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Australia’s House Passes Misinformation Bill, Opposition Says It ‘Belongs in a Dictatorship’
However, Labor defended the legislation as a necessary step to protect the safety of Australians and uphold democracy.
November 7, 2024
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Monica O’Shea
Free Speech on Trial
Commentary In a lifetime of observing policy controversies and court cases, we’ve never witnessed anything as crucial to ...
March 6, 2024
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Jeffrey A. Tucker
Arts Council to Update Guidance Following Backlash Over Censorship Concerns
The council said the guidance was 'open to misinterpretation and rejected suggestions that organisations were told to depoliticise ...
February 16, 2024
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Lily Zhou
The First Champion of Free Speech
Commentary Most accounts of the history of free speech political doctrines—after a nod to the Magna Carta (which lays ...
October 23, 2023
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Aaron Kheriaty
BC Woman Sues Chilliwack School Board for Censorship Over Pride Flag Concerns
A grandmother and former education assistant has sued the Chilliwack School Board for what she says amounts to ...
October 18, 2023
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Chandra Philip
You Should Be Very Worried About the Digital Services Act
Commentary Article 11 of The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, which replicates a part of Article 10 of the European ...
September 11, 2023
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David Thunder
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Jordan Peterson and Us All
Commentary John Donne's poem, “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is a fitting analogy for what has occurred to ...
August 26, 2023
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Barry W. Bussey
John Carpay: Canada’s Regulatory Colleges Have No Business Monitoring Speech
Commentary The suppression of free speech is almost always based on arrogance, and boils down to “free speech ...
August 25, 2023
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John Carpay
A Careful Look at the UNDP’s New iVerify Tool
Commentary The U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) has quietly announced the rollout of an automated anti-disinformation tool, iVerify, this spring. ...
August 1, 2023
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Stavroula Pabst
City Minister Warns Banks Should Not Tell People What to Think
Banks should be in no position to “tell us what to think or what political party we should ...
July 27, 2023
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Alexander Zhang
Minister Summons Bank Bosses Over Nigel Farage Account Closure
Bank chiefs have been summoned for a meeting with Treasury ministers to discuss how customers can be protected ...
July 24, 2023
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Alexander Zhang
We Don’t Like What You Say or How You Say It
Commentary Dr. Michael Joyner, an exercise physiologist at the Mayo Clinic, has been admonished by the clinic in ...
June 23, 2023
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Theodore Dalrymple
Free Speech Is on Its Deathbed in Academia—But Students Will Save It
Commentary While in high school, I dreamed of attending a university where my right to say what I ...
May 10, 2023
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Christopher Phillips
Online Age ID Needed to Shield Teens From Violent Pornography: Children’s Commissioner
Violent pornography has a strong influence on children who go on to commit sexual abuse, according to a ...
May 9, 2023
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Owen Evans
My Book Is Being Burned
Commentary On Jan. 25, 2023, Ghent University banned the use of my book “The Psychology of Totalitarianism” in the course ...
February 17, 2023
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Mattias Desmet
The Decline and Fall of the University
Commentary Since I retired from a university, several people have asked if I miss it. I tell them ...
February 9, 2023
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Garrett Sheldon
Encouraging Self-Harm Online Will Become Criminal Offence Under UK’s Online Safety Bill
Online encouragement of self-harm will be criminalised under an updated version of the Online Safety Bill, the UK ...
November 28, 2022
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Alexander Zhang
Online Safety Bill Will Return to UK Parliament Next Month
Upcoming planned legislation to regulate online spaces is returning, the British government confirmed. On Thursday, Commons leader and ...
November 24, 2022
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Owen Evans
Peter Menzies: How Bill C-11 Could Open the Door to State-Controlled Media
Commentary Justin Trudeau’s government is seizing control of the internet and granting itself sweeping new powers that turn ...
November 21, 2022
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Peter Menzies
Criminal Charges Dropped Against Vancouver ‘Street Preacher’
Criminal charges of mischief and creating a disturbance have been dropped against street preacher Steven Brown, who was ...
November 16, 2022
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Marnie Cathcart
Another Lula da Silva Presidency Would Be a Disaster for Brazilian Democracy and the Press
Commentary Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the far-left candidate in Brazil’s presidential elections this year, has resumed his ...
August 14, 2022
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Augusto Zimmermann
Police Investigating Death Threat to JK Rowling After Salman Rushdie Attack
British police said they are investigating a report of an online threat made to JK Rowling after she ...
August 14, 2022
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Alexander Zhang
The Great Reset in Action: Ending Freedom of the Press, Speech, and Expression
Commentary Governments, corporations, and elites have always been fearful of the power of a free press, because it ...
June 29, 2022
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Birsen Filip
Georgetown Law Professor Quits Over Anti-Free Speech Environment: ‘I Won’t Live This Way’
A constitutional law professor at Georgetown University said he no longer wants to work at the institution, which ...
June 6, 2022
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Bill Pan
Dartmouth College Demands $3,600 ‘Security Fee’ for Republican Student-Hosted Online Event
Dartmouth College has demanded its Republican students pay a $3,600 "security fee" for an online event they hosted ...
April 22, 2022
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Bill Pan
Hong Kong Activist Jailed for 15 Months Over Tiananmen Square Massacre Vigil
An activist behind the annual Tiananmen Square vigil in Hong Kong was sentenced to 15 months in prison ...
January 4, 2022
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Frank Fang
UK Doctor Appeals Social Media Ban Over COVID-19 ‘Misinformation’
A British doctor banned from discussing COVID-19 on social media for raising concerns of the safety of vaccines ...
November 5, 2021
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Alexander Zhang
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