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Does Freedom Of Speech Need To Be Redefined

May 21, 2024 Ray Cardello

By including Freedom of Speech in the First Amendment, our brilliant forefathers recognized the importance of a person’s right to express their thoughts without rebuke. This freedom was essential at a time when there was so much angst about the British government, emotions were high, and people were stimulated by each other’s actions to speak … Read more

MIT Decides to Scarp Its Diversity Oath for New Faculty – Will It Make Any Difference?

May 15, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Has the Massachusetts Institute of Technology taken an unprecedented step for a woke University? It says it will no longer demand that faculty swear an oath – in writing – to the pantheon of gods known as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

They Are The Fascists

May 13, 2024May 11, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The US State Department and a short list of named co-conspirators are being sued for “engaging with and promoting censorship technology designed to bankrupt domestic media outlets with disfavored political opinions.”

Your Government is Using Campus Protests and “Anti-Semitism” to Suppress Free Speech

January 5, 2025May 4, 2024 Steve MacDonald

It should be a maxim of our Constitutional Republic and inculcated into the collective consciousness that thou shalt not let legislators vote hastily on bills in response to current events. They almost always waste money, infringe on rights, or produce lousy laws, and the Antisemitism Awareness Act is an example of this bad idea. In response to … Read more

How EU Law Has Made the Internet Less Free for Everyone Else

May 1, 2024 Op-Ed

If you have been using the internet for longer than a couple of years, you might have noticed that it used to be much “freer.” What freer means in this context is that there was less censorship and less stringent rules regarding copyright violations on social media websites such as YouTube and Facebook (and consequently a wider array of content).

Did Outraged Pro-Palestine Protesters at UNH Just Guarantee Speech Protections for Opinions They Hate?

March 29, 2025April 30, 2024 Steve MacDonald

It tickles me to no end when I see students radicalized by woke teachers and professors, getty uppity about the Biden regime. Even in New Hampshire, where we’ve not seen the vitriol and violence from which years of progressive inculcation stems, they came out to shout some slogans and demand things.

Joe Biden Sees Free Speech As A Muzzle On His Competition

April 27, 2024 Ray Cardello

Joe Biden uses his mouthpiece, Karine Jean Pierre, to detail his stance on every American deserving their Constitutional right to Free Speech. KJP will refer to all of her coined responses in her massive notebook. They are lines that could be written by a 5th-grade class given the assignment to define Free Speech.

To Alissandra Murray and Everyone Else in Office Blocking People on Social Media …

January 4, 2025April 15, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Manchester NH House Rep/Lobbyist Alissandra Murray has occasionally attracted the attention of our authors and commenters. Last week, she is reported to have used the block feature on her X account, which is as good a time as any to revisit this.

Freedom Of Speech And Thought Is On The Block

March 22, 2024 Ray Cardello

The recent unfortunate event in New York City, which honored the promoted FDNY members, poses many questions about rights and decisions. As does the outburst by the Gold Star father who shouted down Joe Biden as he delivered the State of the Union address.

Irony Alert: Congress Wants to Ban a Platform Doing More to Protect Free Speech Than They Do

March 21, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The Congressional TikTok Ban is a bad idea, and Republicans promoting and advancing it make it worse. We can wonder why they are helping Biden’s agenda but a greater issue is wanting any president to have the ability to censor any social media platforms at an executive whim.

With 9-0 Decision SCOTUS Tells Public Officials How Blocking People on Social Media Could Get them Sued

March 17, 2024 Steve MacDonald

I like to harp on local House Reps, typically Democrats, who block people on social media that disagree with their public political statements, positions, or advocacy. Now, I can say they should have seen this coming, especially those who praised the courts for smacking then-President Trump around for doing the same thing.

Night Cap: What’s Wrong with Censorship?

March 4, 2024 Op-Ed

Is there such a thing as one single source of truth? Is it the government, social media platforms, TV, radio, a book, or a political party? Probably not. All of these things come from people, and we all make mistakes. Nobody is right all of the time about everything.

The First Amendment is a Problem for at Least One Third of Americans

March 2, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Polling on the problem of too much free speech is a scary enough prospect as the Government that lies to us works to convince Americans that it not only has no obligation to protect their First Amendment rights but that citizens should rally to demand it take them.

In Defense of Free Markets, Free Speech and Free People

February 22, 2024 Steve MacDonald

We are reaching out to you with an urgent appeal. As a leader in local independent media, we are dedicated to providing you with unfiltered news and opinions you can only get at GraniteGrok.com. Every day, we strive to make a meaningful impact on cultural and political debate in defense of free speech and free people.

‘Hate Speech’ Means they Hate … Speech

February 14, 2024 Steve MacDonald

There is speech that is hateful, but the people who want to use that idea to silence other opinions hate speech. Intransitive Verb: ‘ To feel a strong dislike for or hostility toward.’ The laws they want or pass are about hating speech, not hateful speech. Free speech is what they hate.

Anti-Book Banning Dems Have a Huge Problem: Biden White House Pressured Amazon to Ban Books

February 7, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Democrats (mostly) have been arguing that removing age-inappropriate “books” from schools is book banning. They can’t shut up about it, but anyone can get these books with a few clicks electronically (for the groomer in a hurry) or in print in a handful of days. But the idea of “banning books” has a visceral feel.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Releases Latest Campus Free Speech Ratings

February 4, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has released its latest looks at free speech on America’s college campuses. The “Spotlight on Speech Codes 2024” report grades alleged schools of higher learning on their speech policies.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court Rules … NO Free Speech In New Hampshire

January 26, 2024 Ed Mosca

First, I would be remiss if I didn’t note that I became aware of this latest assault on liberty in New Hampshire from the NeverTrump, RINO website NH-Journal, a/k/a NH-NeverTrump-Journal. So what happened is a January 19th decision by the New Hampshire Supreme Court that essentially said you have no right to expressive speech in New Hampshire (here’s the link):

HB1500: The Dems Latest Act to Chill Free Speech and Expression … Is a New Kind of Stupid (With an Old Twist)

January 27, 2024January 26, 2024 Steve MacDonald

A group of New Hampshire Democrats have introduced a bill that is so blatantly unconstitutional that you’d think even they would know better. There is no chance of that. Oppressing speech feels right, especially if your bill allows you to accuse people of a crime without evidence of one.

NewsGuard Helps The ‘Grok Add to Its Independent Media Credentials

January 24, 2024 Steve MacDonald

If you recall, I reported on an email exchange with an editor or researcher (or some such thing) from NewsGuard. They are a deep-state surveillance stooge for policing unapproved content. Put another way, the lower your rating, the less likely you are peddling the uniparty, globalist narrative