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Critics Raise Alarm over New DHS ‘Speech Police’

Casey Harper (The Center Square) thecentersquare.com Casey Harper is a Senior Reporter for the Washington, D.C. Bureau. He previously worked for The Daily Caller, The Hill and Sinclair Broadcast Group. A graduate of Hillsdale College, Casey’s work has also appeared in Fox News, Fox Business and USA

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The Battle for Control of Your Mind

The Battle for Control of Your Mind

Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. In his classic dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell famously wrote, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine

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Musk May Make Twitter Bully Proof

Musk May Make Twitter Bully Proof

Michael Tracey brownstone.org Michael Tracey is a roving journalist who posts at Substack. It’s always been easy to slag off Twitter. When I first joined the platform 13 years ago, if you ever tried to explain what “Twitter” is to people, they’d respond with something like, “So

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How to Begin to Save Science

How to Begin to Save Science

Throughout the pandemic, the constant refrain from the ruling elite and their hangers-on and camp-followers has been “trust the science”. The only problem is that “the science” increasingly isn’t science. Instead, it’s a corrupted, broken system of groupthink, cronyism and willfully blind ideology. The problems with “science” so-called,

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Chinese Censorship a Step Too Far

Chinese Censorship a Step Too Far

Oiwan Lam globalvoices.org Oiwan Lam is a media activist, researcher and educator currently based in Hong Kong. A six-minute video on the lockdown in Shanghai titled “Voices of April” went viral and sparked a rare showing of large-scale online protests after the Chinese censor handed down a comprehensive content

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Elon Musk Wants to Make Big Changes

Elon Musk Wants to Make Big Changes

Although my Lushington Brady persona was banned from Twitter long ago, I do keep a strictly non-political presence on the platform, under another nom-de-plume. It’s remarkable, actually, what a pleasant place Twitter is without politics: there’s probably a lesson in there. Anyway, being on Twitter has allowed me

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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”

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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,

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