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The Article They Don’t Want You to Read

The Article They Don’t Want You to Read

Both the NZ Herald and the Northland Age published and then memory-holed the below article. At The BFD we do not support censorship or cancel culture so have obtained permission to re-publish the article so that our audience can make up their own minds. The original headline of

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An Article the NZ Herald & the Northland Age Don’t Want You to Read

Screenshot The BFD Dr Michael Bassett’s column referred to below has been removed from the Northland Age website. Upon review, its unacceptable views did not meet our standards. We apologise for its publication. Northland Age – NZ Herald Suppression continues apace of historical opinions that do not conform to the

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Standing Tall for Women

Standing Tall for Women

Anne I worry about the future of women if we cannot say ‘women have babies’. I’m a woman with XX chromosomes, have grown from girlhood through all life stages to deliver three wonderful babies, breast-fed those babies and given them the best start I possibly could. Nobody knows

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Reductio Ad Absurdum

Reductio Ad Absurdum

Reductio ad absurdum is one of my favourite debating techniques. In a nutshell you disprove your opponent’s argument by showing that if your opponent’s statement were true, it would lead to an absurd conclusion. This technique is not without its kryptonite. And that kryptonite is of course: stupid

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Don’t Be Offensive in Britain

Don’t Be Offensive in Britain

Salman Rushdie famously said that without the freedom to offend, free speech doesn’t exist. If the Plod are to be believed, then there is indeed no freedom of speech in Britain any more. Merseyside Police has apologised for claiming “being offensive is an offence” as part of a campaign

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The New Face of McCarthyism

The New Face of McCarthyism

Ashley Church israelinstitute.nz In March 1947, US President Harry Truman enacted an Executive Order which required all federal employees to be screened for ‘loyalty’ as a way of rooting out those who would seek to ‘alter the form of Government of the United States by unconstitutional means’. The move

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Facebook Stomps on Small Publishers

Facebook Stomps on Small Publishers

Michael Cook mercatornet.com Facebook unfriended all of Australia last week. Locked in a battle with the Federal government over legislation which would force it to pay for links to news publications, it wiped Australian news sources from viewer’s feeds. So when you checked your Facebook feed on February

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YouTube Censors Latest Trump Interview with Newsmax

Alexander Hall newsbusters.org YouTube has not stopped its censorious ways. Now the platform has torched a Newsmax interview with former President Donald Trump. “YouTube took down a newly recorded interview with former President Donald Trump in Google’s latest action against conservatives,” The Epoch Times reported Feb. 20. “A

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The Glory of Going Viral – A Fraud Promoted by Big Tech

The Glory of Going Viral – A Fraud Promoted by Big Tech

Bruce Wilds brucewilds.blogspot.com While pondering the current state of the world I stumbled upon the question or idea that one of the things that makes the internet so intriguing is the alluring idea that it holds the potential to elevate the user to a higher level of importance.

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Insight from My Mom on Freedom

Ethan Yang aier.org Ethan joined AIER in 2020 as an Editorial Assistant and is a graduate of Trinity College. He received a BA in Political Science alongside a minor in Legal Studies and Formal Organizations. There’s certainly something poetic about my existence being the son of two immigrant

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