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The Gregory Alan Elliott Verdict Is the Stalingrad of Free Speech

On the January 22, the era of social justice ascendancy on the web came to a battered, exhausted halt. Gregory Alan Elliott, a Toronto artist who was dragged through the Canadian criminal justice system for the “crime” of disagreeing with feminists on Twitter, was declared innocent.

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Five Ways to Get Banned from Twitter

Twitter is notoriously opaque about why it punishes its users. Often, suspended users will get a message informing them they have been banned for violating the site’s terms of service, without being told specifically what they did. Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos has yet to be told why his “verified” status was removed.

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Silicon Valley’s Pointless Diversity Industry

In Britain, “trade union pilgrims” used to be a common sight in workplaces. Pilgrims were paid to do nothing but proselytize on behalf of trade unions. In other words, companies (and sometimes the taxpayer) would pay for employees who actually hindered

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Twitter’s History of Erratic Censorship Policies

Some might question the use of the term “censorship” to describe Twitter’s mysterious and erratic policies for banning users and blocking content, since Twitter is a private company and its users aren’t even paying anything for their accounts.

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Coming 2016: All-Out War On So-Called ‘Social Justice’

In 2016, battle lines will be drawn. On one side, people of all colours, genders and orientations are rallying around the flag of freedom of speech. On the other, a nasty set of authoritarians are rallying around a flag that identifies

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