As we all know, Twitter mobs have been going after people for “wrong-think”. It seems that they’re no longer content with that and are now going after fiction authors for “wrong-write”. Reclaim The Net explains. Social media outrage at fictional books is causing contrite writers to revise
Chris Sellars I like to keep an eye on the weather as it’s handy to know which way the wind blows and if a hard rain is gonna fall. I am not qualified though. I don’t call myself an expert or a professional. I have been rained on
Society is made up of lots of different family units: some are close and strong, others disjointed and alienated. My father once naïvely attempted to heal a long standing family rift by getting parties who had not spoken to each other for years together to talk, hopefully forgive and let
David Cumin fsu.nz TRANSCRIPT: Free Speech Union Podcast interview with Beth Johnson, Spokeswoman for Speak Up For Women, June 7 2021 David: Welcome everyone to the Free Speech Union Podcast. It’s David Cumin here as host, and I have with me Beth from Speak Up for Women. Welcome,
Email just now from Westpac bank saying they’ve cancelled me. I’m banned from banking with them in future too. For what exactly am I being cancelled by Westpac? This is pressure from Jacinda’s govt and the extremist Maori party because I’m telling the truth of their
Should an employer have the right to fire an employee who expresses the view that a trans woman can never be truly a female? The Daily Mail article reads: “ ‘I was just fighting for everyone’s right to hold an opinion’: Mother who lost her job for saying trans women
The Age is having an extended tanty because a private citizen has dared to use the same publicly-available tools all political parties use, to say things that the mainstream media don’t want Australians to say. A Brisbane man sent letters espousing offensive views about immigration and multiculturalism for
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t want the Saint Jacinda Saves the Muslims movie cancelled. Yes, I agree with almost all of the criticisms made of it (hypocritical as many of them are) – but still, I don’t want it cancelled. I have trenchantly criticised Cancel
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet Can animals be victims of hate speech? Yes, according to a recent article in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. Two academics from Sheffield University, in England, invoke heavy-hitting hate-speech theorists to argue that arguments which apply
Finn Andreen mises.org Recently, Joe Rogan, one of the largest podcast hosts in the United States (10.6 million YouTube subscribers), expressed the following opinion about the vaccination of young adults: If you are 21 and ask me if you should get the vaccine, I would say “no”. If
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage Winston Churchill A lot of people, especially
rt.com The UK government has criticised students at Oxford University’s Magdalen College as “simply absurd” for voting to remove a portrait of the Queen over concerns that it’s a symbol of Britain’s “recent colonial history.” Speaking after the vote, which was taken at the college’s
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Readers of the The BFD will certainly be more familiar with left-wing blogger Martyn “Bomber” Bradbury than I. Still, his reputation precedes him – and I’m grimly familiar with his type on the Australian left. Yes, we have them, too: the sad old gits who never grew out of
It is with great concern that I write this but I feel compelled to do so, before the subsequent change in hate speech laws. These laws will basically curtail any and all debate over such issues as a report that will, without any consultation with the majority of the voting
Are Australians ready to go to jail for expressing opinions which displease the government? Popular, even if maybe wrong opinions? Because that’s exactly what the bonkers bureaucrats at Australia’s drug regulator are hinting at. Australia’s drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), is considering referring Facebook posts
