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Affirmative Action Entrenches Division and Bigotry

Ramesh Thakur / July 1, 2023 / Law, Society / 7 minute read

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Every affirmative action produces an equal and opposite sectarian reaction. If a government frames public policy in a group-conscious way, it cannot expect groups suffering relative deprivation to ignore group identity. For any one student admitted under a racial quota, only one alternative person would have succeeded in a merit system. But hundreds of rejected students end up feeling aggrieved and resentful for having lost out due to preferential policies.

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CISA Was Behind the Attempt to Control Your Thoughts, Speech, and Life

Brownstone Institute / June 30, 2023 / Law, Technology / 6 minute read

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The House Report indicates that CISA was a central actor in censoring criticism of the Covid regime in the ensuing months and years. The agency is representative of the cabal of censorial and unaccountable officials engaged in public-private partnerships designed to keep us in the dark.

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A Look Back from Canadian Wildfires to Australian Bushfires and Floods

Ramesh Thakur / June 22, 2023 / History, Law, Policy / 20 minute read

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Reports and videos of the smoke and haze from the intense wildfires enveloping Canada and drifting down south into the US bring back vivid memories of Australia’s two-month long bushfires (in the Australian vernacular: Canberra is the country’s bush capital) three and a half years ago and floods last year. And so does the claim that the fires and floods validate the apocalyptic warnings and the ensuing impassioned debate over how much this is evidence of a climate emergency owing to anthropogenic global warming.

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Defining Dictator Down Won’t Make Us Free

James Bovard / June 20, 2023 / History, Law, Policy / 4 minute read

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Perhaps Biden could satisfy his gender-fluid supporters by coming out publicly and personally identifying as “non-dictator.” But other Americans will continue wryly watching the political rascality, laughing at the media’s snit-fits, and awaiting the next judicial demolition of Biden’s decrees.

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Julian Assange and the War Against You

Brownstone Institute / June 20, 2023 / History, Law, Society / 5 minute read

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It did not begin three years ago. The groundwork for the censorial technocracy we face today was laid with a series of targeted hits that created enemies of the state. They did great things for the public well-being but were brutally punished for it. To this day, these people languish in an imprisoned state, martyrs for the freedom we once took for granted and the rights we hope to regain.

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Better to Have No Commission Than This One

Laura Dodsworth / June 14, 2023 / History, Law, Society / 4 minute read

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Next time there is a pandemic, people will be able to say ‘Baroness Hallett’s report stated that the UK government didn’t lock down fast – or hard – enough. We won’t make that mistake again!’ There will be no redemption, just a long, hard sentence, swiftly imposed. Once again, lives will be ruined, not saved.

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United States: Fifty Little Dictatorships

Brownstone Institute / June 11, 2023 / Government, Law / 6 minute read

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This legal push has received no public attention, and not even Zwieg’s expert journalism seems to have broken through the wall set up by the mainstream media. And that is precisely why anyone concerned about the future needs to get the word out. The efforts toward fundamental regime change are real, threatening, and deeply dangerous to the future of liberty itself.

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The Censorship Hegemon Must Be Stopped

Aaron Kheriaty / June 11, 2023 / Censorship, Government, Law, Media, Society, Technology / 7 minute read

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This agency was created in the waning days of the Obama administration, supposedly to protect our digital infrastructure against cyberattacks from computer viruses and nefarious foreign actors. But less than one year into their existence, CISA decided that their remit also should include protecting our “cognitive infrastructure” from various threats.

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Europe’s Digital Services Act Puts Free Speech at the Mercy of Eurocrats

David Thunder / June 8, 2023 / Law / 3 minute read

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The Digital Services Act is an endless maze of complicated regulations worthy of a team of lawyers. Seeing as I don’t have a budget to hire a team of lawyers, I decided to skim through the Act for myself. It does not make for pleasant bedtime reading, not only because it is a morass of complicated legalese, but also, because what hides behind this legalese is an attempt by EU politicians to get social media platforms under their thumb, through

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Atlantic Council Takes Up the Censorship Sword

Andrew Lowenthal / June 8, 2023 / Censorship, Law / 19 minute read

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Why would such a group all gather specifically around the question of “disinformation”? Is disinformation truly at such a level that it requires bringing together the world’s most popular author with military and intelligence leaders, the world’s biggest PR company, journalists, billionaires, Big Tech and more? Or is this work to build the case that there is a disinformation crisis, to then justify the creation of a massive infrastructure for censorship? A glimpse of the agenda offers clues.

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How the Department of Treasury Got Involved in Censorship

Aaron Kheriaty / June 7, 2023 / Censorship, Law / 4 minute read

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The Department of Treasury also coordinated with CISA to censor information that undermines “public confidence” in “financial services” and “financial systems”. Consider: if you raised questions about our banking system or the behavior of the Federal Reserve on Twitter or Facebook, the government was attempting to censor this information. This is a truly Orwellian monster operating under the flimsy excuse of protecting the “national security” and the “safety” of Americans. If you aren’t sufficiently alarmed yet, you should be.

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Nothing Like This Ever Happened Before

Yuri Biondi / June 7, 2023 / Law, Policy / 3 minute read

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A leader or an expert who claims he can fix everything, if only we do exactly as he says, can prove an irresistible force. We do not need to confront a bayonet, we need only a nudge, before we willingly abandon the nicety of requiring laws to be adopted by our legislative representatives and accept rule by decree. Along the way, we will accede to the loss of many cherished civil liberties—the right to worship freely, to debate public policy without censorship, to gather with friends and family, or simply to leave our homes.

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