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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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Vaccine Fanatics Created Vaccine Sceptics

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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An Almost Win for Free Speech

An Almost Win for Free Speech

In a rare partial victory for free speech and reasoned discourse, two New Zealand doctors have won their appeals against the Medical Council. Their “crime”? Daring to contradict the Podium of Truth. Two doctors who were suspended by the Medical Council over spreading Covid-19 misinformation have won their appeals against

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If NZ’s Royal Society Won’t Stand Up for True Science Who Will?

If NZ’s Royal Society Won’t Stand Up for True Science Who Will?

The stoush over whether matauranga Maori should be taught in the school NCEA science syllabus — sparked by a letter to the Listener by seven emeritus professors last July who asserted that indigenous knowledge isn’t scientific — has reached a stalemate. The Royal Society Te Aparangi has extricated itself from what

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

The National Party has taken down a meme it posted comparing the Government to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock. The meme was posted by the National Party on Facebook on Monday night and soon deleted. […] Christopher Luxon says the party ‘doesn’t condone violence’ Stuff Luxon bans a meme making

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Who Wants a Ministry of Truth?

Who Wants a Ministry of Truth?

“At all times the Party is in possession of absolute truth […] Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth”   — George Orwell, “1984” What is truth? That’s something that philosophers have argued over for millennia — and we’re still no further to settling it. But, apart from some

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The Silencing of the Scientists

Alex Washburne brownstone.org Alex Washburne has undergraduate degrees in biology and applied mathematics from University of New Mexico and a PhD from a Princeton University studying competition in ecological, epidemiological, and economic systems. He’s actively researched COVID epidemiology, the economic impacts of pandemic policy, and stock + capital market

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What Do Dr Robert Malone and The BFD Have in Common?

What Do Dr Robert Malone and The BFD Have in Common?

You may remember when we revealed that The BFD and this author, in particular, had discovered that we were under constant surveillance by the ominously named Police Intelligence ‘Scanning and Targeting Team’. We have now discovered, through an Official Information Act request that the tyrant, Jacinda Ardern’s, own department,

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Censorship Is about Power, Not Science

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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Cancel Culture Should Look In the Mirror

Cancel Culture Should Look In the Mirror

Whenever anyone suggests that Cancel Culture might be less than a good thing. That it might, indeed, be bullying, hateful poison which is killing Western culture, the Cancellers screech indignantly. Screeching indignantly is, of course, their default setting, but dare criticise their despicable ideology and they amp the screeching to

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