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
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
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
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
The co-ordinated worldwide march on freedom of expression took another nasty turn yesterday, yet again (predictably) to the left, with the eviction of The Conservative Treehouse (TCH) — a pro-Republican site with a strong Christian faith bent — from WordPress, not for any rule violation, not for any inflammatory statements,
The NZ Herald, like legacy media everywhere, is trying to get creative in order to increase their revenue. I received the following email from them yesterday. Hi Juana Commenting is back on nzherald.co.nz and our Apple and Android apps! As a Registered user, you’re able to join
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Michael Rectenwald mises.org/wire/google-election Michael Rectenwald was a Professor of Liberal Studies at New York University (retired). [This is the transcript of the eponymous talk presented at the Mises Institute’s Ron Paul Symposium on November 7, 2020, in Angleton, Texas.] “Don’t be evil” may no
We live in a time of universal deceit – and telling the truth is indeed a revolutionary act. Everyone from J K Rowling to politicians are learning at their peril the cost of stating the blunt biological truth: boys have penises. A West Australian mayor is the latest victim of the
Graham Hill Joe Biden has called for “healing and unity” while Democrats, AOC, the MSM and its operatives call for blacklists and purges to end careers, ostracise, exclude and persecute all those who supported President Trump and work for the federal government. Unity, it seems, means compliance with critical theory,
Eliora Ms Bao Choy, a freelance journalist in Hong Kong, was arrested at her home on Tuesday 3 November 2020 for allegedly making a false declaration to access vehicle ownership records. She was trying to trace those present at the scene of the Yeun Long attacks for a documentary programme
