On Monday night, millions of Parler users suddenly found that the site was no longer available. Amazon had followed through on its threat to purge the site from the internet. Parler is suing, of course (and looks to have an excellent case against the corporate giant), but in the meantime,
Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com I hail from the Naki and when I first left school, after a brief stint as the bog boy in a car sales yard’s chop shop, I came into the employ of one of the local cow cockies. He was a third-generation
**Updated: 18th January I don’t know about you but I am sick to the back teeth of Twitter, YouTube Facebook, Amazon and Google who are currently de-platforming and censoring conservatives with gay abandon. To give you an example of just how bad it is. I loaded an article
Tiwai Point Smelter deal Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Aluminium smelter deal – who caved? Hamish Rutherford (Herald): Power play: Meridian Energy reaches deal with Rio Tinto over Tiwai Point Smelter Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Tiwai Point negotiations continuing despite breakthrough on smelter RNZ: Locals ‘absolutely thrilled’ about Tiwai Point’s revival Evan
Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Ten seconds later… Twitter, like other media platforms, claims to aim at keeping people safe. In fact, it simply doesn’t see hate speech or harassment from those on its own political wavelength. Thus the account which produced this obnoxious screed – which seeks to dehumanise anyone not voting for Democrat
Fox News contributor Dan Bongino, who also has a stake in Parler, breaks down how he got the news of a possible Parler ban. After President Trump got permanently banned from Twitter, it was announced he has created an account with Parler, a free-speech platform that is partially owned
Kristine Marsh newsbusters.org Last Friday evening, Twitter permanently banned President Trump from their platform. Google, Apple and Amazon immediately followed suit by booting the “free speech” platform Parler, which conservatives flocked to as an alternative to Twitter, from its respective app stores and web services. But the liberal hosts
In a sign that drugs – or threats (both are equally effective I’m informed) – work, and proving the steady decline of standards in NZ media, where the flow of intellect has been reduced to a mere dribble, Damien Grant has succumbed to the sinking lid of stupidity and thrashed out
Covid Nick Wilson & Michael Baker (The Conversation): With COVID-19 mutating and surging, NZ urgently needs to tighten border controls Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Government’s latest Covid measures described as both too strong and too weak RNZ: Covid-19: Ban on UK flights should be considered – Professor Nick Wilson
It’s important to remember, sometimes, just how easily appearances can be deceiving. So when a man says he wants to kill a policeman and, while carrying out that attempt, repeatedly yells “Allahu Akbar”, it’s important to note, at Stuff anyway, that the man is clearly not a Muslim.
Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com If your business is built on the backs of Silicon Valley tyrants (Apple, Google, et al) they can and will attempt to destroy you if and when you become a threat to their interests. They did this to Gab. Then Fortnite. Now Parler. Terrible content
Covid Plan B covidplanb.co.nz Our letter to the NZ Herald regarding the recent story on our NZ Journal of Primary Health Care (https://www.publish.csiro.au/hc/Fulltext/HC20132). Vaccine caution We recently wrote a scientific article in a leading medical journal which featured prominently in a
On 8th January The BFD ran a story entitled “NZ Police Launch Snitch Unit” The writer asserts that we should be “very concerned” about the police setting up a unit to monitor social media. It appears this police action would be “an impingement on our privacy”. What privacy would that
