The EU has quietly passed a law that directly subordinates online platforms like Twitter to the Commission’s agenda of "combatting COVID-19 disinformation" and requires them to implement it on pain of ruinous fines.
Think about people who've been tellers of truth. Very often, they were retired. They wrote for an independent website or Substack. They don’t have bosses or career paths. It’s only these people who will say what’s true.
The problem with the Online Safety Bill is that it doesn’t just aim to protect children but grown-ups as well. Adults should be able to judge for themselves just how dangerous it is to watch videos by Russell Brand.
The Online Safety Bill, with its requirement to censor 'legal but harmful' content, would only reinforce the growing tendency of news and social media to repeat Government-approved propaganda.
A dangerous new law in Australia, if passed, will ban medically trained doctors from expressing any opinion that goes against what Government health bureaucrats determine to be in the 'best interests' of the public.
Of course there will be a new great depression, writes Andrew Montford. Twenty years of vandalism of the energy system was only ever going to have one result, and will not be fixed in a hurry.
People who received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine were 44% more likely to be infected, a study from Oxford University on English data for 2021 has found, contradicting the basis of global vaccine policy.
Are lockdown fanatics, who seem unfussed about stunting children's lives with school closures, masks, distancing and endless testing, actually compensating for a lack of real meaning in their lives, asks Fraser Krats.
David Attenborough's latest claim is that climate change is making avalanches "more unpredictable". In fact, though, their number has dropped dramatically in recent years.
China’s Zero Covid policy remains very much in place while others, notably New Zealand’s, have been suddenly and embarrassingly abandoned. But will that change after the CCP National Congress in October?
