was Noam Chomsky who said, “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all”. I don’t like Chomsky, but I believe in his right to say even the horrendous things

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Good Work, if You Can Get It

Good Work, if You Can Get It

I have an unhealthy interest in the doings and goings of the great disinformation debate. The disinformation bogeyman dangled about so readily and so often by our politicians and press, as proof, or disproof, of this or that. When in fact what it often boils down to is simple disagreement:

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It’s Not a Lie if They Believe It

It’s Not a Lie if They Believe It

It’s an article of faith among the chattering classes that the nasty proles are simply too stupid to be allowed to think for ourselves. We’re witless sheep only fit to be herded hither and yon by “smarter” people. They even have a name for their snobbish delusion: “nudge

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Sports Fan Banned From Stadium for Wrongthink

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at FEE. fee.org Tears welled in the eyes of Linzi Smith as she explained, her voice shaking, why she can no longer attend Premier League soccer games at the stadium 10 minutes from her home to root

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When Following Orders Was the Wrong Thing to Do

When Following Orders Was the Wrong Thing to Do

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com T Rewind two years outside parliament…Giggling children running happily underfoot. No furtive glances of anxious eyes above a muzzle. Smiling faces, an accepting community, and a home for the voiceless where they were believed instead of ignored, belittled, or silenced.

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New Media Sues the State Department over Censorship

Robert Malone Robert W. Malone is a physician and biochemist. His work focuses on mRNA technology, pharmaceuticals, and drug repurposing research. brownstone.org The State Department is censoring and limiting the circulation of disfavoured press outlets. According to a new lawsuit filed in December on behalf of two media organizations,

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Universities Have Blown Their Last Chance

Universities Have Blown Their Last Chance

I keep saying it, and I’m joking less and less every time I do: time to bulldoze the universities. I’m not joking any more. The rise of wokeism in tandem with a deplorable dumbing-down of standards was bad enough. Encouraging violent censorship and pandering to the thugs of

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