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Ex-Manchester City Player’s Police Visits: Joey Barton’s Troubling Encounters Raise Questions About UK Speech Police
Ex-Manchester City Player’s Police Visits: Joey Barton’s Troubling Encounters Raise Questions About UK Speech Police Ex-footballer Joey Barton criticizes police visits over Twitter posts, drawing parallels to North Korean intimidation. Joey Barton, the former Manchester City and Newcastle footballer, has been experiencing incessant police visits as a result of his Twitter posts, creating what he […]
Inside the UN Plan to Control Speech Online
Inside the UN Plan to Control Speech Online The UN is escalating its war against ‘conspiracy theories’ and ‘misinformation’ by creating an ‘internet of trust.’ A powerful United Nations agency has unveiled a plan to regulate social media and online communication while clamping down on what it describes as “false information” and “conspiracy theories,” sparking […]
The Costs and Casualties of Government’s Information Total War
The Costs and Casualties of Government’s Information Total War “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,” This phrase, misattributed to Voltaire, has largely come to dominate—and confuse—our understanding of the importance of free speech in a free society. That misunderstanding seems to be at the […]
Comer Launches Probe into State Department’s Alleged Funding of Group Blacklisting Conservative Media ‘Under the Guise of Combatting Disinformation’
Comer Launches Probe into State Department’s Alleged Funding of Group Blacklisting Conservative Media ‘Under the Guise of Combatting Disinformation’ Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, delivers remarks during a hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, on Feb. 01, 2023. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) House Oversight Chair James […]
Say Only What We Want to Hear, or We Will Take Away Your Livelihood
Say Only What We Want to Hear, or We Will Take Away Your Livelihood The attacks on free and open discussion are becoming more and more widespread. Now, as Toby Young explains in an article this morning, the payment service PayPal has closed the accounts of the Daily Sceptic, which often publishes criticism of the government policy in various […]
Leftists Hate Free Speech Because They Fear Dissent, Not “Disinformation”
Leftists Hate Free Speech Because They Fear Dissent, Not “Disinformation” I think one of the most bizarre social developments of the past 10 years in the US has been the slow but steady shift of the political left as supposed defenders of free speech to enemies of free speech. The level of mental gymnastics on […]
UK Considering Legislation That Would Imprison Internet Trolls
UK Considering Legislation That Would Imprison Internet Trolls This blatant attempt at the censorship of online speech is deeply concerning. If you ever need a reminder of how important freedom of speech is, all you need to do is look across the pond. The United Kingdom, which doesn’t have a First Amendment, has slowly seen […]
“Goodbye Asset Inflation” – Marc Faber Fears Funding Chaos Contagion From Repo Markets
“Goodbye Asset Inflation” – Marc Faber Fears Funding Chaos Contagion From Repo Markets Faber wrote in his Monthly Market Commentary for October, under the title : THE THREAT TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND TO THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF OPINION IS A MENACE TO LIBERTY, The historian Niall Ferguson recently wrote an article entitled: A message to […]
France: More Death to Free Speech
France: More Death to Free Speech Defending someone who is accused of being a “racist” implies the risk of being accused of being a “racist” too. Intellectual terror reigns in France. France is moving from a “muzzled press to a muzzling press that destroys free speech”. — Alain Finkielkraut, writer and philosopher. Writers other than […]
CrossFit Warns Those Who Engage In ‘Activities Contrary to Prevailing Opinion’ to Avoid Facebook
CrossFit Warns Those Who Engage In ‘Activities Contrary to Prevailing Opinion’ to Avoid Facebook Source: (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) As conservatives warn of the dangers of Silicon Valley’s left-wing monopoly on political speech, one fitness and self-improvement company has jumped into the fray to discuss free speech on social media. Crossfit, the high-intensity gym program, released a […]
California Democrat: “I Would Love To…Regulate The Content Of Speech”
California Democrat: “I Would Love To…Regulate The Content Of Speech” One California Democrat has finally admitted what we all knew, that politicians in government want to end free speech permanently. Representative Ted Lieu said he would “love to be able to regulate the content of speech” during an interview Wednesday. Lieu admitted that the only reason […]
Avoid the Slippery Slope
Avoid the Slippery Slope Everything government touches turns to crap. Ringo Starr Social media companies, search engines, and payments platforms are excising conservative, libertarian, and assorted anti-government voices. SLL argued in “The Friendly Faces of Fascism” that the largest and best known of these companies were essentially arms of the government. They are mechanisms for […]
America’s Kristallnacht?
America’s Kristallnacht? If the US government prosecutes Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, it will mark a point of no return. We’ll never know what “average” Germans thought on November 11, 1938, the day after Kristallnacht. Perhaps a few recognized it for what it was: a turning point, an acceleration of Germany’s descent into hell. America’s Crystal […]
How Democracies Turn Tyrannical
How Democracies Turn Tyrannical Both monarchs of the past and dictators more in the present have denied limits on their power to command and coerce those under their control. For most of the last three centuries, the ideas of liberty and democracy have been intertwined in the minds of both friends and foes of a […]
