Categories for Free Speech
Attempts to Smear Lockdown Sceptics Have Backfired
The efforts of left-wing lockdown fanatics to smear lockdown sceptics as libertarians in the pay of the Koch brothers has backfired spectacularly, say Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff.
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Why Free Speech Matters and the Arguments You Can Use to Defend it From Woke Authoritarians
Listen to Jacob Mchangama talk about free speech and what arguments you can use to defeat the woke authoritarians at the Free Speech Union's launch of his book Free Speech: A Global History From Socrates to Social Media.
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Free Speech Union Urges Human Rights Watchdog to Investigate Nottingham University for Withdrawing Offer of Honorary Degree to Dr. Tony Sewell
The Free Speech Union has written to the ECHR urging it to investigate Nottingham University for withdrawing its offer of an honorary degree to Dr. Tony Sewell. His sin? Saying the UK is *not* institutionally racist.
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The Importance of Questioning Western Foreign Policy
Supplying arms to Ukraine *may* work, but we shouldn’t just assume it’s the right policy. The best thing the West can do is pressure both sides to negotiate, in the hope of a reaching some kind of settlement.
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We Have Ways of Making You… Not Talk
The Online Safety Bill is a missed opportunity. It's not that it will make social media companies even more likely to ban dissenters. It's that it doesn’t do enough to check the already rampant censoriousness of Big Tech.
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Chicago Students Try to Cancel Professor Who Predicted Ukraine Crisis
Back in 2015, John Mearsheimer, said: "The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked". Quite prophetic, no? But now students are trying to cancel him.
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In Wartime, Dissent Should Not be Confused With Disloyalty
Hillary Clinton has accused Tucker Carlson of "giving aid and comfort" to the enemy because he questioned US support for Ukraine. But dissent isn't treason and our belief in free speech is what distinguishes us from Putin.
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Why are the BBC and YouTube STILL Censoring Views Critical of Masks?
Despite the Government mandates on masks being removed it’s still the BBC’s and YouTube’s view that citizens are unable to express the view that the policies were ever wrong or ill-advised.
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Ofcom Replies to Complaint About Sky’s Collaboration With the Nudge Unit to Use Covert Psychological Techniques to Promote Climate Change Dogma
Ofcom has replied to the complaint about Sky's collaboration with the Nudge Unit to promote climate change propaganda. It has dismissed it on the grounds that Sky's 'Net Zero' gobbledegook is "scientifically established".
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Scientists Reluctant to Study Vaccine Side Effects, Notes Top Journal
A surprisingly candid report in the journal Science notes that researchers are reluctant to study vaccine side effects for fear of causing vaccine hesitancy. “Everyone is tiptoeing around it," one researcher said.
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