Free Speech
More New Laws to Hedge in Tech Giants
Last week, the Australian government tabled world-first laws to force tech giants like Google and Facebook to start paying for news content scraped from media outlets and to meet minimum standards, including giving notice of changes to their algorithms. The government says that its mandatory news media bargaining code was
The Dictator’s Temptation and the Tyrant’s Technique
Bruce Logan The Prime Minister, in the wake of the Royal Commission report on the Christchurch terror attack, would have us believe that hate speech legislation will protect Islam and other minorities from racial and religious disharmony. There is a worm at the root. Hate speech law must always have
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Hate Speech Laws Are Attacks on Democracy, Free Speech
Daphna Whitmore rdln.wordpress.com It is clear from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch massacre that Brenton Tarrant had easy access to a firearms licence. The police failed abysmally in their duty to prevent semi-automatic weapons and ammunition from getting into the hands of a psychopath. In
“Catholics Are Right about Birth Control”
There was a piece of spray-painted graffiti I used to pass by regularly in Wellington, in the car park of a building on Tory St. It was a play on the words of French Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot and proclaimed “We will never be free until the last politician is
Murder to Shut Down Free Speech in Afghanistan; Hate Speech Law to Shut Down Free Speech in NZ
The PM has given Andrew Little the dubious role of implementing the recommendations set out in the Royal Commission Report into the Christchurch massacre. The recommendation regarding hate speech is found in Section 8 paragraph 4 of the report. “Hate speech is a less precise term. In this report we
