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Online Censorship: Canada Continues Crackdown
Kit Knightly On Friday the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission published new guidelines requiring media outlets to register with...
Figuring Out Their Angle
Todd Hayen A federal law was recently passed in Canada called the Online News Act, or Bill C-18. Basically,...
Where Have All the Lanternflies Gone?
Michael Lesher Remember the spotted lanternfly? Barely a year ago, this colorful winged insect was supposed to be a...
Inside Russia’s “digital transformation”
Riley Waggaman Things are getting very digital in Russia. For your reading convenience I have decided to compile important updates about...
A Nation of Snitches: DHS Is Grooming Americans to Report on Each Other
John Whitehead “There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had...
British MPs are trying to “cancel” Russell Brand…but why?
Kit Knightly This Russell Brand story gets stranger and stranger by the day. Last night it was revealed the...
UK quietly passes “Online Safety Bill” into law
Kit Knightly Buried behind the Brand-related headlines yesterday, the British House of Lords voted to pass the controversial “Online...
How Not to Launch a Global Anti-Censorship Movement
CJ Hopkins So, I’ve been excommunicated from Michael Shellenberger’s global anti-censorship movement. It’s my own fault. I was sowing...
Curiosity Killed the Cat; Satisfaction Brought it Back
Todd Hayen It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and...
Watermelon Watershed
Sylvia Shawcross So I’m looking at the watermelon and thinking about the world we live in. It’s one of...
The Criminalization of Dissent (continued)
CJ Hopkins So, the Berlin State Prosecutor has launched another criminal investigation of me. Apparently, I’m being charged with...
How the Government Weaponizes Surveillance to Silence Its Critics
John & Nisha Whitehead “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it...
Numbed by Numbers on the Way to the Digital Palace
Edward Curtin “But yet mathematical certainty is after all, something insufferable. Twice two makes four seems to me simply...
The Metaphysical as a Rational Option
Todd Hayen One thing I believe my bent toward metaphysics has prepared me for is when something that falls...
Peacocks Paradise
Sylvia Shawcross Come with me now down this path. It is a path soft with the fallen frailties of...
The Road to Totalitarianism – Part 3
CJ Hopkins So, the Germans are putting me on trial for my thoughtcrimes, and, apparently, I’ve already been found...
German Courts Are Going FULL Dystopia
It’s been an astonishing couple of days for German judges. Well, “astonishing” if you’ve been living in a cave...
From Press Room Raids to Indictments, Anything Goes When the Government Piles On
John Whitehead “When players are piled on top of each other after a mad scramble for a loose ball,...
Inside YouTube’s new “Medical Misinformation Policy”
Kit Knightly A few days ago YouTube amended their Covid19 Misinformation policy, changing it so it now applies to...
Indoctrination, Intimidation & Intolerance: What Passes for Education Today
John whitehead “Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking...
