Freedom of Speech
Brazil’s “rebrand” of internet censorship laws ignites international controversy amid stark opposition from tech mogul Elon Musk.
Brazil has caused quite a stir lately when the country’s ongoing internet censorship policies and actions hit the international limelight, thanks to a clash between Superior Electoral Court President Alexandre de Moraes, a long-time champion of those policies, and X owner Elon Musk.
But Musk is by no means the only one pushing back against censorship demands – many in Brazil do as well, so the authorities there recently decided to go into damage control mode and attempt to “rebrand” censorship legislation.
Up until this point, the general policy was known (and according to the local press, unpopular) as, regulation of social networks, but now, it is to be referred to as – laws meant to usher in “free, responsible, and transparent internet.”
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Read MoreCanada’s long march towards suppressing free expression on the internet is about to run headlong into the federal government’s other great nemesis — the People’s Republic of China (PRC). And the battleground is dance videos.
Last month, the US House of Representatives passed a bill with broad bipartisan support requiring the owner of TikTok — a Chinese company called ByteDance — to sell the popular social media platform or cease operations in America because of concerns over Chinese government involvement and data collection.
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Read MoreDisassembling the gender confusion agenda in Idaho, Alberta and Saskatchewan, Throttling Trudea’s carbon tax, the crumbling covid deception including Finnish official’s admission under-oath, and more.
I hope you are ready for a interesting list of solid wins this week. Here’s fifteen important advances, along with some laughter and a few good rants. Please keep up the great work!
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Read MorePlus: the Cass Review and the WHO’s fake news about vaping.
Stand-up comedian Josh Howie joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the revelations from the Cass Review, the World Health Organisation’s disinformation about vaping and how wokeness has divided the comedy industry.
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Read MoreI’ve updated my Global Apology to reflect how I feel now, so let me share it with you here. I’d really love your feedback, so we can customize the Healing Medical Trauma class. I’ll post this to my Facebook page, so please respond there if you have anything you wish to share with me about how you’ve been hurt by the medical system- and what you feel you would need in order to begin to heal.
I’ll start with my personal apologies, most of which are aimed at people who knew me back when I was seeing 40 patients/day in a busy managed care practice. I’m so sorry to that kid I chewed out in the grocery store after I had been on call for 72 hours- the one who couldn’t get my bagel scanned for the life of him, which led me to spew, “If I did my job the way you did your job, there would be dead people everywhere.” It sucks that I demeaned that kid, and I feel awful and ashamed about it all these years later. I’m sure there were others- nurses, medical students, and my own family- who got that kind of insulting behavior from me when I was exhausted, burned out, and angry that nobody stood up for my right to care about my most basic needs, including me.
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Read MoreAfter 18 protests regarding SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) were counted by the province, B.C. is now interested in banning demonstrations from taking place near schools.
The new legislation would allow the provincial government to restrict protests they deem “aggressive” that occur within 20 meters of the building.
Those protesting within 20 meters can be ticketed or arrested by police if the school feels they disrupt classroom activities.
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Read MoreWatch the full video here: Gaza Is A “Horror Film” – Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa + Journalist Prem Thakker On Al Shifa https://youtube.com/live/aR4Ied3uTOY?…
00:00 Intro
1:00 Palestinian woman RESCUES her husband from IOF
3:20 Why Jews need to take back their religion from Israel
Palestinian novelist and activist Susan Abulhawa discusses the atrocities that Israel commits.
Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American writer and human rights activist. She is the author of Mornings in Jenin, which was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies, The Blue Between Sky And Water and Against the Loveless World. She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine and the executive director of Palestine Writes (https://palestinewrites.org/).
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Read MoreThe MPA’s latest campaign to block piracy sites could transform internet freedom and ignite a fierce battle over digital rights.
The US Motion Picture Association (MPA), a trade association representing half a dozen huge film and TV studios, is gearing up for a big campaign to get lawmakers to pass legislation that would force ISPs to block sites – yet another way the industry hopes to fight its long “war on piracy.”
Association CEO Charles Rivkin revealed that this essentially lobbying effort of “working with Congress members” has the goal of mandating that internet providers must block sites accused of piracy.
Addressing the CinemaCon in Las Vegas, which gathers owners of movie theaters, Rivkin stated that “the next major phase” in what he said was an evolving danger of piracy is MPA “working with members of Congress to enact judicial site-blocking legislation here in the United States.”
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Read MoreFree speech, not censorship, remains the only weapon for defeating disinformation and hate speech
When I was in my early 20s, I became enamored with Brazil’s left-wing Workers Party (PT) and its leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. I read an inspiring 1991 book, Without Fear of Being Happy, whose title is the English translation of Lula’s campaign slogan. It described Lula and the PT as democratic socialists who embraced anti-poverty measures but also rejected the authoritarianism and censorship of Communist regimes such as the one in Cuba.
In 1994, I interviewed the great man himself in his office in São Paulo. I asked Lula, if he were elected president, would he transform Brazil into another Cuba, complete with censorship? He said, emphatically, “No.” The Brazilian people loved freedom too much, he explained, as did he. After all, Lula had risen to fame in the 1970s when he led mass protests against Brazil’s military dictatorship as a labor union leader.
Now, 30 years later, President Lula is seeking sweeping restrictions on freedom of speech as severe as the ones that have been in place in Cuba since the early 1960s, after Fidel Castro seized power through military violence. Last year, shortly after taking office, Lula created two new agencies, the National Prosecutor’s Office for the Defense of Democracy (PNDD), under the supervision of the Attorney General of the Republic, and the Orwellian-named “Department for the Promotion of Freedom of Expression,” with extraordinary censorship powers.
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Read MoreThe most high-profile opponent of Australia’s brutal COVID-19 lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and violent suppression of public criticism has been Monica Smit. Her resistance is continuing. She has announced that she will be suing the Victoria police. The court case is scheduled for July 23 and is expected to take 15 days.
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