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4 Months in Prison Looks Like Overkill

4 Months in Prison Looks Like Overkill

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Who is Defending our Bill of Rights? NZDSOS are concerned by the draconian sentencing of Billy Te Kahika for exercising a fundamental right of New Zealand citizens – Right 16 – the right to freedom of peaceful assembly.  In August of 2021 when

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Vimeo Won’t Let Us Talk about Censorship

Vimeo Won’t Let Us Talk about Censorship

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com In a rather ironic twist, the recently released, beautifully filmed New Zealand documentary ‘Silenced’, about the censorship of important voices, has itself been censored by the platform Vimeo. We shared the documentary on 10 April 2023. Samantha Blanchard’s film Silenced

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The Fallacy of Hate Speech

The Fallacy of Hate Speech

darryllrbetts.wordpress.com Speech and other forms of expression are an extension of our thoughts – and if there is one human right we should take most seriously it is surely our right to think and believe what we want, and to express those thoughts. Equally important is our right to

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Musk Slams Pushing Transitioning on Kids

Musk Slams Pushing Transitioning on Kids

Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats. Twitter owner Elon Musk has been tweeting about a topic that many times gets

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The Process Is the Punishment

The Process Is the Punishment

Right To Life News righttolife.org.uk The bail conditions for a pro-life volunteer, which prevented her from engaging in any public prayer, have been relaxed after her legal team argued that the restrictions were “disproportionate” and “unnecessary”. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested for silently praying in a so-called “buffer zone”

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The Bird Just Got a Bit Freer

The Bird Just Got a Bit Freer

A young fellow of my acquaintance recently sneered at the idea that Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter was a victory, however small, for free speech. “At the end of the day, he’s still just a billionaire. It’s all about money.” Well, that may be so, I replied.

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Two Plus Two Equals Four, No Matter What

Two Plus Two Equals Four, No Matter What

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four … And if the party says that it is not four but five—then how many? George Orwell, “1984” Of all fields, those of us unburdened by a modern university education might be tempted to think that mathematics is

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The Height of Hypocrisy from Stuff

The Height of Hypocrisy from Stuff

To recycle an old joke, how do you know when a Stuff editor is lying…? You know the answer to that one. How about this one, then: how do you know when a Stuff editor is guilty? They’re accusing someone else. We saw that one proven in spades, recently,

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‘Disinformation’: It’s What They Do Best

‘Disinformation’: It’s What They Do Best

Veteran journalist Glenn Greenwald recently wrote that: “Anyone who claims to be: a ‘disinformation expert’; an ‘anti-extremist expert’; an ‘online safety expert’ is a fraud. These are fake expertises that do not exist, that are inherently politicized and subjective, and that are designed to disguise ideology as science.” Greenwald might

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The Govt Documentaries Didn’t Show You This

The Govt Documentaries Didn’t Show You This

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Freedom of speech is under fire in New Zealand.  The newly released documentary ‘Silenced’ reveals how streams of subtle censorship running through the covid 19 response skewed the story relayed to the public by the media, academia and the medical establishment.

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Big Lie Politics at Work in NZ

Big Lie Politics at Work in NZ

“The big lie is such a big lie that ordinary people like us think, ‘Well, that can’t be a lie because I would never tell such a big lie as that. We only lie in small ways’” Adolf Hitler Hitler might have ascribed the Big Lie to his enemies,

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A New Home for NZ’s Minitrue

A New Home for NZ’s Minitrue

Some time back, The BFD reported on the extraordinary, interlinked programs of spying on its own citizens launched by the New Zealand state. As revealed by an OIA request, the the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet’s briefing, Strengthening New Zealand’s Resilience to Mis/Disinformation, and the initial

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The Disinformation Project’s Influence on NZ Media

The Disinformation Project’s Influence on NZ Media

Cranmer cranmer.substack.com Lawyer with over 25 years experience in some of the world’s biggest law firms. I divide my time between the UK and NZ. This Substack explores issues facing NZ at present under my nom du plume, Cranmer. The Disinformation Project has once again hit the

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