Media

Press release from FSU Australia: The eSafety Commissioner's latest legal loss (including serious judicial criticism)

FSU Australia scores a win against the eSafety Commissioner of Australia.The Commissioner was found to have been illegally taking down social media posts! A tribunal has found the eSafety Office has been operating outside the law by sending informal takedown notices to social media platforms. The informal takedowns meant the original poster was unaware they had their post removed & stripped them of their legal right to appeal the takedown.

The return of free speech

Simon Lincoln Reader welcomes Donald Trump's executive order to restore free speech which protects people with objectionable or pathetic views. And says that is exactly the way it should be.

Ruminations on the "Truth" (Part 2)

In Part 2 of this series, Terence Corrigan discusses how people and societies can protect themselves from misinformation, and how they should genuinely honour the concept of "truth", both individually and collectively.

Ruminations on “Truth” (Part 1)

Our public conversation is dominated by narrative, by emotion and the heady lure of perceived virtue. In appropriating the concept to truth, as has been done in South Africa it delivered the country to something of a post-truth world long before Donald Trump’s name appeared on a ballot half a world away. Terence Corrigan, Project & Publications Manager at the Institute of Race Relations analyses the narration of our conversation. This is the 1st of a 2 part series.

Welcome to 2025 and the year of "The Donald", like him or loathe him

FSU SA welcomes you to 2025 and right up will be President Donald Trump's first executive order today which is called “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” Who'd have thought that a 14-word title could be clickbait?

Interview: Subduing free speech in Britain - a Daily Friend Show Special with Simon Lincoln Reader

In this Daily Friend Show Special, done in association with the FSU SA, Sara Gon talks to Simon Lincoln Reader about the bizarre and chilling clampdown on free speech in Britain.

Free Speech Matters Episode 5: Cancelled by a poetry group for being a zionist

Sara Gon interviews Associate Professor of Philosophy about being cancelled by a poetry group for being a zionist & talks about what it's like to be a classical liberal academic at UCT currently.

Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson faces investigation over reported ‘non-crime hate incident’

Free speech in the first world is, at times, a bizarrely dystopian experience. The original FSU in the UK, to whom FSU SA is affiliated on the International Association of Free Speech, has strictures of freedom of speech that South Africans would look aghast at. No more than the application of the Orwellian concept of the Non-crime Hate Incident (NCHI). An NCHI is a "non-crime" but can show up on an enhanced criminal records check! Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson is facing an investigation over such a bizarre allegation.