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The 1st Amendment Freedom of Leak

August 17, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s a fact little remarked upon that in 1976 one current and one future leader of their nation’s top intelligence agency both voted communist: KGB’s Yuri Andropov in the Soviet Politburo …

Politics

Left academic: “If We Silence Hate Speech, Will We Silence Resistance?”

August 10, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

One of the most delightful recent political developments to watch is radicals and progressives waking up with a rude start to the fact that the cultural rules they have created …

Politics

Right-wing censors versus left-wing book burners

August 8, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Won’t somebody please think of the Constitutional children? By which I mean the Amendments, and especially the 1st one. Free speech is under attack, both in theory and in practice. …

Culture / Politics

The Unbearable Likeness of Winnie the Pooh

August 7, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

In the United States you have the right to bear arms; in China you don’t have the right to bear resemblance to its President: For only the second time this year, …

Politics

Museum folds like a cheap t-shirt

August 5, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Or a $19.97 long sleeve. Yesterday, a journalism website Poynter brought to everyone’s attention that a gift shop at Newseum (“the interactive news museum in Washington, D.C.”) is selling Donald Trump …

Politics

July 22, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

“MEDIATE” MY ASS – Victorian police has sent the organisers of the Lauren Southern speaking tour a bill for $68,000 “for the use of police resources”, or, to translate it …

Politics

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY – I don’t carry any water for Lauren Southern as I’m not a big fan of social media celebrity controversialists a la Milo, whether of the alt or …

Politics

July 19, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

ZUCK AND THE HOLOCAUST – Mark Zuckerberg is under attack for saying in an interview that Facebook won’t censor Holocaust denial: Mark Zuckerberg defended the rights of Facebook users to publish …

Politics

June 29, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

“A CONCERTED EFFORT” – It was a vast, right-wing conspiracy, explains Yassmin Abdel-Magied: “I don’t know how to explain how traumatic 2017 was,” she told SBS’ The Feed. “There’s nothing fun about …

Politics

June 26, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

DISCRIMINATION: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY – With another day of social media outrage and counter-outrage about Sarah Sanders being refused service at a restaurant in Virginia, I …

Happiness / Life / Politics

June 4, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WHAT HAVE I WRITTEN ABOUT EGYPT? – Nervously checking my old travel writing at the moment: A Lebanese tourist who posted a video on Facebook complaining of sexual harassment and …

Politics

May 24, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

LOOK WHO’S CREEPY – As I mentioned this morning, an American court has ruled that Donald Trump blocking people on his Twitter violates their First Amendment rights. It is a …

Politics

May 24, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

UNBLOCK – Fascinating court decision regarding the First Amendment: It is unconstitutional for public officials, including the president, to block Twitter followers who criticize them, a court ruled today in …

Politics

April 26, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

BORDERS WITHOUT REPORTERS – Reporters Without Borders has just released its 2018 World Freedom Index, and the United States has slipped another few spots, down to number 45 in the …

Politics

Happy Anzac Day from Catherine Deveny

April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

With Yassmin Abdel-Maghied currently overseas, someone has to step in stir the ANZAC pot: Why do people in the armed forces use the word 'serve' to describe their work despite …

Politics

April 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

HOGGING THE SPOTLIGHT – Someone’s in their 16th minute of fame at the moment: After starting an advertiser boycott of Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham, gun-control activist David Hogg …

Politics

You’ve got the right to remain silent

April 8, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

As I have written before, in our developed Western liberal democracies it’s not the government and its instrumentalities that account for the bulk of efforts to restrict free speech and …

Politics

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

FREE SPEECH AND THE LEFT – A few days ago I wrote about a Scottish lad Mike Meechan, who’s been convicted by a Scottish court (a judge, no jury) of …

Politics

Of Nazi pugs, gross offensiveness and double standards

March 21, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A few months ago, a friend sent me a link to a YouTube video, in which a Scottish lad decided to prank his girlfriend by secretly teaching her pet pug …

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Politics

In communism, the government rates you

March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Another reminder, if one is needed (the voice-over: one is, sadly, always needed) of the difference between the democratic and autocratic societies, the open and the closed ones, the individualistic …