Free Speech
The Spark Debacle and Free Speech
Corina Shields corinashields.substack.com If you think you know me you’re wrong. I don’t fit any of your stereotypes. I’ve had to remove myself lately and watch as this whole Spark Debacle has played out. And I’ve watched it with a heavy heart, a pit
Calling the Zuck to Account
A common argument from the anti-free speech left is that “it’s only censorship if the government is doing it!” This, they claim, means that when social media companies censor speech on their platforms, it’s not really censorship. This is wrong, of course, on several points. Firstly, while private
Oh What Tedious Threads He’s Weaved
No doubt Spark will be pretty keen to move to Threads, after their debacle on Twitter last week. After all, they won’t have to worry about a public backlash to the misogynist bigotry of their employees in a space where no one will even see it. The great terror
The Ad New Zealand Newspapers Don’t Want You to See
Family First In a disturbing display of media censorship, the major daily Newspapers have all banded together to pull the publication of a full page advertisement at the 11th hour. A nationwide campaign asking the simple question “What is a woman?” was launched yesterday. But the NZ Herald did everything
Praying in Public Will Not Be Tolerated
Some people seem to have missed Dave Chappelle’s memo: “You are never, ever, allowed to upset the alphabet people”. And, under no circumstances, not never, not ever, should you publicly state orthodox Christian beliefs. A Minnesota mayor has been summarily found guilty of both. Members of an LGBTQ+ group
Making Whores and Charlatans Look Honest
As I repeatedly warn BFD readers, “Always assume a ‘fact-checker’ is trying to bullshit you”. That’s because “fact-checkers” are in reality almost always Confirmation Bias Machines whose purpose is to mislead and to reinforce biased narratives. The ABC and its partnership with RMIT FactLab is a case in point.
Another One Against Big Brother Laws
As I wrote recently, even Big Brother himself, Mark Zuckerberg, is raising an eyebrow at Anthony Albanese’s Orwellian “online misinformation” bill. The bill would allow the government to arbitrarily declare anything online as “harmful misinformation”, while exempting themselves from the same scrutiny. The bill would also outlaw speech that
China Just Loves Albo’s Ministry of Truth
Technically, it’s a fallacy to judge an idea on the metric of just who is endorsing it. Still, there are some actors who are so resolutely wrong that it’s a pretty safe bet that anything they like is a very bad thing indeed. One such bad actor is
Spark NZ Won’t Tolerate TERFS
familyfirst.org.nz This article was first published on The Daily Examiner Spark NZ and One NZ (previously Vodafone) have engaged with controversial far-left trans-activist Shaneel Lal in extraordinary engagements to attack women’s rights. The bizarre commentary appears to support Mr Lal’s call to suppress Kiwis’ voices based
When Even Big Brother Thinks You’ve Gone Too Far
What is it with Labor governments and Orwellian censorship? Last time, it was Julia Gillard trying to set up a government censor for mainstream media. This time, it’s Anthony Albanese, trying to do the same for social media. Unsurprisingly, both Gillard and Albanese hail from Labor’s Socialist Left
There’s No Keeping a Good Woman Down
As any sensible man knows, telling an angry woman to be quiet is almost never going to work out in your favour. But the wet, weak fools running the supposedly conservative party in Victoria are not sensible men. Women across the world are very angry right now — and they’re
Well, That Didn’t Take Long…
Well, that didn’t take long. It’s been barely a couple of weeks since Mark Zuckerberg’s latest data-mining project, the so-called “Twitter killer” Threads was launched. And already the wheels are falling off. Threads was created by and for the censorious wokesters who simply cannot bear the fact
A Blow to Biden’s Ministry of Truth
Ben Terangi Ben Terangi is a freelance journalist writing from Milwaukee. mercatornet.com The United States Constitution is something of a miracle. But unless we defend it, it’s just a piece of paper. These are the words of Dr Aaron Kheriaty, a plaintiff in Missouri v. Biden, a federal
Doing All the “No” Work for Us
Boy, Aborigines sure are a special bunch. Not only did they invent democracy and agriculture, as Bruce Pascoe would have us believe, but they’re also such magical, rarified beings that merely drawing a picture of them is an affront. When the Australian Financial Review published a cartoon that accurately
The Politicization of Banking and the End of Freedom
David Thunder David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society in Pamplona, Spain, and a recipient of the prestigious Ramón y Cajal research grant (2017-2021, extended through 2023), awarded by the Spanish government to support outstanding research activities. brownstone.org