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Trudeau’s Plans to License Journalism

Trudeau’s Plans to License Journalism

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Yes, Billionaires Should Run the Internet

Yes, Billionaires Should Run the Internet

Matt Hampton fee.org Matt Hampton is the Digital Marketing Associate for the Foundation for Economic Education. Tesla CEO Elon Musk became Twitter’s largest shareholder on Monday after purchasing 9.2 percent of its stock. Musk’s announcement that he would bring big changes prompted speculation that he would

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Op-Ed Attacks Elon Musk’s Commitment to Free Speech

Op-Ed Attacks Elon Musk’s Commitment to Free Speech

Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practising 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. An op-ed in The Washington Post slammed Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s vision for

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How to Make the UK’s Safety Bill an Opportunity for Freedom

How to Make the UK’s Safety Bill an Opportunity for Freedom

Those who would trade freedom for safety, as Benjamin Franklin famously said, deserve neither. But Franklin’s libertarian argument is directly at odds with the modern authoritarian cult of imposing safety through complete control. (In true Marxist fashion, NPR ludicrously tries to claim that Franklin’s is “a pro-taxation and

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Our Academics Do Not Feel Free to Speak Their Minds

Our Academics Do Not Feel Free to Speak Their Minds

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Warning Long Read. 1634 words. “Cancel culture”, “callout culture” or “woke politics” – these trends are often accused of reducing political debate and diversity of thought in society. And it’s on university campuses where this is said to occur the most. Yet until now, it hasn’

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Freedom of Expression on Campus Bill Needed More than Ever

Freedom of Expression on Campus Bill Needed More than Ever

Dr James McDowall ACT MP New research showing the apprehension Kiwi academics have to speak freely at New Zealand universities highlights the urgent need for my Member’s Bill requiring tertiary education institutions to protect freedom of expression. Curia research commissioned by the Free Speech Union showed almost half of

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Dear David Fisher, Senior Writer, NZ Herald

Dear David Fisher, Senior Writer, NZ Herald

Guy Hatchard Dear David We haven’t met, but a letter from yourself to the editor of the Daily Telegraph has been forwarded to me. In this letter, you say you are writing about “disinformation and misinformation relating to Covid-19”. You mention me as “someone who commonly misrepresents facts”. You

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What Will Musk Do With Twitter?

What Will Musk Do With Twitter?

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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Is This a Win for Freedom?

Is This a Win for Freedom?

I have something of a love-hate relationship with Elon Musk. On the one hand, his flagship Tesla company only survives courtesy of rent-seeking on a colossal scale. If the raft of government subsidies were removed, the company would vanish under a mountain of debt overnight. On the other hand, his

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Both Left and Right Are Wrong about Big Tech and Free Speech

Both Left and Right Are Wrong about Big Tech and Free Speech

Dan Sanchez Liam McCollum fee.org Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in chief of FEE.org. Liam McCollum is a student at the University of Montana studying philosophy and journalism. He is the host of The Liam McCollum Show

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Did Elon Musk Just Save Free Speech?

Did Elon Musk Just Save Free Speech?

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. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,

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Shut Down All Except the Approved MSM?

Shut Down All Except the Approved MSM?

Dear Editor There is a concerted drive underway to discredit all except the MSM. TV One is running a series warning about ‘fake news’ news, with the standard ‘Guilt by Association’ process of describing a clearly deluded view (‘Green Lizards from the Planet Zog taking over the world’ type of

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Finnish Court Upholds Free Speech of Christians

Finnish Court Upholds Free Speech of Christians

familyfirst.org.nz In a positive decision for free speech and religious freedom, the Helsinki District Court ruled that Christian condemnations of LGBT are NOT hate speech. The Court’s verdict was unanimous. This was the outcome of a case involving a Finnish politician Päivi Räsänen who tweeted Romans 1:

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Isn’t She Lovely?

Isn’t She Lovely?

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