The former prime minister was escorted to his car by police following a protest at Sydney University,where he was due to talk to law students.
We ought to consider the complex new fact that liberal society is endangered by many of those vehemently defending free speech.
Social media has empowered the censorious,who need no more than a Twitter account to launch malevolent threats against free expression.
Salman Rushdie has illuminated the hypocrisy,delusion and cravenness of the powerful,of the West’s intellectual and literary elite,even of Joe Biden.
The reaction to Salman Rushdie’s novel in 1989 was a presentiment of our age in which words are ritually denounced as violence.
Iran never has lifted the fatwa on Sir Salman Rushdie,even as the West pretended it could be trusted.
Partisan allegiances are on a collision course with personal preferences as we try to find the right balance of health and freedom.
The average Twitter user does not have the protection of “shield laws” which give effect to the presumption that the journalist/source relationship should remain confidential.
Australia’s former Labor foreign affairs minister writes that this is the new prime minister’s moment to tell the US president what he has already declared publicly about the Assange case:“Enough is enough.”
Regardless of your opinion of the rivals in this defamation case - @PRGuy17 and the right-wing blogger Avi Yemini - you should care what the ruling does to your liberty.
Musk needs to abandon his ego-centric notion that free speech means people can say whatever they want,free from censorship.