"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"
George Orwell
The absurd act of taking a knee for BLM and their attack on the rule of law is a blow to all decent people – not least the black part of the population: they must suffer the indignity of not being measured by the same parameters as everyone else because apparently, the same demands of decency cannot be asked of them - solely because of their complexion.
Again YouTube's censorship hammer drops heavily on Tommy Robinson.
One can hardly fail to notice that the criticism of Hungary is anything but politically tinted, because we, in Denmark, to a large extent, do the same thing as the Orban government does in Hungary: suspending the freedom of assembly, and the attack on the inviolability of the home.
Is the German intelligence service's recent intervention against the AfD a politically motivated criminalization of Germany's leading democratic opposition party? In favor of the old parties in power in the country's "big coalition", who are losing votes to this party in particular?
Last week, China's official news agency thus issued a message that was not just a total neglect of the dictatorship's responsibility for the fatal consequences of the coronavirus worldwide - it was a definite tribute to the totalitarian regime's handling of the epidemic.
The litigation so far is a depressing example of the feminized perversion of the rule of law, which considers it more important to punish a father for giving a man who molests a child a knocking about, than it wants to prevent a child molester from walking about to abuse other children, which Robinson's daughter's abuser can do until he is to testify as the wronged party in court in the case against Tommy Robinson on April 2.
It reflects a very odd approach to the issue of freedom of speech to make it an exclusive concern for the so-called elite - even if this "intellectual" elite lives by "communicating ideas"
...who are these "somebodies" who, based on political motives, and on the basis of subjective reluctance now sit and have the power to decide on tech giants’ censorship policy? Who and what groups have now been given the political power to autocratically restrict the democratic public and the content of the political debate on social media?
With the award of the Sappho Award, Tommy Robinson, the Free Press Society is once again positioning itself exactly where we should be: On the front line of freedom of expression. And this is where we have placed ourselves each time we have awarded the Sappho Prize.
… For if awards are to be of any relevance at all, they must be given to those who deserve them!
Freedom of expression is under tremendous strain. Nationally and globally, writers, artists and politicians are threatened upon their lives and/or with their livelihoods, or sued in court for expressing particular views. Fear, self-censorship and oppressive anti-defamation laws are in the process of undermining our main liberty: Freedom of expression.
The Free Press Society’s freedom of expression prize, the Sappho Award, is awarded to a person who has shown uncompromising courage in the struggle for the free word.
