Under Scotland's Hate Crime and Public Order Act, citizens may be prosecuted for speech in the privacy of their own home - from David Thunder's Freedom Blog Scotland's Hate Crime and Public Order Act 2021 came into effect on April 1st 2024. Given how egregiously it violates the

Apparently TikTok banned this ad for XX-XY Athletics. Opposing the inclusion of biological males in womens’ sports is so “offensive” to Tiktok that it can get your content censored & put your account in jeopardy. No joke.

Do we want to live in a society in which a special class of people gets to pre-emptively erase and censor speech they dislike or happen to find offensive? That’s the sort of society the UK and Irish governments are enthusiastically promoting.

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE But who will exercise this office of eternal vigilance? Ordinary citizens, to be sure. But independent media play a critical role. We depend on your support to continue to uncover inconvenient truths and to play our role effectively.

“The idea that I am criminally responsible for the feelings that may arise in the hearts of those who listen to my speech is patently absurd.”

THE SEEDS OF AUTHORITARIANISM WERE ALREADY IN PLACE - THE PANDEMIC WAS JUST A USEFUL PRETEXT The turn to invasive and authoritarian methods of governance in 2020-22 (lockdowns, coercive vaccination, suppression of speech, religious worship, and movement, to mention a few) was

Twelve Keys to a Meaningful, Flourishing Life - from my Freedom Blog Sometimes it’s worth taking a step back, and reviewing the keys to a flourishing, balanced and rounded existence. Many of these keys are common sense, at least for those who have chalked up a bit of life

13 RULES OF THUMB FOR MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE, WHATEVER HAND YOU'RE DEALT - THREAD 🧵 Life is partly stuff you inherit - this or that family, these educational opportunities, etc; and partly your own choices & attitudes. So how can we make the most of the hand we're dealt?

8/ It's well and good to dream about the future, but don't have contempt for the life you are actually living today, and the people you have by your side right now. Be awake to the values and opportunities, beauty and goodness, that are already right in front of you.

Excellent letter from the Republican House Judiciary Committee to EU Commissioner Thierry Breton raising important concerns about the potential impact of EU’s Digital Services Act on free speech in the USA. Well worth the read.

Why would a government in a country whose housing and public services are already unable to serve the native population, essentially appropriate a segment of its tourism sector to house asylum applicants, thus simultaneously attacking its tourism sector and stoking resentment

Central banks may well promise to put X dollars/euros in your digital “wallet” for beginning to use central bank digital currency. How much do you think most citizens would need to be offered to start using CBDCs?

“We’ve lost the capacity to assess risk in a balanced and healthy way.”

Free speech under assault in Queensland, Australia: you can now face up to 3 years in prison for social media posts that may be found offensive by a “minority.” Here is the full text of the newly passed law: legislation.qld.gov.au/view/pdf/bill.…

This nicely sums up my assessment of the unmitigated failure of the public health systems of the USA and much of the West in 2020-23.

DEMANDING EXPERT CREDENTIALS TO ADDRESS COMPLEX POLICY PROBLEMS IS NAIVE AND DISINGENUOUS One of the most ignorant objections I have come across to an argument concerning public health, climate policy, or anything else, for that matter, is that there is one field of "expert

International pressure is mounting on Brazil. Yesterday, the White House condemned the country’s X ban. This follows over 100 world-leading free speech advocates condemning the ban in an open letter organised by ADFI. ADFI’s Lorcan Price on GB News ⬇️

Below, a simple deconstruction of the silly claim that concern over transgender politics and free speech in Ireland is an American "importation."