Prior Restraint and Compelled Speech
The First Amendment is not what a lot of people think it is. In fact, "the Freedom of Speech" doesn't mean what a most people imagine it means, though its…
Speech vs. Inquiry: Or Why I Am Against Free Speech
I've been reading more about propertarianism of late. While I consider myself to be a propertarian, I always had a bit of an issue with propertarianism's opposition to freedom of…
Free Speech and Violence: A Paradox
At the suggestion of a friend, I have been reading over a little bit of Brandenburg v. Ohio, the 1969 legal case which most definitively decided that one's right to…
On Vox Day and Free Speech
Vox Day has been arguing against Free Speech for a few months now, and laid out what he believes to be a knock-down argument against it tonight in one of…
A Four-Minute Vision of the Future
If you haven't followed the story of Dankula, this neatly sums up what happened: This is where all the virtue-signaling, the centralized control, the philosophically-ignorant moralizing, and the fetishization of…
They Really Are That Bad
I had a conversation with an HVAC technician about our university system last week. This guy -- we'll call him Steve -- was happy to criticize and insult the state…
Free Speech Needs Nationalism
I was reading a book written by my great-great grandfather a few days ago. It described (among other things) the account of his journey from Scotland to India in the…
The Benevolence of the Censor
I think Tim Pool is beginning to get past the initial "hate speech is nonsense" reaction, and discovering the moral virtue of hatred. He is not the only one on the…
Defeating the Censors
Millennial Woes and Sargon of Akkad chat in their annual "Milleniyule" video. In my opinion, the most important part of the conversation happens at the very beginning: MW: Before we…
The Answer to Censorship of Hate-Speech (Regarding Sargon’s Departure from Patreon)
Sargon has now been banned from Patreon, for -- imagine my shock -- hate speech. What is curious is the precise sentence that the political activists at Patreon chose as…
- 1
- 2