Free Speech
The Most Dangerous Disease in the World
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Glenn Greenwald on Resigning from His Own Publication Due to Censorship
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The Day the Truth Died
The journalist that risked everything to break the Edward Snowden story, Glenn Greenwald, has just resigned from the United States news outlet The Intercept. This is astonishing because he founded The Intercept after the challenges of getting Snowden’s message out into the public eye. The sole purpose of The
Attacking Free Speech
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com For the first time since MMP was introduced in 1996, New Zealand voters have given a single political party the absolute power to govern alone. Whether Labour decides to exercise that authority or share their mandate with the Greens, remains to be seen. Whatever arrangement
“Some People Did Something”
Why Muslims don’t address the possibility, however remote, of Muslim extremists infiltrating NZ mosques surprises me. Overseas terrorism does not allay fears, it inflames them. NZ Muslim organisations should be distancing themselves and providing reassurance instead of treating public fear as a personal insult and lobbying for “hate speech”
Face of the Day
When someone like left-wing journalist Glenn Greenwald the founder and editor of The Intercept resigns in disgust you know that the news story is as bad as it is big. The second part to the Biden family’s corruption story is the MSMs deliberate silence, cover-up, deflection and/or deafening
Twitter Launches Unprecedented Censorship of Trump Tweet Critical of Mail-in Votes
Alexander Hall papundits.wordpress.com Alexander Hall contributes posts at the NewsBusters site, and he is a staff writer for MRC TechWatch. Twitter has “fact-checked” the president’s tweets and put them behind filters before, but now users themselves are blocked from showing their approval. Twitter censored President Donald Trump’
Time to Abolish Human Rights Commission
ACT Party “The Human Rights Commission’s left-wing manifesto is clear evidence that the organisation must be abolished,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Commission is a hard-left organisation masquerading as a government department. “Its new manifesto calls for a new hate speech law, a living wage, raising benefits by
Face of the Day
French Ambassador After Islamist Beheading: “France is a Muslim Country” Responding to the beheading of a school teacher by an Islamist in Paris, French ambassador to Sweden Etienne de Gonneville told broadcaster SVT, “France is a Muslim country.” Yes, really. Samuel Paty was decapitated by an 18-year-old Chechen jihadist in
The Publishing Industry Is Committing Suicide
In the late 1970s and early 80s, the music industry was in crisis: the major labels and artists were bloated, coke-addled dinosaurs headed for extinction. The punk explosion hit the music biz like an asteroid. Michael Jackson is credited with saving the major labels (gee, thanks). But it wasn’t
What Do a French Knife Attack and ‘Cancel Culture’ Have in Common?
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a teacher, freelance writer, and the Features Editor of the Canberra Declaration. He contributes regularly at the Spectator Australia, Caldron Pool and The Good Sauce. He hosts his own blog ‘Cross + Culture’ at kurtmahlburg.blog France was left reeling last week after a
Victoria Police: “Protesting Is Not Unlawful, It’s a Human Right”
Dave Pellowe goodsauce.news Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius gave a press conference yesterday regarding police enforcement activity over the upcoming grand final long weekend. Good Sauce guest commentator Topher Field had this to say about his stunning admissions: “Protesting is not unlawful, it’s a human right.” Watch
This Month’s Winner of the BFD Free Speech Award
This month’s winner of the BFD Free Speech award is an unlikely winner as it is the country of France. I still find it hard to believe that France, given its shameful history of appeasement, actually had the fortitude to stand up for free speech but nevertheless France deserves
The Fact Checkers
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Face of the Day
SHOCK: Facebook Declares War on the Babylon Bee On Tuesday, Facebook stood by its decision to demonetize the Christian satire site The Babylon Bee over a satire article regurgitating a witch joke from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Facebook claimed that the article “Senator Hirono Demands ACB Be Weighed