Freedom of Speech
George Orwell, the acclaimed and visionary author famous for such works as 1984, and Animal Farm, died 75 years ago today. To commemorate the death of a man renowned for the importance he placed on preserving free speech, I sat down with Lord Toby Young, the founder of the Free Speech Union, to discuss the state of free speech in the west today, and Orwell’s legacy.
Toby,
Thanks so much for doing this interview. You are the founder and director of the Free Speech Union. You also run the Daily S
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Read More“Sacked for Wrongthink”: New Initiative Launches to Give Voice to the Silenced and Cancelled
[Northumberland, UK, 21st January 2025] – A new initiative, Sacked for Wrongthink, has launched to shed light on a growing crisis in the UK: the cancellation of individuals for expressing opinions or beliefs deemed unacceptable by employers or institutions. This issue has escalated over the past two decades, leaving countless individuals without jobs, careers, or justice.
The initiative aims to highlight the untold stories of those whose livelihoods have been destroyed simply for expressing themselves. While public attention
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Read MoreIn fulfillment of one of his campaign promises, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that seeks to end government-led censorship online.
“Over the last four years, the previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, de-platform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve,” reads the order in seeming reference to statements by tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg who have spoken publicly about being pressured by the Biden administration to censor “true” content that happened to be politically inconvenient to the ruling regime.
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Read MoreIn the final minutes of his administration, former President Joe Biden preemptively pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, in what The New York Times called “an extraordinary effort by an outgoing president to derail political prosecutions by an incoming president.”
The pardon, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2014, addresses “any offenses” Fauci committed during this period, including in his former capacities as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, member of the White House COVID-19 Response Team and chief medical adviser to Biden.
In a response shared via text message with ABC News, President Donald Trump called Biden’s pardons, which also included several members of his family, “disgraceful.”
Attorney Greg Glaser told The Defender that Fauci may also face legal challenges at the state level.
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Read MoreOn February 7, the Ontario Superior Court will sentence Freedom Convoy protestor Pat King after finding him guilty of five charges related to his involvement in the 2022 protests held in the nation’s capital which called for an end to COVID mandates.
In November, King was found guilty of two counts of disobeying a court order, one count of mischief, one count of counselling others to commit mischief, as well as one count of counselling others to obstruct police.
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Read MoreOn Wednesday, the WEF published its annual Global Risks Report with very few changes from last year’s edition.
Similar to last year, Misinformation and disinformation and Societal polarization remain key current risks […] The high rankings of these two risks is not surprising considering the accelerating spread of false or misleading information, which amplifies the other leading risks we face, from State-based armed conflict to Extreme weather events
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Read MoreAn example of this is now coming from the U.K., where Laura Kuenssberg of the public broadcaster BBC sat down with Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Peter Kyle – basically to discuss how the much-criticized, sweeping online censorship law, the Online Safety Act, could be made even worse.
the BBC presenter’s tone suggested that despite its broad and troubling scope, the Online Safety Act is still not “good enough” and needs to be broadened to usher in more censorship and surveillance.
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Read MoreI was evicted by police from Carney’s campaign launch event in Edmonton last Thursday. I stood excluded as other reporters from CBC, Global and CityNews walked past into the conference room. Reporters from True North and Counter Signal were also banned.
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Read MoreNumerous data sources now corroborate that the COVID vaccines shed in a consistent and replicable manner
Story at a Glance:
•After the COVID-19 vaccines hit the market, stories began emerging of unvaccinated individuals becoming ill after being in proximity to recently vaccinated individuals. This confused many, as the mRNA technology in theory should not be able to “shed.”
•After seeing countless patient cases which can only be explained by COVID vaccine shedding, a year ago, I initiated multiple widely seen calls for individuals to share suspected shedding experiences.
•From those 1,500 reports, clear and replicable patterns have emerged which collectively prove “shedding” is a real and predictable phenomenon that can be explained by known mechanisms unique to the mRNA technology.
•Likewise, after being blocked from publication for over a year, recently, a scientific study corroborating the shedding phenomenon was finally published.
•This article will map out everything that is known about shedding (e.g., what are the common symptoms, how does it happen, who does it affect, does it occur through sexual contact, can it cause severe issues like cancer) along with strategies for preventing it.
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Read MoreIn aiding Israel’s mass attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, Britain is implementing an agreement openly signed with Netanyahu’s far-right coalition – which has been almost entirely ignored in the UK national media.
“The bilateral relationship has never been stronger”, began a landmark “Roadmap” signed by Britain and Israel in March last year.
This was part of “a strong and evolving defence relationship” that “enshrines ongoing joint training and exercises that will continue to benefit both countries through strengthening military ties”.
Notably, the Roadmap has a section entitled “Antisemitism, delegitimisation, and anti-Israel bias” whose wording directly prophesies Britain’s extraordinary apologias for Israel’s Gaza atrocities in international fora.
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