‘Hate Speech’ Bans Become a Weapon of the Powerful
Germany’s prosecutions of meme-posters provide a chilling example of what happens when governments dictate what counts as ‘hate.’
Social Media
What Is Next? Information Disorder Syndrome
Making information disorder a syndrome affecting the individual allows the state through the medical and insurance industries to step in and force the individual to conform to societal norms.
Lacking a Basis, It Is Just ‘Because...’
The problem now is that none of the most pertinent questions directed to TikTok’s American critics are being answered, or even acknowledged. The federal government is limiting its responses to ‘because…’
Resisting Musk’s Social Credit System 𝕏
I refuse to wear that digital face mask, Mr Musk. Impose your social distancing to flatten that AI curve, I’ll simply publish and consume content elsewhere. We must resist the robots.
School Shooters Crossed Paths in Online Communities
A month after a student opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School, another killed a classmate at Antioch High School. Both were active in an internet subculture that glorifies mass shooters and encourages young people to commit attacks.
Meta Is Still Fact Checking In NZ
I received a polite email this week from Kiwi journalist George Driver who is an official ‘fact checker’ for Facebook who queried one of my recent posts.
Really? Where Are You Going to Go?
It isn’t Meta or X who need to change: it is corporations and advertising companies who need to realise the world has changed.
Zuckerberg’s Sudden Censorship Thaw Is Not Free Speech
Facebook is trying to realign itself to stay relevant. But will it go beyond paying mere lip service to those demanding freedom?
The Misinformation Bill Is Gone for Now
The Australian government will most probably go back to the drawing board and hope to revive the bill in the new year.
Why DOGE Was Able to Torpedo the Rushed Spending Bill
New ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ begins with a bang.
UK Online Censorship Laws Come Into Force
The rules will apply to more than 100,000 companies from around the world, from the largest social media platforms to ‘very small’ providers of entertainment, dating, gambling and other online services.
Under-16s: Protecting Our Kids or Power?
To exclude under-16s, social media companies will need to identify all Australian users, likely through a digital ID or at least by storing information that is then accessible by court order.
Ban the Culture While You’re at It
We can only hope this entire debacle sheds light on how brazen Labor and their lust for power really is – so we can stop it.
The Weapon No One Is Talking About
Social media has repeatedly been proven the best way to win without explosions.
The X Factor: Elon Musk
The world’s richest man has singlehandedly transformed the dominant communications industry of the 21st century.
And the Left Celebrate This
The sickening response to a man’s death reveals a disturbing component of left-wing ideology.