Welcome to the UK where it’s now official government policy that you CAN’T publish “misinformation”, but The Guardian, the BBC, Disney and Netflix CAN. Yes, it’s true – the recently signed “Online Safety Act” brands the publication of “false information” a criminal offense punishable by up to a year in prison… …unless you’re an MSM …
Joey Barton doesn't always choose the most delicate way of making his points, but his message is clear: he thinks 'diversity' box-ticking is destroying sport. Is this why MPs think he is dangerous and want to censor him?
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Spiked's Andrew Tettenborn raises concerns about Ofcom's overreach in regulating media content, and why powers given to it by the Online Safety Bill should worry us all.
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Kit Knightly This Russell Brand story gets stranger and stranger by the day. Last night it was revealed the a senior MP had written letters to multiple social media companies requesting information on Russell Brand’s income and covertly pressuring them into either demonetizing or removing his accounts. [NOTE: Before we continue you may want to …
Kit Knightly Buried behind the Brand-related headlines yesterday, the British House of Lords voted to pass the controversial “Online Safety Bill” into law. All that’s needed now is Royal assent, which Charles will obviously provide. The bill’s (very catchy) long-form title is… A Bill to make provision for and in connection with the regulation by …
A climate consultant has called for purveyors of ‘climate disinformation’ to be sent to prison. But what infallible authority could the courts rely on to determine whether a climate-related claim is true or false?
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Another day, another quick take. This one is about “Mizzy”. For anyone out of the loop, “Mizzy” is UK-based Tik-Toker who has enjoyed a somewhat meteoric rise to fame. Too meteoric to be natural, you might say. I’ll lay it all out for you, and you can decide for yourself how organic this sudden celebrity …
Chris Tame was Britain’s leading Libertarian until his premature death in 2006. One of his favourite sayings – more or less verbatim – was that when they talk about protecting children, what they really mean is taking away your rights. Nothing has changed for the better in the seventeen years since his passing, if anything, […]
Privacy – one of the most basic rights in any free society – is under threat from the Online Safety Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament. The central issue is the undermining of encryption.
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Steven Edgington writes in the Telegraph about the moral panic over 'disinformation' and the clueless Conservatives handing their ideological enemies a nuclear weapon in the form of the Online Censor Conservatives Bill.
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