Connecting the Dots: Diane King, Videographer, Speaks of Free Speech Issues in the U.S. At CAFE Meeting, Toronto, 2017
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SILICON VALLEY CENSORS DROP 8CHAN & INTERFERE WITH PUBLIC’S RIGHT TO READ ALLEGED SHOOTERS’ MANIFESTOS
SILICON VALLEY CENSORS DROP 8CHAN & INTERFERE WITH PUBLIC’S RIGHT TO READ ALLEGED SHOOTERS’ MANIFESTOS
Security provider drops imageboard 8chan used to distribute El Paso & Christchurch manifestos
Published time: 5 Aug, 2019 06:51 Edited time: 5 Aug, 2019 12:13
Internet security company Cloudflare has dropped the unmoderated anonymous 8chan forum, which has become a source of hate-filled manifestos left by mass shooters, including the El Paso gunman.
In a blog post on Sunday, Cloudflare, which is based in San-Francisco, said it would discontinue its services to 8chan, an imageboard that has come under intense scrutiny for hosting several “manifestos” penned by mass shooters.
The company said it appears that the El Paso attacker posted his four-page “screed” to the site “immediately before beginning his terrifying attack on the El Paso Walmart killing 20 people.”
While 8chan’s role in the El Paso massacre was the last straw, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said it was a chain of events that forced the company to boot 8chan, one of which is the role the New Zealand mosque attack played in triggering the recent rampage.
\ “The El Paso shooter specifically referenced the Christchurch incident and appears to have been inspired by the largely unmoderated discussions on 8chan which glorified the previous massacre,” he wrote.
Prince argued that it does not matter whether or not 8chan violated any laws by allowing radical ideas to thrive on its platform; it was enough that they “have created an environment that revels in violating its spirit.”
“The rationale is simple: they have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths.”
It was still a hard decision for the company to make as it seeks to treat all of its 19 million customers without bias, but, according to Prince, 8chan crossed the line by “directly” inspiring the tragedy.
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Prince said that Cloudfare seeks to shield itself from public outrage, adding that the move will not solve the bigger problem of sites propagating violence. The company’s decision to dump the white nationalist site Daily Stormer two years ago did not lead to its demise, but on the contrary, only fired up its base, he noted.
“I have little doubt we’ll see the same happen with 8chan. While removing 8chan from our network takes heat off of us, it does nothing to address why hateful sites fester online. It does nothing to address why mass shootings occur.”
He argued that it’s ultimately not up to a private company to decide “what content is good and bad” and how it should be handled, and called on the government to step up its role in internet regulation.
Journalist Christie Blatchford Wins the George Jonas Freedom Award for 2019
Journalist Christie Blatchford Wins the George Jonas Freedom Award for
TORONTO. June 14, 2019. Paul Fromm, the Director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression, hails her as “the best courtroom reporter in Canada.” Some months back, she wrote a brilliant piece eviscerating the Kinsellas, Warren and Lisa, who have been tormenters of the satirical tabloid YOUR WARD NEWS, and were in the process of losing an “uttering threats” case against editor Dr. James Sears.
Tonight, Christie Blatchford became the second recipient of the George Jonas Freedom Award at a dinner in midtown Toronto sponsored by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.
Centre Director John Carpay warned: “Political correctness in Canada has gone too far. Freedoms can be enshrined in a constitution but they must be enshrined in our hearts. Freedom is under serious attack in Canada today.” And, he concluded, “the biggest danger is not to realize we are in a war to destroy society from within.”
Introducing winner Christie Blatchford was Marie Henein who had just beaten the federal government to a standstill in the case of Vice Admiral Mark Norman.The Crown had been shamed into withdrawing the charges after putting the admiral through years of legal and financial hell.
“Christie is unmanageable,” Henein praised. “In four decades in our courts, sometimes at high personal cost, she has provided a critical, informed and reasoned view of our justice system. Christie, you are a barometer of what many of us should be thinking about in our legal work.”
Accepting the award, Miss Blatchford, who now writes for the National Post, mentioned pro-life campaigner “Linda Gibbons who has done a total of 11 years in jail for carrying s small sign opposing abortion” outside Toronto abortion clinics.
And, she added, “I’m concerned about difficulties in getting bail. Also, the “#me too” movement is a genuine threat.” Human rights hearings, she warned, “are unbearably unfair.” On a sombre note, she concluded her acceptance asking, “which of our federal leaders will defend free speech? None of the above.”
What Sort of Man Seeks to Have Another Fired, His livelihood Imperilled & He and His Family reduced to Poverty?
What Sort of Man Seeks to Have Another Fired, His livelihood Imperilled & He and His Family reduced to Poverty?
Indeed, what sort of man seeks to have another fired, his livelihood imperilled and he and his family reduced to poverty? And all because of the victim’s political beliefs at one time expressed on his own time and on his own time. What sort of driven man would do such a thing? Why, a person who describes himself as an Ottawa-based “human rights lawyer”. That would be federal civil servant Richard Warman. Warman seems to find immense time to try to ruin people with whom he disagrees politically.
In the glory days of Sec. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act (Internet censorship), Warman filed nearly 30 complaints. He boasts, in his affidavit seeking a peace bond against Kevin Goudreau, who has never contacted him”,” I have successfully brought 16 human rights complaints against online hate … resulting in permanent cease and desist orders.” Also, many of the victims were fined and two — Terry Tremaine and Thomas Winnicki — ended up spending time in prison because of Mr. Warman’s actions. More recently in attacking anti-Cultural Marxist satirical publication YOUR WARD NEWS, Warman, who lives in Ottawa, contacted Child Protective Services in Toronto, according to testimony at a recent trial, to try to get editor Dr. Sears’ son taken away. [An investigation found that Dr. Sears and his wife were loving parents.]
So, while snowflake Richard Warman whines about being so afraid of his political enemies, he relentlessly seeks to have them destroyed. In a July 16 letter he wrote on behalf of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network to Hamilton City Council, Warman who works for the federal government (when does he find time to do all this mischief?) seeks to have Mr. Lemire fired for his political views. Mr. Lemire was the longtime webmaster of the Freedomsite and was the subject of a Warman Sec. 13 complaint which Mr. Lemire partially won.
The letter filled with the false “neo-Nazi” smear, reads as follows: “I am a human rights lawyer in Ottawa and brought the successful human rights complaint against Marc Lemire for online hate (http://canlii.ca/t/1q60s). I have commented in numerous media stories about the recent exposure by Mack Lamoureux of VICE Canada that Marc Lemire is an employee of the City of Hamilton. I note that since the VICE article, various media reports have indicated that Marc Lemire denies any ongoing role in the neo-Nazi[sic] movement, minimizes any prior role despite Federal Court findings to the contrary, and claims that this was all many years in the past and that he is now reformed.
I do not believe this to be true. Marc Lemire openly acknowledges that he is responsible for the website http://www.freedomsite.org/. It took me less than 5-minutes to come up with multiple examples of Holocaust denial material from Marc Lemire’s Freedomsite website that remain available as of right now. Marc Lemire continues to publish to the world columns by Holocaust denier Philip Belgrave and others and at the bottom of the columns readers are invited to submit material to the webmaster (Lemire) for publication. The first article is titled “What is Anti-Semitism?” and states that Jews were not exterminated nor were they the principal sufferers in WWII, links to Ernst Zundel’s
Holocaust denial website calling it a “Detoxification Programme to Cure the Politically Correct of the Hollywood version of the Holocaust”, and links to 3 other Holocaust denial websites – URL link below and pdf version attached: ….
I am confident that if I continued my search, I would find further such hate propaganda. Based on the fact that Holocaust denial material remains available on Marc Lemire’s website, I submit to you that he is not fit to be an employee of the City of Hamilton.”
It might be noted that, even in Canada, questioning the so-called holocaust is not a crime, and, far from being “hate”, is, in fact pursuit of the truth.
Your Ward News hate case put over to Aug. 22; judge delays sentencing
Your Ward News hate case put over to Aug. 22; judge delays sentencing
TORONTO — A Toronto editor found guilty in January of promoting hatred against women and Jews was given more time on Thursday to say why he believes his lawyer threw the case.
In addition, Ontario court Judge Richard Blouin gave James Sears, who is looking to reopen his trial, two weeks to come up with a list of proposed witnesses and a summary of what evidence they might offer.
“I’ve never done or seen one of these applications,” Blouin said of the bid to reopen the trial. “It’s an unusual procedure. One we’re all working our way through.”
Blouin also put off sentencing for LeRoy St. Germaine, 77, publisher of Your Ward News, who was found guilty along with Sears.
The judge has been pressing St. Germaine, who has Metis background, to agree to a sentencing circle — a form of mediation in which a wrongdoer engages with their victims, in this case women and members of the Jewish community.
St. Germaine’s lawyer suggested his client was open to the concept — but not if he had to go into the mediation with apologies up front.
“The whole terms of reference might be a sticking point,” Blouin acknowledged. “(But) skilled facilitators have a way of getting to things over time.”
Blouin was insistent that a facilitated discussion of strongly opposed views in a “controlled, thoughtful arena” would be a good thing. He gave until Aug. 22 to come up with a plan or, he said, he would simply continue with sentencing St. Germaine.
For his part, Sears, 55, failed to produce a sworn affidavit Thursday as the judge had asked on why he felt his trial lawyer, Dean Embry, had deliberately blown the case.
Sears fired Embry, who denies any wrongdoing, after sentencing submissions in April. The editor claims he wanted to call defence witnesses but the lawyer refused.
“Mr. Sears hasn’t provided an affidavit on ineffective assistance of counsel,” Blouin said. “That needs to be done immediately.”
Blouin gave Sears until Aug. 8 to provide the sworn statement. The affidavit, as well as one from Embry, would be crucial in deciding whether to reopen the trial, the judge said.
“I would think, given the allegations against him, that Mr. Embry would want to respond,” Blouin said.
“There is no evidence whatsoever on the record to support the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel,” prosecutor Robin Flumerfelt said.
“I’m absorbing all this,” Sears said. “I’m not a lawyer.”
Sears, who also failed to provide a list of proposed witnesses, complained about finding experts, saying it’s hard to get in touch with academics during August. Sears said he expected to come up with an expert in satire and English.
The judge, who is retiring at the end of the month, was unmoved, saying the proceedings have dragged on long enough. He gave Sears until Aug. 15 to say who he would call to testify, their qualifications, and how their evidence would affect the case.
Sears and St. Germaine were responsible for Your Ward News, a free publication court heard was distributed to more than 300,000 homes and businesses in the Toronto area and available online. The publication consistently portrayed women and Jews in beyond ugly terms.
The Crown wants a total one-year jail term for Sears and six months for St. Germaine.
The case returns to court Aug. 22.
Jim and Diane discuss latest holocaust happenings this time the Florida principal and his holocaust issues, July 24, 2019
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Tulsi Gabbard sues Google for suspending her ads after first Dem debate
Tulsi Gabbard sues Google for suspending her ads after first Dem debate
July 26, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – While most of the voices accusing tech giants of political discrimination are conservative, some left-of-center figures have been caught up in the controversy as well, including 2020 Democrat presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard.
Gabbard, a congresswoman from Hawaii, announced Thursday that she’s suing Google for suspending her campaign’s Google Ads account for several hours after the first Democrat primary debate.
The New York Times reported that following the debate, Gabbard was “briefly” the most-searched presidential candidate on Google, and the campaign wanted to seize that momentum with some ad buys, but found their account suspended.
“For hours, Tulsi’s campaign advertising account remained offline while Americans everywhere were searching for information about her,” Gabbard’s campaign charged. “During this time, Google obfuscated and dissembled with a series of inconsistent and incoherent reasons for its actions. In the end, Google never explained to us why Tulsi’s account was suspended.”
The campaign gave the Times emails indicating that Google initially suspended them for “problems with billing information or violations of our advertising policies,” then sent a notice several hours later reinstating the account and claiming the temporary suspension was meant to verify billing information and compliance with Google’s policies.
Google spokesman Jose Castaneda told the Times that the company’s automated systems, which are designed to catch “unusual” activity such as large spending changes, “triggered a suspension,” but “the account was reinstated shortly thereafter.”
“Google’s discriminatory actions against my campaign are reflective of how dangerous their complete dominance over internet search is, and how the increasing dominance of big tech companies over our public discourse threatens our core American values,” Gabbard declared in a statement. “This is a threat to free speech, fair elections and to our democracy, and I intend to fight back on behalf of all Americans.”
The lawsuit seeks an injunction against Google engaging in further election interference and a minimum of $50 million in damages. It also alleges that her campaign emails found their way into Gmail spam folders at “a disproportionately high rate” compared with those from other Democrat primary campaigns.
Gabbard has drawn some interest for ostensibly being more moderate than the rest of the Democrat field. As recently as 2004, she opposed same-sex “marriage,” but is now a doctrinaire liberal on abortion, LGBT issues, and even decriminalizing prostitution.
Since the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, Google has been under fire for allegedly intensifying efforts to slant their platforms and services in favor of Trump’s opponents and other left-wing causes in a variety of ways, including blacklists, biased algorithms, and more. Concerns have also been raised that figures within Google and other tech companies have been “subverted” by foreign governments.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai told Congress last month that he considers “unregulated Silicon Valley tech giants” today’s “greatest threat to a free and open internet.” Earlier this month, Trump announced that he was “directing my administration to explore all regulatory and legislative solutions to tech censorship.” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, has proposed legislation that would require social media platforms to certify their political neutrality with the FCC if they want to keep their congressionally granted immunity from legal liability for what they allow users to post.
People’s Party of Canada Will Repeal Much of the “Hate Law” — Sec. 319 of the Criminal Code & Law Giving Special Privileges to the Transgendered (C-16)
Issue
The rights of Canadians to freely hold and express beliefs are being eroded at an alarming speed under the Trudeau government. Some of its recent decisions even require that Canadians renounce their most deeply held moral convictions and express opinions they disagree with.
In 2018, the Liberal government denied summer job funding to organizations, including charities, that would not sign an attestation supporting abortion. It also passed bill C-16 as part of a trend to force Canadians to express support for the existence of various gender identities beyond the biological categories of male and female, and to use pronouns demanded by those who identify with these other genders.
In addition to these assaults on conscience, the government launched a series of regulatory attacks on free speech on the internet and is pressuring social media companies, which are already censoring speech that isn’t politically correct, to crack down even more. It is also considering bringing back Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. This hate speech provision was repealed by the Conservative government in 2013 because it was being used arbitrarily to censor statements that offended some people on the internet.
In what appears to be a first step towards restricting our right to criticize some religions, it adopted M-103, a motion that condemns religious discrimination but only specifically mentions one religion, Islam, and without defining the term “islamophobia.”
Finally, on university campuses, a growing number of faculty and administrators—those who should be fighting for open debate of controversial ideas—have become aggressive advocates for censorship.
Facts
History and social scientific research show that freedom of conscience and freedom of expression, when maximally protected, advance the intellectual life of a nation, foster greater ideological diversity and societal understanding, and nurture other freedoms necessary for a successful democracy.
This is why Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees citizens freedom of conscience and religion, as well as freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.
Our Plan
What some people find politically incorrect, offensive or even hateful cannot serve as the legal basis for discrimination and censorship. Canadians should be able to enjoy maximum freedom of conscience and expression as guaranteed in Section 2 of the Charter.
A People’s Party Government will:
- Restrict the definition of hate speech in the Criminal Code to expression which explicitly advocates the use of force against identifiable groups or persons based on protected criteria such as religion, race, ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation.
- Repeal any existing legislation or regulation curtailing free speech on the internet and prevent the reinstatement of section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
- Repeal C-16 and M-103.
- Ensure that Canadians can exercise their freedom of conscience to its fullest extent as it is intended under the Charter and are not discriminated against because of their moral convictions.
- Withhold federal funding from any post-secondary institution shown to be violating the freedom of expression of its students or faculty.
Terrible Decision By Conservatives To Remove Salim Mansur Creates New Opening For Bernier
Terrible Decision By Conservatives To Remove Salim Mansur Creates New Opening For Bernier
Surrendering to pressure from the Liberal elites will only encourage more pressure. They can never be appeased.
Salim Mansur is a devout Canadian Muslim who has courageously spoke out against radical Islamism.
Mansur is a highly-respected professor, and has even been invited by Conservatives to testify on Parliament Hill about the threat of radical Islamism.
Mansur won the nomination to be the Conservative candidate in the riding of London North-Centre.
However, the Conservative Party has since disqualified him from running – without even letting party members in the area decide.
“I’m disappointed with CPC disallowing my candidacy, yet hopeful conservatives will persevere. I’ll have more to say about this & my role in 2019 election. Thanks to all for love & support. This setback won’t derail me to help rescue our Canada from Islamism & Globalism.”
He was told in an email that his candidacy was ‘disallowed.’
According to a report by Andrew Lawton for the True North Centre, “No reason was provided in the email, but Mansur told me in a brief interview that Conservative leader Andrew Scheer’s campaign manager, Hamish Marshall, advised him last week of the party’s concerns with Mansur’s past writing and public speaking on Islamism and the politics of radical Muslims, which Marshall said will likely be portrayed by Liberals and others as Islamophobic, and become disruptive to the party’s national campaign.”
If that is the reason, it’s a disgrace.
The whole point of being a leader is having the ability to persuade people and push back against falsehoods. So, if the Liberals call Mansur ‘Islamophobic’ (which is obviously absurd considering that Mansur is himself Muslim), then Scheer should simply push back and say “Mansur is a proud Canadian-Muslim who is fighting against extremism and terrorism.”
Then, Scheer should put Trudeau on the defensive by saying “Justin Trudeau must answer for his association with people like Joshua Boyle, Trudeau must answer for his plan to let ISIS terrorists back into our country, and Trudeau must explain why the Liberals are attacking a courageous Canadian Muslim instead of fighting against the anti-LGBT, anti-women agenda of radical Islamists.”
It would be so easy to put the Liberals on the defensive and stand up for Mansur.
But instead, the Conservatives simply booted him.
It’s weakness, and that weakness will only encourage more attacks from the Liberals.
As Cosmin Dzsurdzsa wrote in the Post Millennial, “The Conservatives will be accused of Islamophobia either way. There really is no way around it. In fact, the Liberals will likely pull out their full arsenal of phobias to fling at Conservatives. This decision won’t mitigate the persistence or the frequency of such smears. It should be clear from the recent elections in Alberta and before that in Ontario, that the left will invent reasons to accuse their opponents of all sorts of vile things if they can’t find any readily available. For the CPC to think that this might save them a headache is just naivete or self-delusion.”
This move sends a dangerous message to brave Canadian Muslims who are speaking out against extremism. If even Canada’s top Conservative party won’t stand up for them, then who will?
It’s demoralizing for the Conservative Base, and it’s a massive mistake.
It also creates an opening for People’s Party Leader Maxime Bernier.
While Bernier has been struggling in the polls as his party gets off the ground, the Conservatives’ rejection of Mansur plays exactly into what he’s been saying about some Conservatives being far too willing to bow down to Liberal-style political correctness.
Here’s what Bernier said on Twitter:
“The Tories have rejected the candidacy of highly respected Prof. @SalimMansurLNC, a critic of islamism, for fear of being called islamophobic by Liberals. Can you trust Andrew Scheer to defend Canadian values? Is he willing to do *anything* to gain power?”
There will certainly be some justifiably-angry Conservatives who will consider the People’s Party more now because of the brutal error of getting rid of Mansur.
The Conservatives under Scheer have gotten many things right, particularly their willingness to confront Communist China, build up our military, and reverse Trudeau’s destructive and unity-destroying economic policies.
That said, their lack of toughness and fear of attacks led them to meekly surrender to the Liberals and remove Mansur and that mistake could cost them votes at Election time.
Canada needs people like Salim Mansur in our political leadership.
As a result, the decision must be reversed, and the Conservatives need to adopt the attitude of simply focusing all their attacks and attention on Trudeau’s pathetic and dangerous failures, rather than surrendering to the sickness of political correctness.
Spencer Fernando
Salim Mansur Introduces Maxime Bernier & Thunders “Free Speech is the Mother of Our Freedoms”
Salim Mansur Introduces Maxime Bernier & Thunders “Free Speech is the Mother of Our Freedoms”
MISSISSAUGA, July 24, 2019. Before an enthusiastic crowd that frequently leapt to its feet applauding, Salim Mansur delivered a ringing defence of free speech as he introduced People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier who unveiled his party’s immigration programme.
“Free speech in the mother of all freedoms,” the retired associate professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario thundered. “There is a crisis of courage in Ottawa,” the author of several books critical of radical Islam argued.
“Until a few weeks ago, I was the Conservative candidate for London North Centre. On June 10, I was informed that the party leadership had disallowed my candidacy. There were no reasons given. There was no hearing. Apparently, the party leadership viewed me as a liability because of my criticism if Islamism. My candidacy was disallowed due to political correctness.” The first person to call offering his support was Maxime Bernier, an old friend, who promptly asked him to be the People’s Party of Canada candidate in London North Centre.
“Our political system has turned into an empty shell full of politically correct slogans,” he said. Today, the views of Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Louis St. Laurent and John Diefenbaker are disallowed as politically incorrect by our leaders. “We will not accept these measures by those who would censor us, Freedom of speech is the foundation of our liberal democratic society. Under Maxime Bernier’s leadership, freedom of speech will be the first order of business.”
A practising Moslem himself, Professor Mansur warned that, in efforts to appease the Muslim Brotherhood, Justin Trudeau seeks to censor any criticism of Islamism. Globalism and Islamism are like Siamese twins. Islamism is dedicated to imposing sharia law. Globalism is the ideology emanating from the UN and the European Union.” If globalism and Islamism prevail over our Canadian national identity, “we will be ruled by shadowy unelected ideologues in New York, Brussels and Geneva.”
Furthermore, he warned: “We cannot discuss immigration or national security, if we cannot discuss Islamism.” Concluding to wild applause, Professor Mansur said: “The People’s Party of Canada is the only party to resolutely oppose globalism and Islamism and the UN-driven globalist agenda.”