Recently here on SDA, an interview with Brendan O’Neill was published. About halfway through O’Neill touched upon the landmark US Supreme Court case of Marsh v. Alabama.
Expect this case to come up again in 2019 when Facebook, Google, and Twitter continue to silence the voices of conservatives. More on the comparison can be found here.
It’s the “8 Mile Rule”.
Bannon wins the Munk Debate, swinging the audience from 28% to 57% in favour of the resolution: “be it resolved the future of western politics is populist not liberal”
Updated with video replay, debate begins about the 2:25 mark if you want to skip past the intro.
Meanwhile, outside the auditorium the tolerant left injured a police officer and got a bunch of themselves arrested.
Steve Paikin smells conspiracy.
Because it’s Canada: A debate between the right and the wrong stirs speech nazis.
Juxtapose.
@getongab: @joyent, Gab’s new hosting provider, has just pulled our hosting service. They have given us until 9am on Monday to find a solution. Gab will likely be down for weeks because of this. Working on solutions. We will never give up on defending free speech for all people.
Twitter: 179 Death Threats Against President Trump Are Live On Twitter… Real Time Updated List
An artist has created a full-size replica of the Greek Parthenon using 100,000 copies of banned books.
Modern Day Leftists haven’t burned books … yet but they have absolutely gone out of their way to try to silence people, organizations, and websites. It would be interesting to compile a list of all that they’ve tried to silence so far. Let’s get that list started:
Slaves of the State and of political correctness;
Today, the oppression of political correctness, decided by the global power agenda of noisy, powerful and organized minorities, is trying to stifle the once sacred freedoms of conscience, opinion and expression in an era in which free and truthful journalism is all but gone and in which social networks, the most dangerous societal control weapon ever invented, impose their slogans and release their hordes to lynch the dissident. New totalitarian ideologies want to dominate as new state religions of mandatory belief. Such is the case of the absurd and manifestly unscientific gender ideology (that would just be another stupid fad were it not for its goal of deceiving the youngest in order to “enslave their soul”), or of the ideology of the also unscientific and superstitious climate catastrophism. Not content with controlling our actions and appropriating our money through abusive taxation, the tyrants of today’s democracies seek to control what we believe and what we feel (and particularly, what we fear!).
h/t Brad F.
In 2018 Europe, you can’t say that Mohammed was a pedophile or the law will come after you. Punishing you for insulting a man who’s been dead for 1,400 years isn’t a violation of your human rights, because you’ve offended a protected class. You’ve pissed off the wrong people, and now you’ll pay.
David Tabachnick is a professor of political science in North Bay, Ontario. He also seems to be obsessed with Lindsay Shepherd:
This professor has been writing these kind of rubbish comments about me for months. Ok David, what am I supposed to do? Not engage in the public sphere anymore, because anything I do will be opposed by other people? I should stay home & shut up & not be out in my community? Jesus https://t.co/QhtuD9yhQO
— Lindsay Shepherd (@NewWorldHominin) October 24, 2018
A quick check of his Twitter feed shows he’s very proud of this tweet he has pinned:
— David Tabachnick (@DeTabachnick) August 27, 2018
Sounds like he missed his calling to sit on a Human Rights Commission and decide what the rest of us can say publicly. Read through his Twitter feed and you’ll quickly fall down a rabbit hole we’ve seen way too much of from Leftist apparatchiks. If you’re up for it, here’s a recent article he penned. Remember folks, your hard-earned tax dollars are going to pay the salaries of “minds” like his.
Into a hundred thousand million pieces.
What ordinary Americans long suspected, The Good Censor has proven beyond doubt. According to Google’s own analysis, tech companies have performed perhaps the greatest bait-and-switch in American history, promising their users free speech while they were taking over the market, only to go back on their word once they came to “control the majority of online conversations.”
h/t antelope
In Grudging Praise of White Racists. (Language advisory)
In a decision that will undoubtedly outrage conservatives who have sought to highlight the horrors of terrorist groups like ISIS, a French court has ruled that Marine Le Pen, the leader of the party formerly known as the National Front (now National Rally) and runner-up in last year’s French presidential vote, must undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine whether “she is capable of understanding remarks and answering questions.”
In other words, the court is treating Le Pen as if being conservative is a mental illness.
The ruling follows formal charges that were brought against Le Pen in March after she tweeted gruesome photos of the bodies of innocent people subjected to horrific deaths at the hands of ISIS. The decision horrified conservatives who accused the French government of attempting to criminalize conservative political speech, as it was only the latest example of a disturbing trend in the European Union, per the Local.
Le Pen tweeted her anger at the decision, saying the court’s ruling felt like a “hallucination.”
h/t EMS
Steven Crowder: Why Norm Macdonald is THE MOST IMPORTANT Comedian Alive!!
Thread’s open for your tips.
Jordan Peterson has drawn attention to a recent blog post that chastises the Ontario provincial government for insisting on free speech on university campuses.
Would SDA readers please try to translate the author’s gibberish into some semblance of a logical argument? I’ve read the her post twice but truly don’t understand what her actual objection is.
h/t Colonialista
Twitter shares down as much as 6% during CEO Jack Dorsey’s Senate testimony