Wikipedia had to censor its encyclopedia to make it more free.
The best thing about this is how benevolent it all is. You feel like a two year old child listening to mother about why not to eat candy because it will rot your teeth. And how they’ll take away your cap gun and spaceman helmet so that you won’t get white male ideas.
The Part I Like Best
About “safe supply” programs is how it forced organized crime out of the drug trafficking business and gets drugs off the streets.
World War II – Why Did We Bother?
Police in Brussels have stormed a right-wing conference attended by Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman after orders for the event to be shut down.
Local authorities ordered the controversial National Conservatism (NatCon) Conference to be closed to “guarantee public safety”.
Ms Braverman, the former home secretary, and Mr Farage, the former Ukip leader, were among the political names advertised to speak at the event on Tuesday alongside right-wing Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orban. […]
Emir Kir, [the son of Turkish immigrants] mayor of the area where the conference was held, said: “I issued an order from the mayor to ban the ‘National Conservatism Conference’ event to guarantee public safety.
Officers arrived after the event began at the Claridge venue in central Brussels to tell organisers the event would be shut down. According to a report on social media, police arrived while Mr Farage was addressing the event, giving attendees 15 minutes to leave the venue. However, officers did not appear to force the event to shut down and speeches continued.
Police have now said they will not let anyone else into the venue and people can leave and not re-enter.
Byline Jabed Ahmed.
You Are What You Vote
How on earth could we have seen St. Louis’ collapse coming?
Let That Sink In
… and the horse you rode in on, Charlie!
The member of parliament who on Feb. 5 introduced one of the most draconian laws against free speech (and that’s saying something in recent years) has decided not to run again in the next election. NDP MP Charlie Angus is calling it quits at the end of this term, after 20 years.
He’s the guy who wanted to ban promotion of fossil fuels, having introduced a private members bill which would have meant every ad on Pipeline Online, for instance, could incur up to a half million dollar fine.
An Interview With Mark Steyn
They’re moving to control every aspect of your life.
Coming soon…
…show trial, the musical.
Telegraph- JK Rowling’s ‘come and get me’ retort to Hate Crime Act is direct challenge to Yousaf
Faced with the possibility of prosecution under an Act that carries a maximum seven-year jail sentence, the best-selling author didn’t act cautiously. Instead, she sailed straight into a calculated attack against Humza Yousaf’s determination to bring in a raft of new offences which threaten to end freedom of expression over the “trans” issue but which fail to protect women
The New Police State
Not only can the Scottish police now charge you with “hate speech” on a wide variety of topics, but they can do so based on criteria that drops any and all pretense of objectivity. It seems that for Scots the best way to avoid prison would be to tape their mouths shut and abandon social media.
Asked whether “misgendering” someone or making a comment about their religion would be a crime the minister replied: “This will be up to Police Scotland. I wouldn’t say misgendering if you say something on social media for example it would be up to Police Scotland to determine.”
Rest assured, however, the police will move heaven and earth to investigate such “high level” crimes:
Just last month the national force said it was no longer able to investigate every “low level” crime, including some cases of theft and criminal damage.
It has, however, pledged to investigate every hate crime complaint it receives.
Modern Medicine?
In this intriguing interview, Dr. John Campbell interviews Australian immunologist Dr. Robert Clancy about another drug that was slammed as ineffective and dangerous when used for the treatment of Covid: hydroxychloroquine. As with so many other pandemic measures, it seems to have fallen prey to the politicization of medicine.
As Dr. Clancy says, “I could not understand why there was a reaction against using a drug outside of its normal indications because we never seen Covid before at a time when people in nursing homes were dying [at] five, six, seven percent mortality rate and here we had a drug it couldn’t do any harm.”
“…it fitted the the politics at the time which was we have no treatment, stay at home until
Let That Sink In
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed suit on Monday against Media Matters for America for refusal to cooperate with a Missouri State investigation.
This comes after AG Andrew Bailey sued Media Matters in December for violating state consumer protection laws and defrauding Missourians.
AG Andrew Bailey accused Media Matters of using fraud to solicit donations from Missourians in order to bully advertisers.
Attorney General Andrew Bailey made this explosive accusation, “We have reason to believe Media Matters used fraud to solicit donations from Missourians in order to bully advertisers into pulling out of X, the last platform dedicated to free speech in America.”
The Missouri Attorney General did not hold back in his attacks on Media Matters alleging the enemies of free speech, like Media Matters for America, are attempting to kill Twitter-X because they cannot control it now that Elon Musk took over. Bailey added, “I’m fighting to ensure progressive tyrants masquerading as news outlets cannot manipulate the marketplace in order to wipe out free speech.”
The Censorship-Industrial Complex
If the woke regime felt that its reign was under threat, and believed itself justified (if not morally obligated) to defend itself, what wouldn’t it do to retain power?
It might seek to break, bankrupt, and jail its political opponents and those who would dare defend them via lawfare; obstruct justice for political “made men;” and delegitimize and destroy any institution that would dare stand in its way. That effort is already afoot.
Another line of attack might be to weaponize every public and private power center against those who would back its political opponents — demoralizing if not terrorizing the electorate into submission, or dividing it so it can more easily be conquered. That effort too has been humming along.
Still another line of attack might be to wage information warfare against the public in a bid to prevent it from fully understanding the nature and extent of, let alone discussing, the ruling regime’s depredations. It would do so not only by propagandizing via de facto regime media but by crippling alternative sources and prohibiting citizens from freely sharing news and views anathema to the ruling regime.
Grab a coffee.
How “Free Speech” Turned Into a “Far Right” Slogan
Let Us Pay Homage To The Las Vegas Nostradamus
“I’ve just flown in from California, where they’ve made homosexuality legal. I thought I’d get out before they make it compulsory.”
While homosexual is now a term you must avoid using, GLAAD wants you to be familiar with a whole bunch of made-up terms, like allosexual, gynesexual, and pansexual. I don’t know what any of those mean. I don’t care and won’t even bother sharing their definitions with you because I most certainly won’t legitimize this nonsense by learning them.
There’s also a term in the glossary called Same-Gender Loving.
I won’t bother with that one, either.
Let That Sink In
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Related: Why the TikTok ban is so dangerous.
The Fact Check Files
Facebook fact checking program has been compromised by activists;
The fact-checking director who oversees Mark Zuckerberg’s misinformation program on Facebook has been caught in secret emails colluding with a now disgraced operation which suppressed journalism during Australia’s Voice referendum.
The fact-checking director who oversees Mark Zuckerberg’s misinformation program on Facebook has been caught in secret emails colluding with a now disgraced operation which suppressed journalism during Australia’s Voice referendum.
International Fact Checking Network Director Angie Holan runs the body which certifies Facebook fact checkers and has the power to investigate allegations of bias and strip fact checkers of certification in the event rules are broken.
Meta publicly told Australians Ms Holan’s organisation would launch a “thorough investigation” into RMIT fact checkers but secret emails obtained by Sky News show that did not happen.
Zuckerberg has promised that his platforms are policed by “independent, IFCN-certified fact-checkers” but an analysis of dozens of internal emails obtained by Sky News show the system has been compromised.
RMIT FactLab was suspended from fact checking on Facebook after a Sky News Australia investigation in August found the operation was filled with partisan activists who used their powers to censor journalism on Facebook they disagreed with, particularly in relation to the Voice referendum.
The investigation, dubbed The Fact Check Files, revealed the university had breached the IFCN’s rules of impartiality several times, including when its fact checking director Russell Skelton was campaigning for a change to Australia’s constitution during a contentious referendum debate.
Video at the link.
Free Robert Pickton!
Robert Pickton is eligible for day-parole after killing and feeding to his pigs countless prostitutes and other victims after less than 20 years in prison.
Meanwhile you will get 25 according to this government for making mouth noises some bureaucrat finds offensive.
Dan Knight: … just when you thought it couldn’t get any more Orwellian, enter the pièce de résistance: the Digital Safety Commission of Canada.
Meet Australia’s Disinformation Czar
Julie Inman Grant, a former Twitter employee, is an unelected bureaucrat and has decided that she has the authority to censor the free speech of Australians. Interesting aside: She is American.
Free John Robertson!
John Robertson is a retiree who volunteered for a position on the municipal council of Murray Harbour, P.E.I. (pop. 282) in 2022 because he wanted to give back to his rural community.
Robertson felt dismayed about what he views as lies perpetuated in the mainstream media related to the discovery of unmarked graves at Indian Residential Schools, which have been labelled “mass graves” by some journalists despite scant evidence for that particular claim. To try to set the record straight, last September Robertson changed the plastic letters on a wooden sign on his private property in Murray Harbour to spell out a provocative message: “TRUTH: MASS GRAVE HOAX. RECONCILIATION: REDEEM SIR JOHN A’S INTEGRITY.”
On October 4, 2023 Robertson was informed of an official complaint by three fellow councillors under the village Code of Conduct. Council then hired a former RCMP officer to investigate the sign. The officer found that Robertson’s sign breached Code provisions against “unethical behaviour,” “inspiring public trust and confidence,” and “discrimination, intimidation, and harassment.”
On November 18, 2023, Murray Harbour council voted to impose a maximum penalty: a $500 fine, six-month suspension, and forced apology. Robertson refused to comply with those sanctions.
On December 20, 2023, Minister Rob Lantz ordered Robertson to comply or resign. Robertson refused.
The Canadian Constitution Foundation is assisting in his case, check it out here.
Pandemic Myths
When I saw this latest interview with Dr. Clare Craig, author of Expired: Covid: The Untold Story, the first thing I thought of was why we never see any Canadian doctors speaking out against the standard narrative regarding Covid. Maybe that’s just another facet of “Canadian exceptionalism”, except that in this case it’s something to be ashamed of.
“…they must not allow themselves to be frightened by stories of a disease X no matter how frightening the stories are because it’s destructive to people’s mental health it’s destructive to their rational thinking and once you lose rational thought we end up in a crazy world again…”