Every now and then I'm reminded that the UK has this thing called a #SuperInjunction, which compels the UK media not to report on a story.
There's something rather quaint about it, like an echo of an earlier era before the telegraph - and The Telegraph.
Unrelatedly, it's always nice to hear what those thoroughly lovely and not in any way dodgy people at the #FreeSpeechUnion have been up to of late...
Casey Costello meets with self-proclaimed ‘terf’ as landmark case reaches final chapter
While the associate health minister hosted an Irish anti-trans activist to discuss ‘women’s rights’, around the corner, the…
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Thanks for the reminder. Has anyone written anything that explains the background of the alleged Free Speech Onion takeover attempt in some detail, maybe with a timeline?
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@AnnaMcM
"Defenders of rubbish human behaviour love this version of free speech: irresponsible, unethical and individualistic. When other types of free speech are under attack - say by threats against libraries who want to host rainbow story time - well, they seem to lose interest."
https://theendisnaenae.substack.com/p/in-good-faith
Some might. Others are more consistent in their decent of their stated principles;
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The recent exposure of NZ groups operating under the control of the #AtlasNetwork umbrella such as the #NZInitiative #TaxPayersUnion and #FreeSpeechUnion is helping wake up many NZers to the threat of multi national corporate control of #NZPol and policies. #DavidSeymour 's Treaty Principles Bill has helped shine a light on the ACTlas Network Party's treacherous motives.
The big #AtlasNetwork PR con declaring AtNtwk partner the NZ #FreeSpeechUnion coming out in opposition to the #Luxon led #NZPol #GangPatch ban is such a, call me cynical, cheap arse stunt.
#JonathanAyling gives a fairly nuanced perspective on the free speech implications of calls to censure Prof Joanna Kidman, for her comments about the NatACTs' dopey Boot Camps.
In a nutshell, he says that as an academic her employer should be tireless in its defence of her freedom of expression. But in her role as a ministerial advisor, a non-partisan approach to public comment is called for;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018929074/free-speech-advocate-on-professors-social-media-posts
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A free speech advocate says a professor who described the Government as a "death cult" on a social media platform, should be allowed to make those comments, but should expect consequences if she does so - but not from the university that employs her. Professor Joanna Kidman, who is a director for a publicly funded, but independent anti-extremism centre, asked in a post on X "is this a government or a death cult?", in response to the Government's military-style academies for young offenders. In a statement, a spokesperson for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet says it's conveyed its concerns about the comments to Victoria University. Professor Kidman has not responded to RNZ's requests for comment. Free Speech Union chief executive Jonathan Ayling spoke to Corin Dann.
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I'll never forget the support Darren Watson and I didn't get from the #FreeSpeechUnion when the last National #NZPol Key govt through MoJ Judith Collins and the NZEC banned the song and video #PlanetKey from radio broadcast, online streaming and eventually from sale.
Time for a walk down memory lane.
https://vimeo.com/102441715
Planet Key was written and performed by Darren Watson with video created by Jeremy Jones from Propeller Motion. The Electoral Commissions broadcast & advertising…
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