".... the events that transpired afterwards are much more important ... Specifically ... the banning of a sitting US president from social media. The banning itself was condemned by many prominent figures, including the German chancellor Angela Merkel or the anti-corruption advocate and chief Putin rival Alexey Navalny."
"A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden whites."
"...if the U.S. president is having trouble securing his freedom of speech, the chances for the average person is practically nonexistent."
"... Scotland deserves better."
"You cannot gag your way to a better society."
"... we have been conditioned for this moment ..."
"Derek Sloan, a Member of Parliament in Ontario, called the new requirement “absolute madness”."
"Facebook ... confirmed ... that protest organizers in California, New Jersey, and Nebraska were having their pages removed from Facebook at the request of state authorities."
"Amid conflicting interpretations of what is and is not banned under Whitmer’s order, Glei is one of many retailers of plants, seeds, and garden supplies in the state frustrated by the lack of guidance clarifying whether or not they can do business."
"... for some people, the fact that Twitter disapproves of the article provides more reason to check the article out."
"Got the message? Don’t question either the degree of danger coronavirus poses or whatever actions governments take in the name of countering coronavirus."
"... Got to kick at the darkness ‘til it bleeds daylight."
Trevor Phillips: “It was therefore only a matter of time before this ‘definition’ would inevitably lead to the persecution of individuals who dissented. I never imagined that I myself would be the first political victim of such a witch-hunt.”
“The cycle of fear and silence should not be accepted.”
“Offending somebody is now becoming something punishable by sacking or exclusion.”
"The big tech companies don’t want more government oversight, they simply want to continue to have their have their editorial take and enforce it too while taking your money and suppressing your voice."
"Gavin Williamson’s warning that universities are drinking in the last chance saloon offers vice-chancellors an opportunity to show that they are capable of self-reflection and robust intervention to maintain academe as a bastion of enlightenment values. If they cannot establish effective rules to defend speech, which they have conspicuously failed to do, then clearly someone else will have to do it for them."
"Qari Asim would like to have something like an Islamic blasphemy law."
“People must be able to speak their minds. If we don’t have free speech, we don’t have a free society.”
"...not one of the recipients of the Oscar gift bags worth $225,000 spoke out against that extraordinary excess nor demanded that the money spent purchasing these "gifts" be used to benefit the poor and the homeless. Nope, take the money and run."
"...Zuckerberg is a pawn. He’s neither the problem nor the solution. Soros is the problem..."
"Revd Graham has planned to preach the Gospel on an eight-venue tour between May and October."
"He also notes that "mass petitions have called for the dismissal or defunding of academics because of their research interests; on some occasions, universities have caved in to this pressure"."
"It’s what one would expect from a country that’s controlled by its billionaires."