Authoritarianism

Digital Kill Switches: How Tyrannical Governments Stifle Political Dissent

What’s to stop the U.S. government from throwing the kill switch and shutting down phone and internet communications in a time of so-called crisis? After all, it’s happening all over the world. Communications kill switches have become tyrannical tools of domination and oppression to stifle political dissent, shut down resistance, forestall election losses, reinforce military […]

Jimmy Lai’s Trial Marks the Death of Freedom in Hong Kong

Jimmy Lai, the 76-year-old British and Hong Kong citizen and founder of the Daily Apple, is on trial for "colluding with foreign forces", in a show of power from Beijing that marks the death of freedom in the territory.
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Should We Be Worried That Over a Third of Young People Want to Live Under a Dictatorship?

Over a third of young people want to live under a leader who ignores elections and parliaments, according to a recent poll. What's driving this love of authoritarianism and should we be worried?
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With the Self-Hating West Stuck in a Net Zero Doom Loop, Is the Ascendancy of the Autocracies Now Unstoppable?

The rise of the American-led West was supposed to be the 'end of history' as liberal democracy triumphed. But with the self-hating West stuck in a Net Zero doom loop, is the ascendancy of the autocracies now unstoppable?
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Rishi Sunak’s Smoking Ban is ‘Straight Out of Jacinda Ardern’s Health Authoritarian Playbook’

Why is a Conservative Prime Minister following the lead of health authoritarian Jacinda Ardern in introducing a progressive smoking ban that will see everyone born after 2009 banned from buying cigarettes?
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Authoritarian Control Freaks Want to Micromanage Our Lives

Man is born free but everywhere is in chains. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract Authoritarian control freaks out to micromanage our lives have become the new normal or, to be more accurate, the new abnormal when it comes to how the government relates to the citizenry. This overbearing despotism, which pre-dates the COVID-19 hysteria, […]