How the FSU Turned the Tide
The Telegraph has run a feature on the Free Speech Union, crediting its years of campaigning against non-crime hate incidents.
The Telegraph has run a feature on the Free Speech Union, crediting its years of campaigning against non-crime hate incidents.
The Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) attempted overreach is just another example of bureaucratic and judicial hubris, and it is time for parliament to reassert its sovereignty.
New Zealand repealed its blasphemy law in 2019. Section 123 of the Crimes Act 1961 – “blasphemous libel” was formally removed by parliament. Yet here we are, 60 years later, watching an unelected regulatory body attempt to recreate the same offence through the back door.
They invited anyone who agreed with them to add their names to the letter – and 2,000 academics duly obliged. Who do those witch-hunters remind you of? It’s inconceivable that they genuinely believed that scientific knowledge has no greater claim to being true than Māori mythology.
The sad fact is that citizens can no longer trust the police.
Critical Race Theory is an example of a left-wing movement that aims to take over institutions and use them to advance a left-wing agenda. (And Critical Race Theorists might make the very same argument in reverse.)
The lesson for all of us is that if we do not regularly but peacefully exercise our First Amendment guarantees we will definitely lose them, regardless of who is in power.
‘Your greatest ever prime minister proved more than equal to the task of defeating his political enemies through ‘more speech’ rather than ‘enforced silence’. Trump and the other leaders of insurgent, populist parties would do well to follow the same path.’
Censorship is narrow-minded. It’s shortsighted. Yes, it’s a natural impulse to ideas we find abhorrent. But it’s through calling them out that progress is made, not by cancelling them.
The AHRC wants censorship so they can save ‘free expression’.
Now, the primal roar of legacy media echoes throughout the left wing, co-opting the slogan of free expression...
At this very moment, politicians will be writing legislation that further empowers and emboldens police and the government to engage in state-sanctioned violence and further erode freedom of expression and civil liberties.
Whether or not speech is ‘hate’ speech is totally subjective. What is one man’s hate is another man’s sensible observation.
The conduct of Charlie Kirk before his assassination, and the likes of Israel and Maria Folau, give us a good idea of how we should respond to the increasing challenges in society.
If someone does not share these values, that is their right. But it is not their right to dictate how I live my beliefs, nor to threaten or intimidate me into silence.