Tag: free speech

UW-Madison Has Failed to Take Any Action Against Vandals Who Tried to Stop Matt Walsh Event, Organizer Claims

Eight weeks after a campaign of harassment and vandalism directed against the organizers of and participants in an event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison featuring conservative speaker and filmmaker Matt Walsh, the administration has yet to take disciplinary action against the culprits or even to express its disapproval of actions that clearly violated school policy,…


Celebrate Elon Musk, but Don’t Lose Sight of Big Tech’s Structural Problems

Commentary The story of Elon Musk’s acquisition, transformation, and public rehabilitation of Twitter is nothing short of remarkable. Here is that rarest of confluences: A right-leaning (or at least right-sympathetic) mega-billionaire privately acquires a disproportionately influential public company out of genuine public-spiritedness, perhaps even a hint of noblesse oblige, and an earnest commitment to preserving…


University Bosses Must Defend Free Speech: Watchdog

The head of the Office for Students has said that universities must balance equality laws while upholding free speech duties. Office for Students (OfS) Chief Executive Susan Lapworth has said that university leaders and academics should be proactive in upholding freedom of speech on their campuses. Lapworth made the comments in a commentary ahead of…


Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Dump

Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary Elon Musk’s release of internal Twitter correspondence around the censoring of the New York Post’s blockbuster “Hunter Biden laptop” story merely confirms what most knew already—that Twitter under Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal was staffed with Democratic Party partisans who censored information they thought would damage their cause. In a Tweet thread on Dec. 2,…


Truth Emerges From the Thicket of Lies

Commentary Reflect for a moment on the remarkable turn of events at Twitter. Elon Musk is the world’s richest man but he happens to have a moral conscience, which seems rather rare. He became interested in Twitter not as a money-making project but in the interest of free speech. He had some intuition that something…


Can Private Companies Censor If They Want To?

Commentary It’s like clockwork. Every time we get a new batch of proof that Big Tech companies have been censoring information related to COVID controls, vaccines, or other controversial topics, someone pops up with the same argument. They say these are private companies and they can do whatever they want. They aren’t violating the First…


LIVE NOW: What Was a Top Spy Doing at Twitter?

Elon Musk promised to return free speech and transparency to Twitter and said he was releasing internal documents related to Hunter Biden’s laptop. But then the company’s top lawyer—ex-FBI general counsel James Baker—was found hiding, and maybe destroying, key pieces of evidence implicating Twitter, the FBI, and perhaps the Bidens, too. In this jaw-dropping new…


What Was a Top Spy Doing at Twitter?

Elon Musk promised to return free speech and transparency to Twitter and said he was releasing internal documents related to Hunter Biden’s laptop. But then the company’s top lawyer—ex-FBI general counsel James Baker—was found hiding, and maybe destroying, key pieces of evidence implicating Twitter, the FBI, and perhaps the Bidens, too. In this jaw-dropping new…


[Live Dec9 11AM ET] What Was a Top Spy Doing at Twitter?

Elon Musk promised to return free speech and transparency to Twitter and said he was releasing internal documents related to Hunter Biden’s laptop. But then the company’s top lawyer—ex-FBI general counsel James Baker—was found hiding, and maybe destroying, key pieces of evidence implicating Twitter, the FBI, and perhaps the Bidens, too. In this jaw-dropping new…


LIVE at 11AM ET: What Was a Top Spy Doing at Twitter?

Elon Musk promised to return free speech and transparency to Twitter and said he was releasing internal documents related to Hunter Biden’s laptop. But then the company’s top lawyer—ex-FBI general counsel James Baker—was found hiding, and maybe destroying, key pieces of evidence implicating Twitter, the FBI, and perhaps the Bidens, too. In this jaw-dropping new…