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Showing posts with label Freedom Under Attack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freedom Under Attack. Show all posts

Friday, November 18, 2022

Martin Hanson: When an incontrovertible statement is ‘controversial’

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” George Orwell, Nineteen eighty four

In Two & Two, a Bafta-nominated short film, a male teacher and twelve schoolboys are in a grey, featureless classroom. Via a loudspeaker the headmaster announces that there are going to be changes and that the students must follow all instructions to the letter. The teacher starts the lesson by writing 2 + 2 = 5 on the blackboard. When the boys protest, he orders them to be silent. He then orders the boys to repeat the equation, and when one student raises his hand to say that two plus two is four, the teacher says, "Don't think, you don't have to think," and again tells the boys that the answer is five. 

Saturday, July 3, 2021

NZCPR Weekly: Muzzling Free Speech



Dear NZCPR Reader,   

In this week’s NZCPR newsletter we investigate Labour’s plan to criminalise free speech and examine some of their misleading claims, our NZCPR Guest Commentator Karl du Fresne reviews the hate speech law change proposals and suggests they could become a nail in Labour’s coffin, and our poll asks whether you believe the proposed hate speech laws are needed.

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