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Showing posts with label Censorship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Censorship. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Claudio Grass: Freedom of Speech Dying a Slow Death in Europe

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For decades, Western democracies operated under a comfortable consensus: censorship was a blunt instrument reserved for authoritarian regime...
Sunday, July 5, 2026

Graham Adams: Five years on, the tide turns against ideological censors

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It is five years this month since a letter signed by seven Auckland University professors was published in the Listener under the title “In ...
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Saturday, July 4, 2026

Dr Michael Johnston: Psychology journal controversy shows why professional bodies must stay out of politics

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As a former academic, I know how onerous research publication can be. Before being published in a professional journal, an article must unde...
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Friday, June 26, 2026

Dr Kumari Valentine: NZCCP Sets a Precedent of Censorship

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When a professional body removes a peer-reviewed article because it conflicts with organisational values, the issue is no longer a single pu...
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Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Simon O'Connor: We are being misled

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I explore three of the ways many in media manipulate stories and, as Sir Roger Scruton once noted, effectively censor what people read and h...
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Friday, April 24, 2026

David Harvey: Creeping Control

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How the Department of Internal Affairs Is Building a Social Media Surveillance Regime Before Parliament Has Spoken The Bill and the Bureaucr...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Matua Kahurangi: Bikinis, Grok and the great excuse to censor X

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Let’s be honest about what’s actually going on here, because the sudden moral panic from Britain, Australia and Canada reeks of bullsh*t. We...
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Sunday, November 9, 2025

Chris Morrison: The False Temperature Claims That Underpin the COP30 Alarmist Agenda

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The next two weeks of COP30 will see three favourite climate scares relentlessly broadcast to promote the fast-fading hard-Left Net Zero fan...
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Friday, October 17, 2025

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Will the BSA have to back down on this?

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Listen, I don't know how much most people will care about the drama that's unfolding with the BSA. Obviously here in radio world, we...
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Sunday, September 28, 2025

Dr James Allan: In Defence of Cancelling the Left

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This past fortnight has seen an explosion of interest in free speech in the United States. First there was the political assassination of th...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Jillaine Heather: Words, not witch hunts

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We’ve said it over and over: censorship is a trap. The wind changes, and it blows right back in your face. At the Free Speech Union, we’ve s...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Nick Hanne: 30 arrests a day ...

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How many armed police officers does it take to arrest an Irish comedian? No, that's not the beginning of a bad joke. But it's precis...
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Friday, September 5, 2025

Michael Rainsborough: Britain’s Descent Towards Civil War is No Accident

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Having lived in Australia for the past three years, I sense that this country is the least advanced down the road towards the multicultural ...
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Thursday, August 21, 2025

Ele Ludemann: Māori seats passed their use-by date

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When I was thinking about writing a post arguing that the Māori seats have passed their use-by date and asked Goggle Gemini to give me some ...
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Saturday, July 19, 2025

Bob Edlin: Fringe benefits in the dunnies at IRD raise questions.....

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Fringe benefits in the dunnies at IRD raise questions about what staff can say without upsetting the rainbow bunch Free speech is under thre...
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Friday, July 18, 2025

Dr Will Jones: Britons Believe They Can No Longer Speak Their Minds, Poll Finds

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Britons believe they can no longer speak their minds, a poll has found, in the latest indicator of a free speech crisis in the UK, as nearly...
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Monday, July 14, 2025

DTNZ: Australia to require age verification for Google searches

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Australians will soon be required to verify their age when logged into Google or other search engines, under new regulations aimed at “prote...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Barrie Davis: Sir Apirana’s Free Speech

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Congratulations to Jonathan Ayling and the Free Speech Union (FSU) and also to Dr Muriel Newman and the New Zealand Center for Political Res...
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Saturday, June 7, 2025

Nick Hanne: Silenced for exposing foreign interference in NZ? Surely not.

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Courage comes in all shapes and sizes. I saw this for myself last Friday in the Manukau District Court when I went to support Portia Mao on...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Eliora: Freedom of Speech: Surveillance and Threats

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Prior to Covid-19 in 2020 it would rarely cross minds that governments were so deep, dark, suspicious and controlling that they would watch ...
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