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Tyranny during Its Reign Is Unrecognized by Its Victims

Donald J. Boudreaux www.aier.org Donald J. Boudreaux is a senior fellow with American Institute for Economic Research and with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; a Mercatus Center Board Member; and a professor

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Rowan Atkinson: Cancel Culture is a “Medieval Mob”

Rowan Atkinson: Cancel Culture is a “Medieval Mob”

You have to hand it to a select group of British comedians: they’re among the few in their industry who’ve had the guts to stand up for free speech. In Australia, which, as Steve Waterson recently observed, has the wittiest people on earth, yet the world’s worst

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What Is Section 230 and Why Do Trump and His Allies Want to Repeal It?

What Is Section 230 and Why Do Trump and His Allies Want to Repeal It?

Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is a libertarian-conservative writer, commentator, and activist. She’s a Newsmax Insider and a Contributor to The Washington Examiner. Section 230 simply says that only internet users are responsible for what they write, not the private companies whose websites host the commenters. In

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Big Tech Launches Massive Coordinated Cyber Attack on 74,000,000 Trump Voters — GOP Silent

Big Tech Launches Massive Coordinated Cyber Attack on 74,000,000 Trump Voters — GOP Silent

Cassandra Fairbanks thegatewaypundit.com On Friday, Twitter permanently banned hundreds, if not thousands, of Trump supporters and prominent allies — before banning the president himself. Nearly every account that helped to promote the Stop the Steal rallies or challenge the election results were banned, including Ali Alexander, Michael Coudrey, Gen. Mike

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NZ Police Launch Social Media Snitch Unit

NZ Police Launch Social Media Snitch Unit

‘Trust us, we know what we’re doing’ is, sadly, not a motto that sits comfortably in the perception of NZ Police by the general public; think more, ‘Heavy-handedness is our thing’. So when the NZ Herald announced front-page on the 29th of December that police had set

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Summer Poll #2: Nah, That’s Definitely Not ‘Hate Speech’

Summer Poll #2: Nah, That’s Definitely Not ‘Hate Speech’

Bob McCoskrie Family First National Director Here’s the result of our second Summer Poll, which again confirms that there’s still a load of common sense amongst Kiwis! (Our first one – released last week – is shown at the bottom ). Views on Marriage & Gender Identity Aren’t ‘Hate Speech’

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More New Laws to Hedge in Tech Giants

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

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The Dictator’s Temptation and the Tyrant’s Technique

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

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.

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