On the surface of it, it surely seems strange that the left are so triggered by the idea of a tech billionaire buying Twitter. I mean, it’s not like Twitter’s founding owner is a billionaire. Or that Facebook is also owned by a billionaires. Or that mainstream media
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002 and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 A speech prepared for delivery at Massey University, 5 May 2022 Warning Long read. 3405 words. Ladies and gentlemen This was supposed to be the third speech in
Hypocrisy instead of democracy. Today, I got served a trespass order relating to my time at the Wellington protest in February – more than two months later. Peaceful protesting (which is what it was when I was there both times), is allowed in the Bill of Rights. I was clear about
John W. Whitehead Nisha Whitehead rutherford.org Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president The Rutherford Institute. His books Battlefield America: The War on the American People and A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State are available at www.amazon.com. Warning Long read:
Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com Warning Long read: 4795 words I delivered the following speech (little of which would be new to regular readers of this blog) at a meeting of the Free Speech Union at Victoria University last night. Most of the approximately 80 people who attended were
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
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
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
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
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
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
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”
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
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
