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Press release: Government, don’t touch us on our podcasters, even if they are vulgar, crass and childish
The extremely popular podcaster MacG asked some very vulgar and crass questions to a celebrity in an interview. Government wants
Press release: Proposal to ban foreign funding of NGOs a red herring – FSU SA
Repeated attempts have been made to restrict the activities and views of NGOs by, inter alia, interfering with their funding.
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
Press release: Freedom of speech at risk as UCT places guest lecture “on hold”
The 2024 Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture was to be delivered on 17 October by alumnus Claudius Senst, the chief executive of
How Zuckerberg censored Covid on Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg says he shouldn’t have caved in to the Biden administration’s pressure to censor information about Covid on Facebook
FSU SA joins global free speech campaign
Free speech is under assault in the English speaking world. The UK, New Zealand and Australia are in a fraught
Commentary
How about some chill from government for MacG
Crassness and vulgarity on podcasts can be condemned by anyone and everyone in society but perspective is important – our
Free speech − that old chestnut. Again
Steven Boykie Sidley discusses the global trend in the West – on the right or left – freedom of expression
How Woke activism destroyed UCT’s Professor Bongani Mayosi
The destructively judgmental element of Wokeism at UCT in the turbulent Fallist period claimed the life by suicide of the
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.
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
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