Hungary’s Justice Minister Judit Varga announced that “systematic abuses” of freedom of expression by tech giants should be addressed by the current government.
Angela Merkel has said the country could need 10 more weeks of hard lockdown measures in order to overcome the situation.
Free-speech platform, Parler, posted online at the weekend, with CEO John Matze posting a message to “lovers and haters” “Hello world, is this thing on?” Mr Matze wrote, a week after the site, which some conservatives see as an alternative to Twitter, was taken off line by Amazon Web Services and booted out of Google […]
A Swiss campaign group has gathered enough signatures to trigger a referendum on Covid-19 restrictions in the country. The Friends of the Constitution organisation collected 86,000 signatures which sparked a legal procedure under Swiss law to initiate a national vote on whether or not to repeal the 2020 Covid-19 Act. Switzerland has an usually devolved democratic system […]
Bloomberg.com has reported that 23 people have died in Norway a short time after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
In many ways, this is completely remarkable: NEW @ABC Wash Post poll: 54% say Pres Trump should be charged criminally with inciting a riot for having encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol. He’s leaving office with a 38% job approval rating; 60% disapproval More from @LangerResearch https://t.co/nSVXCDI1bs — Karen Travers (@karentravers) January 15, […]
Robert C. O’Brien, National Security Advisor to President Trump, has declassified a strategic document, the “U.S. Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific” 20 years early. The document sets out the Trump Administration’s high-level objectives and concerns in the Indo-Pacific region. The document is largely concerned with China, saying America needs to prevent China from “establishing new, […]
A retired Chicago firefighter has said online accusations that he killed a policeman on Capitol Hill last week has “f***ed my life up”.
Parler, a social media platform which some conservatives see as an alternative to Twitter, has urged the U.S. Western District Court to order Amazon to restore its service online. Parler also accused Amazon of being “motivated by political animus” and of acting “to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter”. Amazon Web […]
Archaeologists have found the world’s oldest recorded animal cave painting yet discovered, depicting a wild pig, believed to have been drawn over 45,500 years ago in Indonesia. Painted with dark red ochre in the Leang Tedongnge cave in a remote valley on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the image is of an almost life-sized representation […]
With the noose of tech censorship rapidly tightening across the world, everyone remotely critical of wokeness is being banned, and, if the President of the United States himself being digitally taken down is anything to go by, it appears that nobody is truly safe. Here’s a quick guide to some of the more secure, free […]
The impeachment vote passed by 232 votes to 197.