Gary Judd KC: Are we experiencing another watershed event?

The BSA may be an unwitting catalyst for rolling back the administrative state

In 1966 there was a watershed event. A National government, under Prime Minister Keith Holyoake, tried to stifle nascent private radio. It failed: the government monopoly was broken.

Patrick Carroll: Jordan Peterson’s License Fiasco Highlights Why Government Licensing Should Be Abolished

On January 3, Jordan Peterson used his recently-reinstated Twitter account to alert the world of a new development in his seemingly-endless battle with mainstream institutions.

“The Ontario College of Psychologists has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting Pierre Poilievre and criticizing Justin Trudeau and his political allies,” Peterson wrote.

S.T. Karnick: Court’s Big Tech Censorship Ruling Is an Exemplary Judgment

Last week’s Fifth Circuit Court decision upholding Texas’ law against Big Tech censorship is a welcome judgment that is worth considering for what it says about our constitutional order and the very purpose of government.

In September 2021, Texas enacted a law that prohibits social media platforms with more than 50 million monthly U.S. users from censoring people based on their viewpoints, requires transparency of companies’ user content policies and their application, and allows individuals to seek compensation for viewpoint discrimination.

NZCPR Weekly: Ministry of Truth

Dear NZCPR Reader,   

This week we expose the sinister plan by the Minister of Justice to undermine our freedom of expression by establishing a unit within his own Ministry to police the information available to voters ahead of next year’s referenda – and we also look into the bizarre decision by the Advertising Standards Authority to ban an ad saying ice cream makes you happy; our NZCPR Guest Commentator Mike Hosking explains why he thinks Andrew Little’s plan to monitor referendum information is the sort of scheme you would expect to see in North Korea; and we have two polls this week – the first asks whether you are concerned about Andrew Little’s plan to control referendum information, and the second asks whether ice cream makes you happy!.

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