I missed this piece in The Guardian a week or two back by Iceland’s Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a poet and politician (good for her!) who is opposed to current internet...
Read MoreOn 21 March, I’ll be appearing at Macquarie University on a panel about “Advancing Secularism in Australia” – along with Sean Faircloth, Max...
Read MoreThis (rather tendentious) article in The Guardian discusses the current initiatives in Iceland to ban certain kinds of online pornography. Before I go any further, let...
Read MoreSince I’ve spent a fair bit of time this week using the example of being pro-nudity but anti-prostitution to make a general philosophical point, let me also...
Read MoreOne of the oddities about The Harm in Hate Speech by Jeremy Waldron is the author’s attempt to support his case by drawing an analogy with the regulation of...
Read MoreI’m currently reading The Harm in Hate Speech by Jeremy Waldron. I won’t necessarily be out of sympathy with this book – I am a free speech advocate,...
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