Contrary to the lunatic gibberings of the climate alarmists and pandemic panickers, neither climate change nor the Wuhan virus are the defining issues of our times. The great issue of our times is free speech. Free speech is the fundamental value of liberal democracy. Civil rights, women’s rights, voting
We truly live in Clown World when an academic is forced to resign from his job because he pointed out that a stone-age people who didn’t even have cooking pots let alone the wheel or a written language did not have any form of science. Did he tell the
Jordan Williams General Secretary Free Speech Union Our movement is becoming more diverse. Recently, National Party leader Judith Collins joined the Free Speech Union – the first National Party leader we’re aware of to join a trade union while in office. ACT’s David Seymour is on board too. And
Christian Toto newsbusters.org The term Cancel Culture is bandied about in the press with too many caveats. Liberal news outlets preface the phrase with either “so-called” or put it in scare quotes. The message is clear. Many on the Right are blowing the term out of proportion. It’s
Graham Adams Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom It fell to RNZ to break the news to the
Adam Johnston fee.org Adam Johnston is a libertarian-conservative writer and contributor to freethepeople.org (@FreeThePeople) What do Donald Trump winning the presidency in 2016, the Capitol Protests on January 6, and Joe Biden missing his July 4th Covid-19 vaccination target all have in common? According to many of today’
Bob McCoskrie National Director Family First With the government releasing for public consultation its plan for laws governing ‘hate speech’, it is vital that families and faith communities understand what is really at stake with these proposals. That’s why you need to read our FACT SHEET – hot off the
***Update: We appealed the 30 Day ban and won. For now, we are back on Facebook Yesterday we published an article from Darroch Ball of the Sensible Sentencing Trust about just how awful the Mongrel Mob are. The article explains how the Mongrel Mob have for 50 years used Nazi
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Why has Kris Faafoi gone to ground? He was given an open invitation to discuss the proposed hate speech changes by Radio New Zealand but apparently doesn’t have 10 free minutes to talk with them. If he is proposing taking away New Zealander’s freedom of speech, he should
The awkward conversation in the hate speech debate is the one about antisemitism. Similar to Brenton Tarrant’s activity on the dark web, antisemitism is usually invisible until it erupts into irrefutable antisemitic violence. “New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday that New York state authorities will be investigating the
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen Cardiff University Karin Wahl-Jorgensen is the author of three books, Disasters and the Media (Peter Lang, 2012; co-authored with Mervi Pantti and Simon Cottle), Journalists and the Public (Hampton Press, 2007) and Citizens or Consumers? (Open University Press, 2005; co-authored with Justin Lewis and Sanna Inthorn), and is
In Orwell’s 1984, the telescreen is a device which not only blasts non-stop propaganda, it allows the Party to monitor its members, all day, every day. For instance, when Winston Smith fails to join in the prescribed exercises properly, the instructor’s voice blares from the screen: “6079 Smith
More than any other prime minister, Robert Menzies was responsible for putting Australia on the higher education map. Under Menzies, Australia’s universities tripled, and enrolments skyrocketed. True to Menzies’ word that “a university education is not, and certainly should not be, the perquisite of a privileged few,” and “finance
