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Parler Is Back!

Parler Is Back!

On Monday the company announced that Parler is back online with a new interim CEO Mark Meckler. From next week you will be able to follow The BFD on Parler as new users won’t be able to sign up until next week. If you already have a Parler account,

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‘New Zealand Is Not North Korea’

‘New Zealand Is Not North Korea’

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com The following was brought to my attention and is very hard to argue with: Extracted from the Feb 13 Economist’s leading article, How well will vaccines work? : For all these reasons, governments need to start planning for covid-19 as an endemic disease. Today they

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Facebook Tyrants Are Out of Control

Facebook Tyrants Are Out of Control

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Another Christian Group Cancelled

Another Christian Group Cancelled

Last week I wrote about Twitter cancelling conservative Christian group “Focus on the Family.” This week its YouTube’s turn. ReclaimTheNet reports. The YouTube channel for LifeSiteNews, a non-profit Christian news outlet, has been purged from the platform for “violating YouTube’s community guidelines.” “YouTube just completely removed the LifeSiteNews

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Facebook Caught between a Rockspider and a Hard Place

Facebook Caught between a Rockspider and a Hard Place

As reported on The BFD, Twitter has a strange habit of blatantly ignoring child abuse material on its platform, even when the victims directly report it. Apparently, child porn doesn’t go against their “community standards” in the same way that conservative politics does. Facebook is almost as assiduous as

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No Christian Terror – So Why Are Sermons Being Vetted?

In the last decade or so, there have been at least 11 Islamic terror attacks or thwarted plots in Denmark. There have been no Christian terror attacks. So which religion is the Danish government persecuting? Christian churches in Denmark will be required to translate and submit all sermons to the

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MediaWorks Machinations

MediaWorks Machinations

What is going on at MediaWorks? First, it was John Banks and now it’s Sean Plunket. It seems as if the company is trying to pre-empt the proposed hate speech laws and get in first. Their CEO Cam Wallace certainly seems to be intent on implementing a woke philosophy.

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Cancel Culture Is a Necessary Good

In the early days of cancel culture (c. 2016-2018) it was wise to oppose it, but few did. Now we’re well past the point of no return. The tide is coming in, and only a fool would dare to oppose it. During the early days, “build your own” was

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Can American Democracy Survive Big Tech?

Can American Democracy Survive Big Tech?

Karl D. Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977 and was employed by Motorola, Inc. and Scientific-Atlanta as an RF

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Chinese Flock to Rare Chance at Free Speech

Chinese Flock to Rare Chance at Free Speech

As we in the West increasingly throw away our hard-won free speech rights, it’s worth paying attention to those who’ve never had them. You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone; more importantly, you only really appreciate something if you’ve never had it.

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A Neurosurgeon’s View on Cancel Culture and Virtue Signaling

Richard Menger fee.org Richard Menger MD MPA is a neurosurgeon and a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a lead editor of the textbook “Economics, Business, Policy of Neurosurgery.” He is currently the Chief of Complex Spine Surgery at the University of South Alabama and

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The Good News about Cancel Culture in NZ

Cancel Culture worldwide is cancelling conservative individuals and conservative media outlets for wanting to discuss the things that so-called progressives want buried. In the short term, this appears to be a calamity for those of us on the right side of politics but in reality, it is the beginning of

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No Conservatives, But Child Porn Is Ok with Twitter

No Conservatives, But Child Porn Is Ok with Twitter

Twitter is apparently able to hunt down and exterminate wrongthink with a single algorithm. Its censorship resolutely sniffs out conservative tendencies like a bloodhound on the scent. If they can’t outright ban everyone to the right of Marx using their byzantine “community standards”, Twitter will “shadowban” them – making sure

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Why Social Media Takes a ‘Ban First, Ask Questions Later’ Approach

Why Social Media Takes a ‘Ban First, Ask Questions Later’ Approach

Matthew Tanous mises.org While some people are increasingly concerned about (and others cheer) the political implications of censorship on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, few have engaged in any analysis of how things reached this point and why social media companies seem universally of the same mind

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