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10 January 2025
Mark Zuckerberg is renouncing the regime, and righting the ship. Or so he says. The Meta magnate wants his platforms to re-acquaint themselves with a passion for promoting freedom of speech. Zuckerberg promises to end Meta’s “fact”-checking war on free speech.
9 January 2025
Mark Zuckerberg concedes that Meta has made serious mistakes and suppressed content, and has announced he will dump fact-checkers. Here are five astonishing admissions in this massive win for free speech.
8 January 2025
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (APHRA) is back to attacking Dr William Bay. Renewing their investigation of Bay, APHRA’s apparent bureaucratic bullies are, once again, pursuing complaints against his social media posts.
11 December 2024
It is extremely distressing that the Queensland Parliament yesterday passed a motion from Premier David Crisafulli which bans discussion of abortion in Parliament for the next four years.
27 November 2024
A motion by Greens Senator Larissa Waters to remove the Children Born Alive Bill from the Senate notice paper was narrowly defeated 30–28 yesterday. The result means the bill remains alive in the Senate.
25 November 2024
The Federal Labor Government has officially withdrawn its Misinformation Bill in a massive victory for free speech. The bill's defeat represents the power of ordinary people to make a very real difference.
4 October 2024
Alliance Defending Freedom launched an open letter condemning Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes’ illegal attacks on X. Requesting Brazil’s far-left government repeal its lockout of the social media company, the letter called for the restoration of “the free flow of information.”
23 September 2024
If the federal senate of our nation cannot model respectful debate and the free exchange of ideas, even those it strongly disagrees with, then the very nature of our democracy is not only "harmed", but irreparably undermined.
16 September 2024
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland tabled a new version of the bill which she said is intended to “carefully balance the public interest in combatting seriously harmful misinformation and disinformation with the freedom of expression that is so fundamental to our democracy.”
4 September 2024
Brazil’s Alexandre de Moraes’ overreach has gone nuclear. The far-left judicial El Jefe is freezing Starlink’s finances, preventing the Elon Musk-owned company from doing further business in the country.
11 March 2024
The United States Supreme Court is set to hear two huge cases on Big Tech censorship that will have a global impact.
24 November 2023
Louise Elliot’s uphill battle against LGBT lawfare puts all Australians on notice. We either fund the fight for fundamental God-given freedoms, or lose them forever. The Hobart City Councillor is one of nine Australian women who have been punished after speaking truth to trans-falsehoods.
22 August 2023
A win for Lyle Shelton is a win for all freedom-loving Australians. But the battle still rages for free speech.
30 June 2023
Some of Australia’s best emerging female leaders gathered in New South Wales on Thursday to formally protest the trans takeover of women’s spaces. The high-calibre demonstration of solidarity brought together nine diverse biological women, each of whom has taken up the battle for free speech [...]
5 May 2023
Elon Musk has further distanced himself from the Far-Left, telling "Real Time with Bill Maher", freedom of speech must be protected. During the 20-minute interview Musk discussed his love of comedy, his non-stop working day, and his foray into the world of political activism. Maher [...]
11 January 2023
These days, conspiracy theories abound, and it is hard to know what is real and what is not. Fake news combines with the deceitful narratives of big government, Big Tech and corrupt godless media to create a cesspool of lies and false narratives. Isaiah, the [...]
9 December 2022
Elon Musk’s actions since his takeover of Twitter appear to back up his pro-free-speech rhetoric. Moreover, his release of the “Twitter files” has exposed a culture of censorship and partisanship within Twitter’s management. Back in April, when Elon Musk first purchased Twitter for $61.4 billion [...]
7 November 2022
Free speech is the lifeblood of a healthy society. But there are some legitimate constraints on free speech, in my view. 1) Defamation: the injury that can be done to individuals as a consequence of making false accusations in a digital age are so severe [...]
26 April 2022
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has struck a deal to buy Twitter for $61.4 billion dollars in what could be a positive development for free speech on social media. This morning, the social media world awoke to the news that Elon Musk, a tech [...]
9 December 2021
Twitter once called itself "the free speech wing of the free speech party". In recent years it has abandoned this mission, interfering in the U.S. election and banning a sitting President from its platform. Journalist Matt Taibbi has written a brilliant analysis on what Jack [...]
29 January 2021
Tech giant Twitter knowingly allowed the distribution of images of the sexual exploitation of a minor, a lawsuit filed in federal district court last week alleges. “Where were Twitter’s much-vaunted ‘community standards,’ in this case?” asked Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., founder and president of [...]
15 October 2020
by Peter Downie, FamilyVoice Australia. Last month, Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Sarah Bolt ordered Liberal Senator Claire Chandler to attend a “conciliation conference” with a person who claimed to be offended and insulted by a newspaper column she wrote in July. The senator had pointed out [...]
18 November 2019
Ruth Institute President Dr Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD condemned YouTube’s decision to ban a Daily Signal/Heritage Foundation video with Dr Michelle Cretella, MD over her comment on transgenderism. “The Sexual Revolutionaries running YouTube are cowards. They cannot refute Dr Cretella and the Heritage Foundation. They [...]
9 August 2019
Labor Senator Kristina Keneally has made headlines recently with her opposition to the Australian CPAC conference, to be held in Sydney this weekend. Firstly, she campaigned for one of the conference speakers, Raheem Kassan, to be refused entry to Australia. In an interview today, she [...]
19 June 2019
Editor’s Note: Jennifer Oriel’s article “Campus bureaucrats prove timid friends of free speech” is a brilliant exposé of the double standards concerning the exercise of free speech in Australian Universities. Free Speech at Australian Universities is key to the protection of free speech everywhere. Jennifer [...]
13 September 2024
Today is the darkest day for Freedom of Speech in Australian history. The Labor Party has introduced its revised misinformation legislation to Parliament.
4 August 2022
Medical practitioners and healthcare workers are under pressure to conform to the government narrative on public health, especially regarding COVID-19 vaccination. Their freedom of conscience and freedom of speech have been heavily compromised, affecting standards of care for patients. No one wants to believe that [...]
20 April 2022
Is cancel culture under threat? Billionaire Elon Musk and the New York Times have both spoken out on the necessity of free speech in a democracy. Unless you live under a rock, you must have heard the big news: Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, [...]
11 July 2019
Freedom of speech, belief and association of freedoms for which our forebears sacrificed. They understood the importance of nurturing these freedoms. These freedoms have allowed us to explore, develop and nuance ideas, philosophical, political, scientific and religious, amongst others. Today, our society is in grave [...]
16 May 2019
Those who refuse to engage in civil discourse have perfected the art of name-calling and labelling to discredit their political opponents before a view can even be expressed. So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, [...]
17 January 2025
On Wednesday night, 46th US President Joe Biden gave his final address from the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, concluding a five-decade career in politics.
30 December 2024
Thinking you are a good person so you have nothing to fear about our growing surveillance state is both naive and reckless. In truth, we are all at risk.
6 November 2024
Without international pressure, 22-year-old Christian Pakistani man Ehsan Shan will likely be executed to death. Here's how you can help repeal this disgraceful decision.
25 October 2024
Religious freedom, the ability to worship and evangelise, has been increasingly curtailed in the name of “anti-discrimination” and “inclusion”. Now, with its proposed misinformation laws, the federal government has Australians of faith in its sights in the name of “truth”.
15 October 2024
All over the Western world, especially since the horrific October 7 attack, we have seen universities pushing radical Islamist and pro-Hamas hate speech. Radicals have set up tent cities and occupied classrooms as they shout ugly anti-Israel chants.
Up to 5 Years in Prison for Hate Speech Under Victorian Government’s Proposed Anti-Vilification Laws
11 October 2024
The new laws would lower the legal threshold for prosecuting people for vilification and would add gender identity, sex, sex characteristics, sexual orientation and disability to the list of protected attributes alongside race and religion, which are already protected.
27 September 2024
Argentinian President Javier Milei’s first speech before the General Assembly held little back. The chainsaw-wielding Libertarian took a proverbial axe to the ideological weeds choking the life out of the UN’s original mandate.
26 September 2024
Most of us know there is a draft bill before the Parliament with a verbose title: Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill. Its name alone should tell us something smells. The answer to bad speech is MORE speech, not less.
19 September 2024
Speaking about the Sex Discrimination Amendment (Acknowledging Biological Reality) Bill 2024, Senator Chandler said the removal of "woman" from the 2013 act wasn’t an oversight: “The Labor Party deliberately turned the act designed to protect women into one designed to punish women.”
29 August 2024
The Country Liberal Party has stormed to victory in the NT election. Hidden from the major headlines – but more important – is the story of prayer behind it.