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Canada To Create Registry Of Podcasters In Potential Censorship Initiative
Canada To Create Registry Of Podcasters In Potential Censorship Initiative Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking Canada down a dangerous path of censorship to regulate streaming services and social media platforms. The next regulation phase comes as some podcasters will soon have to register with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. The Online Streaming Act, formerly Bill C-11, goes […]
Don’t Be Fooled by the Deplatforming of Facebook
Don’t Be Fooled by the Deplatforming of Facebook The push for speech control escalates. There is now a concentration of stories concerning social media companies and their role in shaping political thought. We are nine months from a pivotal presidential election in the U.S. and the push is on to ensure that the outcome goes […]
Canada’s Crude Oil Production Cuts Are Unsustainable
Canada’s Crude Oil Production Cuts Are Unsustainable In an attempt to combat a ballooning oil glut and dramatically plummeting prices, the premier of Alberta Rachel Notley introduced an unprecedented measure at the beginning of December when she is mandating that oil companies in her province cut production. This directive was particularly surprising in the context […]
Why Bad Economics Makes Such Good Politics
Why Bad Economics Makes Such Good Politics As the election nears, politicians will more and more frantically point out what wonderful favors they’ve done for the voters — or what favors they will do for the voters, if elected. Of course, they never mean all the voters. They mean groups or individuals within the voting […]
Why We Don’t Have Principled Politicians
Why We Don’t Have Principled Politicians Politicians choose their stances on issues based on public opinion, not principles. Recently, Senator Chuck Schumer introduced a bill that would decriminalize marijuana on the federal level. He stated that the legality of marijuana should be a matter left up to individual states. This ringing endorsement of federalism might […]
In a Stateless World, Can You Grow Veggies In Your Front Yard?
In a Stateless World, Can You Grow Veggies In Your Front Yard? The Miami Herald reports that a local couple is going all the way to the state supreme court to fight a local ordinance banning front-yard vegetable gardens: Hermine Ricketts and her husband Tom Carroll may grow fruit trees and flowers in the front yard […]
A Video Game Analogy to Our Energy Predicament
A Video Game Analogy to Our Energy Predicament The way the world economy is manipulated by world leaders is a little like a giant video game. The object of the game is to keep the world economy growing, without too many adverse consequences to particular members of the world economy. We represent this need for growth […]
Goodbye Net Neutrality; Hello Competition
Goodbye Net Neutrality; Hello Competition We should take our deregulation where we can get it. At long last, with the end of “net neutrality,” competition could soon come to the industry that delivers Internet services to you. You might be able to pick among a range of packages, some minimalist and some maximalist, depending […]
If You Give the State an Inch, It Will Take a Mile
If You Give the State an Inch, It Will Take a Mile There’s No Such Thing as Neutral Intervention Humans are imperfect beings. Try as we may, each of us is subject to some degree of inconsistency in our own thought patterns. Even the greatest champions of liberty who have made invaluable contributions to the […]
Regulation–The Hidden Curse
REGULATION – THE HIDDEN CURSE Regulations are nearly always introduced with the best intentions. In financial services, they aim to stop unscrupulous brokers and banks from ripping off the public through bad practices. Manufacturers are banned from making products which are dangerous to children, the environment, or which might fail through shoddy workmanship. However, state […]
What’s Different About Monetary Policy?
What’s Different About Monetary Policy? Many people agree that it’s important to move to a free market in money (i.e. the gold standard). They also say that it’s just as important to fight bad taxes and regulation. In their view, government interference in the economy is like friction in a car. The more friction you […]
The Case of Glyphosate: Product Promoters Masquerading as Regulators?
The Case of Glyphosate: Product Promoters Masquerading as Regulators? On 20 March, the World Health Organisation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said that glyphosate was probably carcinogenic to humans. This is just one step below the risk designation of ‘known carcinogen’. The European Unioin is currently in the process of assessing the IARC’s research and will re-evaluate […]
Birth of What Will Prove a Short Siege
Birth of What Will Prove a Short Siege I see with no surprise that Washington is stepping up its campaign to censor the internet. It had to come, and will succeed. It will put paid forever to America’s flirtation with freedom. The country was never really a democracy, meaning a polity in which final power […]
