censorship

^{Debra J. Saunders
October 10, 2021
Citizen Leadership}

Everybody Hates Facebook

_{Debra J. Saunders
October 10, 2021
Citizen Leadership}

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen and Facebook itself share a vocabulary that reflects current sensibilities. They both talk about making Facebook “safe” — as proofs of the social media giants’ role in making America uglier pop up daily. Read More ›

Private detective investigating secret case.

^{Debra J. Saunders
September 26, 2021
Citizen Leadership}

License to Work: Dissidents Need Not Apply

_{Debra J. Saunders
September 26, 2021
Citizen Leadership}

Gray was denied a private investigator license because of his social media comments. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
March 7, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

The French Revolution is Attacking the American Revolution

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 7, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

“That’s insane!” These days, how often do we say those words? The litany could go on and on. Dr. Seuss is suddenly persona non grata, six of his books removed from publication because they are “racist” and “hateful.” That’s insane! Read More ›

^{John G. West
February 26, 2021
Artificial Intelligence, Technology}

John West Interviewed about Seattle’s Untold Prohibition Against Discrimination Based On Political Ideology

_{John G. West
February 26, 2021
Artificial Intelligence, Technology}

An existing Seattle law expressly forbids businesses from discriminating on the basis of “political ideology” when contracting for goods or services. Read More ›

book with burning pages on a concrete surface

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 24, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

An Amazon Book Burning

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 24, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Book burning has always been a crucial ingredient of totalitarianism. In the 1930s the German Student Union infamously made bonfires from books considered antithetical to National Socialism. Similarly, the zealots who executed Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution destroyed books opposed to the diktats of Chinese Communism. Read More ›

The concept of planet Earth, with nuclear explosions depicting a global epidemic of coronovorus, reminiscent of the image of the virus COVID-19. Elements of this image furnished by NASA

^{Jonathan Bartlett
June 7, 2020
Artificial Intelligence}

Twenty Years On, Aliens Still Cause Global Warming

_{Jonathan Bartlett
June 7, 2020
Artificial Intelligence}

In 2003, author and filmmaker Michael Crichton made a now-famous speech at Caltech, titled "Aliens Cause Global Warming." The title was humorous but the content was serious. He was not addressing some strange theory of global warming; he was warning about the politicization of science. Read More ›

A male scientist wearing a mask and looking through the microscope in the laboratory, Concept, The scientists wear white protective clothing is experimenting with drug anti- Coronavirus

^{Michael Egnor
May 28, 2020
Intelligent Design}

What Scientists Know

_{Michael Egnor
May 28, 2020
Intelligent Design}

Our scientific elites insist that the “scientific consensus” be accepted without question. Read More ›

^{Evolution News
May 27, 2020
Intelligent Design}

Scientist Admits Biologists Are Obsessed with Intelligent Design

_{Evolution News
May 27, 2020
Intelligent Design}

What do scientists spend more time thinking about — sex, or the theory of intelligent design? Read More ›

Rest in Peace Posters of Dr Li Wenliang, who warned authorities about the coronovirus outbreak seen at Hosier Lane in Melbourne, Australia. Hosier Lane is known for its street art.

^{Heather Zeiger
February 1, 2020
Artificial Intelligence}

Censorship? But Coronavirus Doesn’t Care!

_{Heather Zeiger
February 1, 2020
Artificial Intelligence}

Coronavirus provides a test. The Chinese Communist Party offers mainland Chinese people security and prosperity in exchange for the sacrifice of personal freedom. But when the government cannot uphold its end of the agreement — security — the people may become less tolerant of the human rights violations. And the age of information makes it much easier to discover them. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
October 7, 2017
Technology}

The Spiral of Silence

_{Scott S. Powell
October 7, 2017
Technology}

Just two or three generations ago, most Americans understood that George Orwell’s classics Animal Farm and 1984 were written to explain how freedom is lost to totalitarianism and the intolerance that accompanies it. “Big Brother,” a term still casually used to describe an all-knowing governing authority, comes straight out of 1984. In the state that Orwell describes, all subjects are Read More ›