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‘The US Government Is Censoring Private Conversations,’ Says the ‘Conversion Therapist’ Fighting a Legal Battle Not to Be Silenced

‘The US Government Is Censoring Private Conversations,’ Says the ‘Conversion Therapist’ Fighting a Legal Battle Not to Be Silenced

Chris Sweeney rt.com Chris Sweeney is an author and columnist who has written for newspapers such as The Times, Daily Express, The Sun and Daily Record, along with several international-selling magazines. Brian Tingley is taking on the state of Washington for the right to continue counselling young people concerned

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NZ Herald Publishers Give in to Twitter Mob

NZ Herald Publishers Give in to Twitter Mob

You’ll remember the work we’ve done to defend the rights of the feminist group Speak Up For Women (SUFW), which was de-platformed from speaking at council-owned venues about proposed amendments to the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 1995. Now NZME (publishers of the NZ Herald newspaper,

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Faces of the Day

Free Speech Union The Free Speech Union is calling for the couple – one reportedly a child of a Government official – who breached lockdown not to have name suppression says Free Speech Union spokesperson, and lawyer, Stephen Franks. “Name suppression will be the worst move for the Auckland couple charged with

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It’s Ok When They Do It

It’s Ok When They Do It

During my brief tenure at the festering online sinkhole that is Twitter, I quickly learned the one, unbreakable rule: the left are untouchable. I was permanently banned from the platform after just a few months, for suggesting that a troll do something that he would surely have found quite pleasurable.

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You Are Stronger Than You Think

You Are Stronger Than You Think

Here’s a little thought experiment for you: imagine that you had gone to sleep at some point in the past few decades, and then woken up in 2021. What on earth would you make of the world? For argument’s sake, I’ll choose my starting-point as 1987: mostly

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Who Do the Disinformation Police Have in Their Sights?

Who Do the Disinformation Police Have in Their Sights?

Eliora The BFD has published three articles recently after spotting a job advertisement that Jacinda Ardern needed to be filled “at pace“. 1. “The Ministry of Truth Is Hiring” 2. “Government’s Kafkaesque Behaviour Epitomised with New Job in the PMO” 3. “Jacinda Ardern Is Employing 1984-Style ‘Disinformation Officers” The

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Video Game Developer Tripwire’s CEO Forced to Step down for Tweeting in Support of Anti-abortion Law in Texas

rt.com US video game firm Tripwire Interactive has announced the immediate departure of its chief executive and apologized profusely that its former leader spoke out in favor of the new Texas abortion law. Chief executive John Gibson has “stepped down,” effective immediately, Tripwire said on Monday. The reason? “His

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Sheriff Ardern Has Lost the Plot

Sheriff Ardern Has Lost the Plot

Information Satire Sheriff Ardern checked the Karangahake Saloon to make sure ‘Cowgirl Collins’ wasn’t around and said to the bar-person Trotsky, “I’ll have RED-EYE (whisky) Comrade.” She confided to Trotsky. “First I lose Middle Earth, then it’s Middle New Zealand, now I’ve Lost the Plot. “The

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On Censorship and Heresy

Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,

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Faces of the Day

Faces of the Day

Free Speech Union Remember how we crowdfunded successful Court proceedings so that Speak Up for Women could hold a meeting in a library about proposed law changes before Parliament? It turns out the exercise cost the Palmerston North City Council more than $30,000 to defend its outrageous deplatforming. Also

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Forgotten Freedoms Fade Fast

Forgotten Freedoms Fade Fast

Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young

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Report Claims Muslims Likely Early Targets of Woke Hate Speech Law

Free Speech Union The Free Speech Union welcomes the report by Newsroom of internal government worries about lack of ‘authenticity’ and ‘inclusion’ in its consultation on their hate speech law changes. That is reassuring to the Union, who has claimed from the beginning that a rushed process where the Minister

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Mr Hunt, You Don’t Speak for Me

Mr Hunt, You Don’t Speak for Me

Dane Giraud fsu.nz Dane Giraud is a member of the Jewish Community and a Council Member of the Free Speech Union. Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt’s op-ed Tuesday defending the government’s proposed hate speech laws is thoroughly predictable after a month of terrible comms that failed

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