News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
It's increasingly common for parents to track their teenage children using a mobile phone app. Joanna Gray wonders if she missed the bit where we decided this was okay. Whatever happened to learning independence?
Next month the 15-Minute-City guru himself is coming to Oxford to give a talk. Urban planner Carlos Moreno is the thinker behind the authoritarian anti-car idea enthusiastically embraced by the UN and other alarmists.
With the ever-growing presence of Government surveillance to keep us 'safe' and in line, is a descent into a Chinese-style police state now inevitable, asks Nick Rendell.
The charging of six former police officers for sending offensive messages in a private WhatsApp group is a worrying sign of state censorship and mass surveillance, warns Freddie Attenborough in the Critic.
Introducing iVerify, the United Nation’s new AI-powered fact-checking tool, designed to combat the spread of “disinformation, misinformation and hate speech”, i.e., any point of view the global elite disagrees with.
After the shock of 2016, the Surveillance State, birthed following 9/11, gave birth in turn to its natural offspring, the Censorship Leviathan, as elites determined the people could not be trusted with democracy.
Tony Blair has called on the Government to introduce a national digital ID card and, frighteningly, a poll shows that more than half of Brits supported such an invasive and high-risk surveillance project.
The Chinese Communist Party has used sophisticated surveillance technology to crush the anti-Zero Covid protests. The age of Big Brother has arrived.
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