Why I Disagree With This
Whether tribalism is along gender or ethnic lines, it discourages, if not extinguishes, freedom of thought and speech.
Free Speech
This Is Not a Free Speech Cause
Those boycotting the Bendigo Writer’s Festival don’t give a damn about free speech.
Encryption: A Matter of Privacy and a Free Society
Digital backdoors must be recognised as a threat to your privacy, security and, most importantly, freedom.
Letter from the North
I will continue to comment but I have to be careful in what I report and the language that I use.
This Is the Length the New Stasi Will Go To
The astonishing bureaucratic secret inquisition into a Christian doctor.
The Stasi Files, Part II
They’re no longer universities in any meaningful intellectual or moral sense. They are anti-universities. They are cognitive enclosures: accredited zones of pre-approved ideas and ideologically screened emotions. These curated mind spaces are committed not to inquiry, but to orthodoxy.
The Erosion of Free Speech
Therefore, it is crucial that we remain alert to global digital regulation trends and actively defend freedom of expression, avoiding the adoption of European models, as freedom is lost gradually, slice by slice, through centralized decisions.
Is Anonymity a Protected Freedom or a Mask for Malice?
The liberty to be anonymous online is worth protecting, not because anonymity is an absolute good, but because the alternatives proposed by the state are far worse.
It’s Not a Good Week for Australia’s Online Censor
Which means it’s a very good week for free speech.
Free Speech Has Consequences
Now that leftists are facing the consequences of free speech, they can’t identify the inconsistency. I suspect that is more likely the result of political inconvenience than genuine confusion.
On Legoland and Burkha Bans
The alternative is ongoing decline or an adoption of colourblind authoritarianism which would see us acquiesce to ongoing reductions in freedom in the name of public safety whilst gaining nothing for it.
Jailed for Jokes
There are few things more offensive than arresting and punishing a person for making a joke you don’t like.