The Chinese embassy has released a statement saying that it wishes to express its “grave concern and strong opposition” to a statement recently published by Minister Simon Coveney. It says that the Minister’s statement made “groundless accusations” against China’s new security legislation for Hong Kong. Minister Coveney had said that he was “concerned” about the […]
Police in Hong Kong have confirmed that nearly 200 people in the region have been arrested less than 24 hours after the new National Security Law was imposed on Hong Kong by China. The law, which aims to clamp down on the protests that have been occurring in the city over the last year, was […]
Reddit’s new policy on hate speech says that the rules won’t protect “groups who are in the majority.” Reddit has purged about 2,000 sub-reddits, essentially smaller forums on Reddit loosely themed around a particular topic or group, and adopted a new content policy they say will crack down on hate speech. The new policy says […]
A new report, based on leaked Chinese government documents, has said that the Chinese government has been systematically sterilizing women from ethnic minorities. According to the report the Chinese government has also put in place mandatory birth control and forced abortions for women from certain ethnic backgrounds. According to Dr Adrian Zenz, the author of […]
Cambridge University has defended a professor’s right to free speech after a petition called for her to be sacked for sending a tweet which said “White lives don’t matter.” The tweet was subsequently deleted by Twitter for breaching it’s hateful conduct policy, but the academic has said she stands over her statement and that we need to “abolish […]
Prominent Irish Comedian David Reilly has been publicly accused of rape, emotional abuse, and the secret recording of his sexual partners, and has publicly responded to the claims of emotional abuse and the secret recording of sexual partners by saying that the claims had a “huge amount” of truth to them. Mr Reilly is well known in the world […]
Fallon Fox, the first openly transgender MMA fighter, took to Twitter yesterday to explain that she “enjoyed” fracturing the skull of one of the first woman to fight her, and that she loves, “smacking up TERFs in the cage…it’s bliss!” Fallon, who was previously a member of the US military, came out as transgender in […]
Tensions have flared between India and China after a border clash led to the death of several soldiers. The fighting is understood to have happened over Monday night. Initial reports said that at least three soldiers from the Indian military had died, with reports saying that the Chinese military had also suffered an unknown number […]
The draft Program for Government, laying out everything FF, FG, and the Greens will prioritize over the life of the next government, makes an explicit, and deeply disappointing, commitment to bring in hate speech laws. It doesn’t really come as a surprise, we’ve seen an increased push for these laws from NGOs and politicians over […]
The British government has released a report which says that one of their diplomats in Hong Kong was tortured over a 15-day period by Chinese police. The report also says that the Chinese government have so far not given an “adequate” explanation of the situation. Simon Cheng, a consular worker in Hong Kong working to monitor the […]
A new website, Topple the Racists, which lists statues that they believe should be destroyed is being heavily promoted by left-wing figures in the UK. It appears that those creating the website have been somewhat overzealous when creating the list and have included a monument to former British Prime Minister Charles Grey, whose government outlawed […]
Following the tearing down of a statue of Edward Colston, an English philanthropist and slave trader, by rioters in Bristol, the BBC has helpfully published a list of other statues of individuals with links to the slave trade. The list is in an article, headlined “London statues with slavery links ‘should be taken down’”, which quotes […]