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
mercatornet.com Twitter moved one step closer towards its mandate as a platform for free expression this month, after the little blue bird removed prohibitions on “misgendering or deadnaming” from its hateful conduct policy. The change was not announced but made quietly, and was subsequently noticed by online sleuths before
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
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-
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.
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
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,
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
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.
“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,
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
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
Jeffrey A Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also senior economics columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics,
Jess Gill fee.org Jess Gill is a fellow with FEE’s Henry Hazlitt Project for Educational Journalism. A resident of Manchester in the United Kingdom, she is the host and director of Reasoned UK where she makes daily videos on British politics from a libertarian perspective. She is also
In 1976 comedian Ronnie Barker had a skit on his show The Two Ronnies called “The Ministry of Sexual Equality”. In 1979 Monty Python’s The Life of Brian was not only banned but also took the piss out of all sorts of things, including trannies, and South Park in
