Jeff Deist mises.org YouTube, the dominant video platform owned by Google, decided yesterday to remove a Mises Institute video. This decision apparently lasts for all eternity, cannot be appealed to an actual human, and comes with this friendly admonition: “Because it’s the first time, this is just a
Hong Kong Free Press globalvoices.org “What Animal Crossing represented was not just entertainment […]” The following post was written by Candice Chau and originally published on Hong Kong Free Press on November 21, 2020. This edited version is republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. Japanese video game
Simon Black Sovereign Valley Farm, Chile sovereignman.com Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Monday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. ACLU and Professor Team
The Pete Evans Kristallnacht that occurred this week, almost exactly 82 years after the original, was instructive and informative, don’t you think? The torching of the man’s reputation and smashing of his business an episode of ugly mob-rule the type of which the thugs and goons that composed
In case you don’t know, Pete Evans is an Australian celebrity chef and judge. He also happens to be one of the latest to be cancelled because of a remark or tweet. The Warehouse will stop selling the work of controversial Australian chef Pete Evans but his books and
Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com I chanced upon this photo in my hometown’s FB Page and was struck by the metaphor for our time that it represents. Presently, Cancel Culture is in full swing and is replacing accepted societal norms with the Globalist’s new or required norm. In the
William Huang William Huang is a product of the one-child policy as he is the only son in the family. Born and raised in China, it is only when he went overseas to study that he had an epiphany, realizing just how much damage this policy has done to the
Modern-day book burners have been busy this month and have successfully de-platformed two authors for the crime of posting memes or opinions on social media that the modern-day book burners don’t like. Since Christmas is around the corner and we are all looking for some great holiday reading I
Nicholas Coppel lens.monash.edu Since the advent of web-based social media platforms, the creation and dissemination of information is no longer in the hands of a few. Citizens can now simultaneously be creators, consumers and spreaders of content. The analytics and algorithms of social media mean citizens have a
If universities are breeding the leaders of the future, then we’re facing a horrifying and intellectually impoverished, darkened future. The Enlightenment is over, folks: the Inquisitors have won. In the 1960s, university students were the spear-carriers of the Free Speech Movement. Today, their children and grandchildren are tearing it
Short of modern China’s mass surveillance society, communist East Germany was perhaps one of the most spied-upon in history. Combining typical communist paranoia with Teutonic efficiency, the Stasi secret police deployed twelve times as many secret police officers per head as the Gestapo. Worse, with an informal network of
Keith Quinn has got himself into hot water recently for having the audacity to tell kiwi blokes to harden up. Harden up! You can’t say that in 2020. Sam Cane is also in hot water for having the absolute hide to tell kiwis they don’t understand the game.
Arthur Ah, the left. There is one hypocrisy of the left in general that is particularly galling. The hate speech hypocrisy. They oppose racism but denigrate one bunch of people by skin colour. They oppose discrimination but discriminate against one group of people by age. They oppose sexism but discriminate
Jordan Williams Free Speech Coalition There have been attacks on free speech in our universities for the past two years. Massey University banned Dr Don Brash from speaking at a student politics society event, Massey cancelled Speak Up for Women’s Feminism 2020 event, and Auckland University of Technology cancelled
The US presidential election is far from over, but that hasn’t stopped Joe Biden (or his handlers, at least) from acting as if he’s already in the Oval Office. Biden’s team have already set up a legally-fictitious “Office of the President-Elect”, so what policy directions are we
