The Self-Hating Age: How Oikophobia is Dissolving the West
11 September 2024
by A. Gibson
News Round-Up
11 September 2024
JK Rowling and Elon Musk have been named in a cyberbullying complaint made by Imane Khelif, the genetic male who won a gold medal at the Olympics after beating a series of women.
If Keir Starmer wants anyone who 'stirred up violence' on social media to be prosecuted, shouldn't he be urging the authorities to jail Wes Streeting, who tweeted in 2009 that he wanted to shove Jan Moir under a train?
Politics professor James Alexander says there shouldn't be anything controversial about accusing Keir Starmer of hypocrisy – all politicians are hypocrites. Indeed, it would be impossible for them to be otherwise.
Prof Norman Fenton and Dr Scott McLachlan were edited out of Channel 5's Lucy Letby documentary on Sunday night. Their crime? Expressing forbidden views online. It shows how pernicious cancel culture has become, says Dr Fenton.
Is Elon Musk a hypocrite for publicly challenging the EU’s new online censorship regime while quietly removing tweets that fall foul of the EU’s Digital Services Act? No, says Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
Elon Musk has said "freedom of speech is worth fighting for" after Australia's cyber safety regulator dropped its federal court case over X Corp's refusal to globally block footage it deemed harmful.
Elon Musk's endorsement of mRNA technology leaves many of his fans perplexed. What they don't appear to realise is Musk is part of the mRNA project and has a direct commercial stake in it.
Contrary to the X memes, the claim that the WHO is largely funded by private sources is not only false but wildly misleading, says Robert Kogon. In fact, it is around 90% funded by states.
Can Australia’s eSafety Commissioner block content globally on demand? Not today, ruled the Australian Federal Court, in a win for Elon Musk. But the war is far from over.
Should governments be able to censor online content for the entire world? That's what Australia is claiming the right to do. But do they really think China and Russia should be able to choose what the world sees?
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