Back when I was involved with Parler, I wrote an article about FaceBook and it’s then-newly anointed Oversight Board. A more apt name might have been Tourqemada, condemning people to a digital inquisition. Free speech frauds did not condemn the concept of this board,...
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No Free Speech. No Privacy.
by Jeffrey Wernick | Nov 7, 2022 | Blog
Let’s keep things simple and clear. There are no free speech platforms on Apple or Google. Apple rules. Google rules. Their rules do not permit free speech. PERIOD! Additionally, Apple and Google are surveillance platforms that require “social media” apps to do...
Corporations Pull Twitter Ads After Promoted Tweets Appeared Near Child Porn Requests
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 28, 2022 | News
An investigation conducted by the cybersecurity group Ghost Data found that advertisements from well-known companies appeared on Twitter accounts that promote child pornography. Several corporations have removed their ads from the social networking site in response. Ghost Data identified hundreds of accounts sharing underage pornographic content which Twitter did not remove.
Russia Announces Citizenship for Whistleblower Edward Snowden
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 26, 2022 | News
Heroic whistleblower Edward Snowden was granted Russian citizenship on Monday. Snowden leaked a massive cache of documents from the National Security Agency proving mass surveillance of American citizens existed.
An Invisible Enemy Turned Inward
by Clint Russell | Sep 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
Originally written in 2021, this article was later published in The Voluntaryist Handbook With rare exception, war has been fought by the poor and powerless on behalf of the wealthy and powerful. No war in my lifetime has broken this pattern. Young men go overseas...
White House Approves Over $1 Billion in Military Aid to Egypt Despite Human Rights Abuses
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Sep 15, 2022 | News
The White House on Wednesday announced it would send over $1 billion in security assistance to Egypt. The Joe Biden administration approved the aid as several top Democratic lawmakers pushed to reduce security assistance for Egypt by $300 million. While Egyptian...
Saudis Use Orwellian App to Identify Dissidents, Imprisoning Some for Decades
by Connor Freeman and Will Porter | Sep 3, 2022 | News
Saudi Arabians are using a mobile app sold by both Apple and Google to snitch on their fellow citizens for dissenting against government authorities. As a result, activists and others are going to prison for more than 30 years in some cases, Business Insider reported on Friday.
Update: Arrest Warrant for Ray Epps Was Issued in 2016
by Ken Silva | Sep 1, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Ray Epps might not face charges for trespassing on Capitol Hill grounds and encouraging others to do the same, but he could be wanted for allegedly trespassing on someone’s property in Pennsylvania. The Libertarian Institute initially reported last month on a 2015...
UN Accuses China of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ in Xinjiang
by Will Porter | Sep 1, 2022 | News
The United Nations’ human rights body has accused the Chinese government of major abuses against Muslim minorities in Xinjiang province, issuing a new report alleging arbitrary detentions, forced labor and even torture. Beijing immediately denied the charges.
Biden Says US Must ‘Lead the World’
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Jul 1, 2022 | News Roundup
President Joe Biden has declared that the United States is still at the pinnacle of global power and best suited to “lead the world,” despite the Supreme Court’s recent “destabilizing” ruling on abortion, soaring inflation and growing civil unrest.
Privacy and the Constitution
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 27, 2022 | Blog, Justice, Libertarianism
"[B]oth the [']liberals['] and the conservatives misunderstand privacy. The conservatives engage in a narrow and unnatural reading of the Constitution in order to avoid seeing what they do not wish to see, while the [']liberals['] find in the Constitution not...
New Report Reveals ICE Spent Billions Spying on Americans
by Kyle Anzalone | May 10, 2022 | News Roundup
Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent $2.8 billion to surveil Americans from 2008 to 2021. The report titled “American Dragnet: Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century” from the Georgetown Law Center for Privacy and Technology details how ICE used warrantless,...
Released FBI Document Asserts Saudi Embassy Employee Connected to 9/11
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | May 10, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over the past several months, the FBI released thousands of pages of material relating to its investigation of Saudi government links to the 9/11 attacks. This wave of declassifications was pursuant to Executive Order 14040, which President Biden issued on Sept. 3...
Privacy as a Property Right
by Sheldon Richman | May 5, 2022 | Blog, Justice, Libertarianism
In 1993 I wrote an article at the Cato Institute that may be relevant to the current controversy over abortion and the Supreme Court: "Dissolving the Inkblot: Privacy as a Property Right."
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Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
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