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Police Body Cams. Do We Need Them?

Police Body Cams. Do We Need Them?

Years ago, well, in 1996 to be precise, there was a programme on TV3 in New Zealand by the name of Police Stop! It was a spin-off of a UK show of the same name where Police in-car camera footage was used to create what was really one

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Now Gays Are Being Thrown under the Transgender Bus

Now Gays Are Being Thrown under the Transgender Bus

Some time back, I wrote that it was time for the Ls, Gs and Bs to ditch the Ts. Lesbian women and gay men are kidding themselves if they really think a bunch of vicious loonies in drag are really on their side. The transgender lobby are merely using the

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A Conservative Guide to the Culture Wars

A Conservative Guide to the Culture Wars

We all know what the culture wars are, and why conservatives have been steadily losing for decades. The culture wars are not just annoying and spiteful, they’re consequential. At its broadest, in Andrew Breitbart’s famous dictum, “politics is downstream from culture.” More specifically, the culture wars are the

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Government Won’t Save Us from Big Media

Government Won’t Save Us from Big Media

Dale Steinreich mises.org Dale Steinreich is an economist and an Associated Scholar of the Mises Institute. A sitting US president is suspended from Twitter, Facebook, and email service provider Campaign Monitor. A pillow entrepreneur not only loses his personal and business Twitter accounts but also ten retail stores for

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Facebook CEO Takes ‘Anti-vax’ Stance

Facebook CEO Takes ‘Anti-vax’ Stance

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Is Twitter Violating Contractual Agreements When It Expels Users?

Is Twitter Violating Contractual Agreements When It Expels Users?

Lipton Matthews mises.org Lipton Matthews is a researcher, business analyst, and contributor to Merion West, The Federalist, American Thinker, Intellectual Takeout, mises.org, and Imaginative Conservative. Liberals rarely defend the property rights of corporations, so it is quite amusing that scores of them are arguing that social media companies

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Parler Slams Big Tech in Relaunch

Parler Slams Big Tech in Relaunch

Alexander Hall newsbusters.org The wildly popular free speech platform Parler has made a sudden return after being nuked from the internet by Amazon Web Services back in January. “Parler, the world’s #1 free speech social media platform with over 20 million users, is announcing its official relaunch today,

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When Corporations Become More Powerful Than the Government, Our Definition of “Big Brother” Needs to Change

When Corporations Become More Powerful Than the Government, Our Definition of “Big Brother” Needs to Change

Michael Snyder endoftheamericandream.com Throughout human history, our God-given liberties and freedoms have often been brutally crushed by oppressive governments, and that is still happening all over the world today.  But in our time, an additional threat to our liberties and freedoms has emerged.  Global corporations just continue to

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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

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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

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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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