Protected: Aquinas’ Verdict: Natural Law and Legal Positivism Clash Over Free Speech

Protected: Aquinas’ Verdict: Natural Law and Legal Positivism Clash Over Free Speech

Concerns over Canada’s eroding free speech rights were relieved when the Justin Trudeau government’s Online Harms Act died with the prorogation of Parliament. But this is no time to relax, writes Morrigan Geleynse. The authoritarian impulse to criminalize more and more types of speech still animates Canadian governments. As Geleynse explains, the threat stems from the rise of “legal positivism”, a doctrine that strips morality and higher authori…

UK’s Free Speech Hypocrisy: Starmer Guards Speech While Criminalizing It

In the grand theater of political hypocrisy, few performances rival the spectacle unfolding in the United Kingdom. Vice President J.D. Vance’s recent speech in Munich sent shockwaves through European corridors of power, with leaders publicly expressing disbelief at being accused of rolling back on free speech. The most laughable denial came from UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who… Source

We all think we know what anti-Semitism is: a prejudice against Jews that can result in discrimination and even public and collective violence. In Europe, we know him well, with a history full of ghettos, anti-Jewish laws, pogroms, up to the ultimate horror of the Shoah. It is a story that has never stopped and continues to this day. But there is now a 'new anti-Semitism', that is, a new, more extensive notion of anti-Semitism, and it is often u…

Free speech ‘central’ to OfS’ work despite law changes – Ahmed

Regulator ‘looking forward to getting on with it’ after key interventions delayed by political wrangling

Even more assaults on free speech to silence criticism of Israel – altnews.org

I have said it before and I will say it again: there is no greater threat to free speech in

Even more assaults on free speech to silence criticism of Israel

I have said it before and I will say it again: there is no greater threat to free speech in our society than Israel and the western governments who support it.Caitlin JohnstoneNotes From The Edge Of The Narrative MatrixListen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖Acting on orders from the White House, immigration agents have arrested a Columbia University graduate for deportation due to his leadership of campus protests against I…