Tag: Speech

Annual Report Ranks Free Speech Policies Of Tennessee Universities

Image Credit: TheFire.org The Tennessee Conservative Staff – An annual report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression says that only one Tennessee public university is strong when it comes to free speech policies on campus. The foundation’s yearly Spotlight on Speech Codes gave the University of Tennessee at Knoxville a rating of “green”, […]

Sinead O’Connor and the death of free speech

OVER the Christmas break I watched a documentary on the late Sinead O’Connor, or Saint Sinead if you live in Ireland.   O’Connor is best known for her haunting voice on Nothing Compares 2 U and for ripping up a photo of the then Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992. She was arguably one of […]

After 12 years of frustration, Mark Steyn’s brave battle for freedom of speech reaches court today

LONG before the covid era of repression and free speech censorship, well before students and universities began their routine censoring of incorrect speech, sending those who transgressed into the social gulag of non persondom (remember Professor Tim Hunt stripped of his position for observing that women cried), Mark Steyn had taken up arms on thought control and in defence of […]

Joe Biden’s Scary Speech on Jan. 6 – HotAir

Last Friday, ahead of the anniversary of Jan. 6, President Joe Biden gave a speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to kick off his 2024 campaign. His theme was that the upcoming presidential election will determine whether or not America remains a democracy because a vote for Donald Trump is a vote to end democracy in […]

Joe Biden’s Scary Speech on Jan. 6 – HotAir

Last Friday, ahead of the anniversary of Jan. 6, President Joe Biden gave a speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to kick off his 2024 campaign. His theme was that the upcoming presidential election will determine whether or not America remains a democracy because a vote for Donald Trump is a vote to end democracy in […]

UN plan to control online speech 

THE Epoch Times reports today that ‘a powerful United Nations agency has unveiled a plan to regulate social media and online communication while cracking down on what it describes as “false information” and “conspiracy theories” . . . the UN Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) outlined a series of “concrete measures which must be implemented by all […]