Authoritarianism

Mr. Mike’s Mondo Imbroglio or How Not to Launch a Global Anti-Censorship Movement

So, I’ve been excommunicated from Michael Shellenberger’s global anti-censorship movement. It’s my own fault. I was sowing dissension. I engaged in harmful speech in the group chat. I was making people feel uncomfortable. I was not playing ball. I was not with the program. The program, as you may recall, was launched in Westminster, London, […]

The Criminalization of Dissent (continued)

So, the Berlin State Prosecutor has launched another criminal investigation of me. Apparently, I’m being charged with reporting on the original investigation of me that the Berlin State Prosecutor launched in June. What happened is, the prosecutor visited my blog and read a column I published in July, The Criminalization of Dissent (Revisited), which included […]

The Next Crisis Is Anyone’s Guess, But the Government Is Ready to Lockdown the Nation

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. — H.L. Mencken, In Defence of Women, 1918 First came 9/11, which the government used to transform itself into a police state. Then the COVID-19 […]

Appeal for Legal Funds as Landmark Case to Defend Free Speech Heads to Court

Former Green Party Deputy Leader Shahrar Ali is bringing a case against the party after being sacked for expressing his gender critical beliefs, but he needs your help to pay his legal expenses.
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Ageism, the Latest Thought Crime in the SNP’s Finger-Wagging, Moralistic Scotland

Fraser Hudghton of the Free Speech Union challenges Scotland's Hate Crime Act following news that from next year, 'hate crime' will encompass age-related threats or abusive language.
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Mental Health Round-Ups: The Next Phase of the Government’s War on Thought Crimes

Get ready for the next phase of the government’s war on thought crimes: mental health round-ups and involuntary detentions. Under the guise of public health and safety, the government could use mental health care as a pretext for targeting and locking up dissidents, activists and anyone unfortunate enough to be placed on a government watch […]

Thirteen Commandments of Propaganda

Orientation Definition of propaganda and the purpose of this article Are the chances better that you’d read this article if I called it The Ten Commandments of Propaganda? The author of the book The Ten Commandments of Propaganda thinks so because you have deep collective associations with the Ten Commandments because of the centuries of […]
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