The good will be better able to fend off wickedness if they grow more competent in understanding how words (information, hate) are being weaponized by wicked elites. We grow our competency by applying sound moral philosophy to such matters.
If it is no longer safe to mention the word “dictator” regarding presidential candidates, the First Amendment will be worth less than the most noxious campaign promise. But at least Facebook will always have plenty of cute kitty photos.
No political actor has been more influential in overturning election integrity efforts than Marc Elias. He led the crusade to overturn the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, which banned “drop boxes” in the state.
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Morrow was instructed by her employer to remove the interview with me. When she refused, the State fired her—a clear violation by a government employer of an employee’s First Amendment rights. Now she is fighting back in court.
Archive.org has stopped taking images of content on all platforms. For the first time in 30 years, we have gone a long swath of time since this service has chronicled the life of the Internet in real time.
In a utopian world where absolute truth is decipherable, we are surely obliged to separate fact from fiction. But in a corruptible world, it’s worth remembering that medical patients are often encouraged to seek a second opinion.
Note that in the period covered in X’s latest “Transparency Report” to the EU on its “content moderation” efforts, nearly 90% of such requests for information on the purveyors of ostensibly “illegal or harmful speech” came from one country: Germany.
Christianity threatens the regime because it demands faith in something greater than the state. The assault on religion is not collateral damage in the war against free expression; suppressing worship is fundamental to the cause of tyranny.
A recent unnerving development is the disappearance of web pages. If history can be erased, it can be denied. Which puts us into a ‘save the furniture’ mindset – how can we preserve important kernels of truth for our children?
The other side needs to kill free speech to take over. Below is Tedros, who talks about trust and how to get it back—by killing free speech, of course. See how he twists the free speech story.
One sign of untruthfulness is the uttering of untrue statements. Sometimes you know about the matter in question, and the statement disagrees with your understanding. You then suspect the speaker is untruthful. What are the leading signs of untruthfulness?
The person who wanted to use violence to cut the brain out of the truthspeaker was merely protecting herself against a terrible truth she could not handle. It’s the liar more than anyone who has reason to fear free speech.
