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The paradox of cancel culture: A feature of free expression or a threat to it? - Biznews
It used to be that heretics, witches, and others who dissented from the orthodoxy of public opinion were executed. Later, they were ‘merely’ imprisoned. Today, ...
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Taboo debate: For better or worse after Apartheid? – Andrew Kenny - Biznews
Who spoke these words (very loudly) and on what occasion? “South Africa, as a country, was more functional during apartheid than it currently is … Love or hate ...
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Launch of the Free Speech Union South Africa
29 June 2022 - The Institute of Race Relations is proud to announce the formation of the Free Speech Union South Africa (FSU SA).
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Checked speech is the fundamental tool of unchecked power - Businesslive
15 May 2022 - Among the most wrong-headed observations of recent times is the jarring misstatement in a tweet by the Johannesburg bureau chief of The New York ...
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Musk and our twittering ADHD – Paddi Clay - Biznews
10 May 2022 - What fun and excitement we denizens of Twitter have been having with the richest man in the world buying the social media platform that many, ...
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Twittering about accountability – Vegter takes on The Left - Biznews
19 April 2022 - Elon Musk’s hostile takeover bid for social network Twitter has respectable left-wing professors clutching their pearls.
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No cause to fire teacher over political views - Newsi
11 June 2021 - It was probably bound to happen. The consequences of the latest round of the Israel-Gaza conflict (or whatever name one chooses to assign it) ...
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Exchanging views on difficult topics is not easy but far preferable to exchanging rocket fire - Businesslive
24 May 2021 - Relying on pet aphorisms can lead to lazy mental habits, but over the years I’ve found a few that have proved more dependable than most.
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Expose bad ideas; don’t stifle them - Businesslive
17 January 2021 - Of the two books I received as Christmas presents, I am well into Martin Amis’s unusual, thrillingly revelatory autobiographical novel Inside ...
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Letter: Getting it wrong on social media’s role - Businesslive
17 January 2021 - Your editorial referred to the “shock waves across the world” because of the attack on the US Capitol by mobs who had attended President ...
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