The Irish Government announced it is scrapping its plans to introduce significant updates to Ireland’s existing hate speech laws, as there is not enough support for the proposed legislation. It gained notoriety when it came under fire from Elon Musk.
A holocaust could happen because some people built a structure within which only they could speak as they wished, whilst preventing others from talking back. Tyranny and pogroms thrive on one-way conversations.
What purpose are all these soft, hard, public, and private exercises of violence serving? The standard of living is suffering, lives are shortening, and illiteracy has swept through an entire generation. It unleashed violence as a way of life.
A German “Citizens Council” has submitted recommendations to the German Ministry of the Interior calling, among other things, for the potential criminalisation of “disinformation”.
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So there are actually two different paintings for two different worlds – the controlled world and the controller world. Like in the analogy of Plato’s Cave, the public is only allowed to see is a vague shadow of the controller world.
The bill outsources truth policing to social media platforms on the pain of having to pay up to 5% of their annual revenue if they fail to comply. The result is sure to be a massive chilling effect.
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Today, Communications Minister Michelle Rowland tabled a new version of the bill which is intended to “carefully balance the public interest in combatting seriously harmful misinformation and disinformation with the freedom of expression that is so fundamental to our democracy.”
On August 27, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued a statement confirming what the Twitter Files, Murthy vs. Missouri, and many others had long claimed – that the Biden administration aggressively pushed to censor First Amendment-protected speech on social media.
With all these new court documents, and intrepid researchers so heavily focused on the case, we are more aware than ever of the multitude of ways that government and its partners are curating public culture for political ends.
In 1944, F.A. Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom, a much-cited book to this day. The chapter called “The End of Truth” explains that any large-scale government planning will necessarily entail censorship and propaganda, and hence control of free speech.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s companion lawsuit Kennedy v. Biden has been consolidated by the court into our Missouri v. Biden case. Based upon documents we obtained on discovery, the court recently found that Kennedy meets the Supreme Court’s standing criteria.
In order to “Follow the science,” the anti-lab leak crowd requires everyone to believe that scientists routinely fall off roofs and that totalitarian regimes never lie or withhold information…Which side was censored at the behest of the Federal Government?
