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The Face Behind Australia’s Censorship Push

Andrew Lowenthal / April 27, 2024 / Censorship, Law, Technology / 9 minute read

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To some, Inman Grant is a hero, protecting children from online abuse, ridding the internet of revenge porn, and breaking new ground in leading a globally coordinated response to the problem of online hate. To others she is an e-Karen, a Censorship Commissar with a personal vendetta against Elon Musk, cynically exploiting multiple tragedies to lead a bureaucratic power grab and censor the speech of everyday citizens, both in Australia and globally. Both may be true.

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The Numbers Favor Our Side

Bill Rice / April 26, 2024 / Government, Society / 8 minute read

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On one side, we have the 200,000 or so leaders of thousands of important captured organizations. On the other side, we have 10 to 20 million citizens who’ve found each other in the alternative media. In the middle, we have a couple billion people who are oblivious to what’s really at stake.

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New ABC Fact-Checkers, Same Problems?

Maryanne Demasi / April 26, 2024 / Censorship, Government, Media / 8 minute read

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Will the ABC course-correct with Williams at the helm? Now that trust in legacy media is at historical lows, the ABC’s partnership with TNI does little to assuage fears that the network has passed the point of no return.

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The Teams Are Set for World War III

Toby Rogers / April 26, 2024 / Government, Society / 5 minute read

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The different sides in this war are not nation-states. Instead, Team Tyranny is a bunch of different business interests pushing what has become a giant multi-trillion dollar grift. And Team Freedom is ordinary people throughout the world just trying to return to the classical economic and political liberalism that drove human progress from 1776 until 2020.

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Katherine Maher is Worse Than a Leftist

Andrew Lowenthal / April 25, 2024 / Government, Media / 3 minute read

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I don’t remember it being a trait of the Left to work at the World Bank, the National Democratic Institute, and HSBC, intern at the Council of Foreign Relations, be a WEF young leader, or a fellow at the Atlantic Council, a NATO affiliated think-tank. Maher is what I call a Cosmopolitan Authoritarian – a cultural libertine that institutional power has anointed into the charmed circle.

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Censors Failed to Cancel NatCon

David Thunder / April 25, 2024 / Government, Law, Society / 3 minute read

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This bizarre saga leaves one wondering: where is the looming threat of authoritarianism in Europe – in right-wing conservatives who gather in hotels to talk about the future of Europe, or in leftist activists and mayors who want their political adversaries silenced and “cancelled” before they even open their mouth?

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What is Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)?

Debbie Lerman / April 25, 2024 / Government, Law, Public Health / 10 minute read

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During the Covid pandemic, the U.S. government spent billions of dollars on nearly 400 products intended to protect, diagnose, and treat hundreds of millions of people – all with the label “EUA” or “Emergency Use Authorization.” But what does EUA actually mean?

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Now We Are Supposed to Cheer Government Surveillance?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / April 24, 2024 / Censorship, Government, Media / 7 minute read

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Somehow – call me naive – I just didn’t expect the New York Times to be all-in on the immediate establishment of the surveillance state and universal censorship by the “awesome” Deep State. But think of this. If the NYT can be fully captured by this ideology, and probably captured by the money that goes with it, so can any other institution. You have probably noticed a similar editorial line being pushed by Wired, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Salon, Slate, and other venues, including the entire suite of publications owned by Conde Nast including Vogue and GQ magazine.

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From Bird Flu to Climate Snakes

Breeauna Sagdal / April 24, 2024 / Government, Public Health / 5 minute read

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As each industry becomes centralized and consolidated under the few, consumer choice simultaneously disappears. As choice disappears, so does the ability of the individual to meet their specific and unique needs.

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Antidepressants for Everyone

Maryanne Demasi / April 24, 2024 / Pharma / 5 minute read

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Encouraging people to diagnose their own depression and buy medication without a prescription – medication which has an unfavourable benefit:harm profile in most people and is difficult to stop taking – is a very bad idea.

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Yes, Believe Your Lyin’ Eyes

Rob Jenkins / April 23, 2024 / History, Society / 7 minute read

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And ultimately, of course, it’s not just about Covid. Without the truth-tellers to keep them at least somewhat in check, what will they gaslight us about next? The answer is anything they want—and quite possibly everything.

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How the ‘Bioterrorism’ Era Began

Meryl Nass / April 23, 2024 / Government, History / 7 minute read

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In November 1997 US Secretary of Defense William Cohen held up a 5 lb bag of Domino sugar in front of an army of cameras and told the world that if the bag contained anthrax it could wipe out NYC or Washington, DC. That was not true, but it provided a fitting justification for the start of the DOD’s “biodefense” vaccine program, beginning with mandatory anthrax vaccinations for soldiers in March 1998.

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