Skip to content

Free Speech

Why Elon Musk Cannot Bring Absolute Free Speech to Twitter

Why Elon Musk Cannot Bring Absolute Free Speech to Twitter

Eric Heinze Queen Mary University of London Eric Heinze (Paris, Maîtrise; Harvard, JD; Leiden, PhD) is Professor of Law & Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. Elon Musk is the planet’s number one billionaire. If anyone can turn cyberspace into a heaven – or hell – of free speech “absolutism”

Members Public
Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal Creates Value

Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal Creates Value

Dan Sanchez fee.org Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in chief of FEE.org. Elon Musk sealed the deal. On Monday, Twitter accepted Musk’s $44 billion offer to buy the company and take it private. Musk is putting

Members Public
How Will Musk’s Ownership of Twitter Affect Free Speech?

How Will Musk’s Ownership of Twitter Affect Free Speech?

John Hawkins Michael James Walsh University of Canberra John Hawkins has a PhD in political science and Masters degrees in Economics and Applied Finance. I have headed the economics division at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and been a senior economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia, Bank for International

Members Public
What’s Not to Love about Social Credit?

What’s Not to Love about Social Credit?

If you’re worried that Western countries are rapidly establishing a Chinese-style Social Credit System, why, you’re just a nutbag, right-wing conspiracy theorist, and probably racist. Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes that that’s exactly what we’re seeing unfold right in front of us: the ABC are

Members Public
Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Elon Musk has been successful in his bid to buy Twitter for $44 billion Live shot of Twitter HQ at this very moment pic.twitter.com/XceYVa0VLl — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 25, 2022 Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content

Members Public
We Are the Easiest People to Fool

We Are the Easiest People to Fool

We know, thanks to leaked internal research, that the Meta stable of social media apps are toxic. Facebook, Instagram… they’re all mental and social poison, especially to teenagers. Meta knows this, because its own scientists have done the research. We know it, because the research was leaked. Yet, in

Members Public
A Govt Obsessed With Controlling the Narrative

A Govt Obsessed With Controlling the Narrative

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Warning Long Read. 2105 words.

Members Public
A Book Burns, Cities Burn

A Book Burns, Cities Burn

Sam Harris once posed the question: If Islam really is a “religion of peace”, then shouldn’t its extremists be extremely peaceful? Instead, “Islamic extremism” is a byword for often appalling violence. Certainly, some Islamic theologians such as Australia’s Imam Tawhidi make a compelling case that, over the centuries,

Members Public
How Feds Cracked Down on Project Veritas Journalism

How Feds Cracked Down on Project Veritas Journalism

If you have a great Youtube, Rumble, Odysee or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nzIf you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here to browse our Membership options.

Members Public
Do Poison Pills Work?

Do Poison Pills Work?

Tuugi Chuluun Loyola University Maryland Tuugi Chuluun, PhD., CFA is Travelers Scholar and an Associate Professor of Finance at Loyola University Maryland. Tuugi conducts research in corporate finance and international finance and has authored academic articles as well as an international finance textbook. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst

Members Public
black and orange traffic light

NZ Church Leaders Ask for Judicial Review

Free To Be Church Reverend Logan Hagoort In early June, Free To Be Church, a group of Christian Ministers from around New Zealand, will be seeking a ruling from a Judge as to the legality of the COVID ‘Traffic Light’ system. Their focus will be on challenging whether these rules

Members Public
Greetings from the Freedom Front Lines

Greetings from the Freedom Front Lines

Mark Freeman You may have seen us on the side of a road in your town or city, holding signs promoting freedom and decrying vaccines and mandates. Or maybe you’ve been one of us. If not, you may have wondered what motivates us to be there, especially when the

Members Public
They Snooped but I Got Fired

They Snooped but I Got Fired

Information Opinion Some readers of  The BFD may recall the Mr Berry Mr Berry Show, a Youtube show I hosted for eighteen months. In mid-February, I decided to finish the show in order to focus on my employment as a Retail Coordinator at Officeworks in Melbourne (henceforth to be known

Members Public
Musk’s Threat to the “Current Thing”

Musk’s Threat to the “Current Thing”

Dan Sanchez fee.org Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in chief of FEE.org. Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion on Thursday, eliciting extreme reactions from some. Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at the City University

Members Public