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“Governments Should Act Now to Curb Climate Disinformation” demands a letter backed by Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which has close ties to the British government, along with over 50 other organizations. The open letter calling for ending free speech to save the planet from global warming accuses social media, broadcast and publishing companies of being “enablers to planetary destruction” for allowing dissenting views and demands that governments step in and crack down. The groups call on “governments worldwide to take immediate and decisive action” and urge that “those responsible must be held accountable.” Or free speech will destroy the planet. Signatories to the censorship call also include the Union of Concerned Scientists, which would like to ban scientific debate, Avaaz, the radical Kairos Fellowship and Reporters Without Borders which started out protecting freedom of information, but now suppresses it. While green censo...

"Don't you think that users have a right to freedom of speech even if what they're saying is wrong or offensive?" Fox Business correspondent Hillary Vaughn asked. "I think that one human being should not be able to go into a dark room by himself and decide 'Oh, that person gets heard from, that person doesn’t.' That's not how it should work," Senator Elizabeth Warren retorted, referring to Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter. The question is who should get to decide? On the heels of the Warren exchange, Senator Josh Hawley released damning evidence demonstrating that Biden's “Disinformation Governance Board” had been interfacing with leftist eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s network. Warren objects to one billionaire member of the PayPal mafia, but not another making those decisions because they share a common set of political views that include censorship. While Musk put billions on the line to buy Twitter to protect free speech, Omidyar commi...

After spending the last few years banning Dr. Seuss and literally   burning   copies of Harry Potter novels in bonfires, and   denouncing   classic children’s literature like   Little House on the Prairie  and   Mary Poppins   as racist, leftists are now accusing conservatives of “banning books”. When a Minnesota school district  removed   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  and  To Kill A Mockingbird  from its curriculum because it made students "uncomfortable", the NAACP, which has been trying to ban Huck since at least  the 50s , cheered. So did the media which celebrated the effort to remove "racist language" that “triggered students of color” from the classroom. The removal of Mark Twain's authentically anti-racist masterpiece was carried out by anti-racists in school districts from Burbank, California to Lawrence, Kansas. In 2016, a Virginia school district, now at the center of media fear mongering about book b...

Six years ago, the ACLU challenged a school vaccine mandate bill in California. COVID-19 was only a gleam in the eye of some Wuhan University of Virology lab workers, if even that, and the vaccines in question were the more ordinary kind most children have. Even so, the ACLU argued that children have a right to a public education and can't be barred from school based on whether they're vaccinated or not. The civil rights groups also questioned the idea that the state has a "compelling interest" in requiring vaccinations. America has changed since and so has the ACLU. In a New York Times op-ed , the ACLU's national legal director and the director of its religious freedom program falsely claim that, "far from compromising civil liberties, vaccine mandates actually further civil liberties". Arguing that taking away some people’s civil liberties protects everyone’s rights isn’t a new argument. It’s just the argument that the ACLU spent its entire history mil...