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May 13, 2024
An Australian federal judge has swooped in to defend free speech by siding with Elon Musk in the tech billionaire’s latest spat with Australia’s Ministry of Truth.
On May 13, Federal Court Justice Geoffrey Kennett blocked the application for the…
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April 23, 2024
Elon Musk has been targeted by yet another authoritarian government for his company X’s reluctance to censor political content.
In an April 23 interview with Sky News, Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie appeared to threaten Elon Musk over his…
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February 16, 2024
Australia’s Communications Minister threatened that X (formerly Twitter) will be in “big trouble” if it does not comply with the country’s proposed new censorship laws.
The Australian Financial Review reported February 12 that Australian…
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February 1, 2024
Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi broke the news that the censorship outfit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) allegedly misrepresented itself to the IRS to gain tax-exempt status.
Taibbi exposed the CCDH, or the “digital…
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February 22, 2023
Want to fight global warming? Start rationing like Britain did in World War 2! At least, that’s the idea that “one of Britain’s oldest and most influential newspapers” is promoting.
British publication The Times ran one of the nuttiest bits of…
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July 11, 2022
A United Kingdom lawmaker proposed a communist Chinese-style social credit score. Wake up, West!
U.K. Conservative Party lawmaker John Penrose proposed an addition to the anti-free speech Online Safety Bill requiring platforms to create a…
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May 24, 2022
Australian eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant called for a “recalibration” of “freedom of speech” online during the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland on Monday. BusinessWorld contributing editor Pranjal Sharma also claimed…
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December 23, 2021
A former police officer won his U.K. Court of Appeal challenge to “hate incidents” guidance from the College of Policing in a big victory for free speech.
Harry Miller had a complaint filed against him after tweeting allegedly “transphobic”…
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November 12, 2021
Who would you trust more for a medical opinion: LinkedIn or a cardiologist? Well, according to LinkedIn, you should trust it. The job networking platform reportedly removed an interview of cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra for discussing an alleged…
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November 1, 2021
A proposed law in the United Kingdom (U.K.) would reportedly regulate social media like a “hazard industry,” with new methods of censorship. Free speech advocates should be concerned.
The U.K. Online Safety Bill would allow communications regulator…