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Originally created to automate tasks, analyze data and improve efficiency and accuracy in various applications, an adverse effect of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is silencing voices within the firearm industry. Firearm news sites and gun blogs have reported a decline in readership traffic due to several factors, one of which being search platforms using AI to divert traffic from independent…

Sam Harris’ Defense of Censorship Reveals Liberals’ True Contempt for Democracy

by Keaton Weiss “Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement – I would not have cared.” Believe it or not, that’s actually the least controversial thing Sam Harris said in a recently released clip from his appearance on the “Triggernometry” podcast. He followed that up by asserting that “Whatever [the] scope of Joe Biden’s corruption is, if we can just go down…

A Very Short Fact:On this day in 1960, Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.

“Perhaps the most important case in which an artistic defence was used was the Lady Chatterley trial in the United Kingdom. This trial, which took place in 1960, was to determine whether or not D. H. Lawrence’s novel could be published in Britain or should remain banned under the Obscene Publications Act. More than fifty expert witnesses were called to testify to the literary merits of the book, including E. M. Forster, Raymond Williams, and Richard Hoggart. By general consensus, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is far from Lawrence’s best book, but the witnesses made a good case for its literary merits, conscious that they were defending a writer’s freedom to express his view of life as much as defending a particular book. The book, with its repeated use of the word ‘fuck’ and detailed description of adultery, was certainly potentially offensive to many readers. The test for obscenity, though, was that it would corrupt and deprave readers. The judge in the case ruled that the book could be published (but not before asking the jury whether they thought they’d be happy for their servants to read it).”

[p. 73-74, Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction by Nigel Warburton]

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New article about the recent journalist strike against censorship at Southern Weekly, China.

Ignoring the fact that the title is ridiculous as are some of the assumptions in the article, like the opening "Western democracies, which are not typically associated with censorship, have demanded thatGoogle take down certain political videos, blog posts, and other content, the company said Sunday."

Here is an excerpt, lest we forget what hypocrisy we live in: