A long report on the war on speech up north.
Dark times....
Posted on 07/02/2021 1:57:10 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The "free world" barely pretends to favor free speech these days. The triggered interns who infest the big publishing houses openly demand their employers pulp the latest manuscripts from J K Rowling and Jordan Peterson. The totalitarian wankers of the British police sit around the station all day monitoring Twitter for transphobic quips, which is far more congenial labor than getting off their flabby arses and catching criminals. The woke billionaires of social media boast openly of their success at "fortifying" the US election by memory-holing unhelpful content.
Beyond those specifics, there are few takers for the principle of "free speech". For most people under thirty - forty? fifty? - freedom of expression takes a back seat on ever more issues. On climate, Islam, race, immigration, LGBTQWERTY and of course ChiCom-19, there is one correct position and it is entirely legitimate therefore to quash any dissenting views.
In such a world it is no surprise to find that Justin Trudeau's ministry is preparing to restore "Section 13" of the Canadian Human Rights Code. The repeal of that vile law represents one of my few victories in the political realm. As the saying goes, there are no permanent victories in politics, and I would have a tougher time winning that battle today: The principled lefties (Margaret Wente) who offered support have themselves been canceled, and the queasier ones (Neil Macdonald) who objected on the grounds that all the attention was merely helping me sell even more books have been supplanted by more committed warriors who feel that, with Zuckerberg and Bezos at your back, there is no one so lofty he can't be brought low.
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A long report on the war on speech up north.
Dark times....
Gads. What a posse of putrid pusses smirking pustulatingly.
If you have to ask then be assured it ain’t you.
Who, whom ? is he only relevant criteria.
When idiots rule, idiocy reigns.
Trudeaus legislation essentially is an attack on religious liberty. Say that one’s sexual proclivities is not the basis of their identity. Hate Speech! Slap that $50,000 fine on there. It is nothing less than the weaponizing of the state against its citizens. So backwards. The state is to serve the citizens.
Trudeau. Again this is a way to stop criticism of policy. Suggest that we don’t need more Somalis or Syrian refugees. Hate Speech!
The next question is what will Facebook do? My guess is those weasels will cooperate fully with the feds.
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