So, the second tranche of the Twitter Files have dropped, and confirmed what everybody knew: Twitter was actively shadowbanning accounts, and lying about it. (And confirming what we also knew: the legacy media are going to ignore this story as hard as they can.) For the uninitiated, “shadowbanning” is the
Editorial voicesforfreedom.co.nz Yesterday some of you may have been sitting in a comfy spot with your cuppa and a bickie, ready to tune into the Free Speech Fridays slot with VFF and Michael Laws on The Platform… It seems that Claire and Alia were too hot to handle
Tim Lindsey The University of Melbourne Tim Lindsey, Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne Indonesia’s controversial new criminal code was passed into law on Tuesday, replacing a clunky old code dating back to at
At the rate the legacy media are going, you should be seeing this story appearing on Stuff and the NZ Herald some time around 2030. If at all. After all, it took CBS two whole years to finally start talking about the Hunter Biden laptop and its shocking contents. But
Robert Kogon brownstone.org Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. Follow him at Twitter here. He writes at edv1694.substack.com. Elon Musk’s announced “general amnesty” week has come and gone and there has been no sign
On Monday Chantelle Baker released a bombshell OIA response that clearly shows that Jacinda Ardern’s Government is actively and deliberately silencing alternative media voices, while they still shovelling millions at their corrupted paid shills in the propaganda press. What has been revealed will shock you. The Official Information Act
Scott Morefield Scott Morefield spent three years as a media & politics reporter with the Daily Caller, another two years with BizPac Review, and has been a weekly columnist at Townhall since 2018. brownstone.org From the moment it hit the news earlier this year, I expressed my belief that
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Protests erupted across China in recent days as demonstrators have taken to the
As a recent BFD article warned, it’s foolish to venerate Elon Musk as some kind of avenging capitalist demigod straight out of an Ayn Rand novel. When all’s said and done, the guy’s a businessman. Making lots of money is what he does. But if, in the
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org Everyone is going to hate this column. Musk worshipers are going to hate it because I’m going to blaspheme against Elon Musk. Musk demonizers are going to hate it because I am not going to blaspheme against him enough. Everyone else is going to hate
The past five years or so have been one disappointment after another. Firstly finding out that famous people I rather respected are complete dickholes. Of course, as a one-time music journalist, I’d long learned that a great many artists I enjoyed were utter turds. But it’s something else
David Jenkins University of Otago David Jenkins joined Otago in July 2020 as a lecturer in political theory. Previous to this he was a postdoc research fellow at Warwick, a teaching fellow at UCL and a postdoc at the IWM in Vienna. His current research centres on problems in contemporary
We’re all too familiar with the decline of free speech on university campuses. The scene could be any campus in Australia, New Zealand, or anywhere in the Western world: a speaker deemed (rightly or wrongly) “conservative” is invited to speak on campus. Student groups immediately demand for the event
How do societies slide into totalitarianism? One step at a time. You don’t go to bed one night in an open, free country and wake up the next morning to find yourself under constant surveillance with jackbooted thugs banging on your door and all your civil liberties stripped away.
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. Elon Musk says Twitter’s new speech policy is “freedom of speech,” not “freedom
