Perth: OnlyFans star defends massive billboard advertisement

She makes some pretty good points about freedom below

In what is understood to be an Australian first, Savannah – also known as WC Savage – currently has herself displayed across a super-sized billboard near an intersection in the Perth suburb of Osborne Park.

The advertisement, which shows her posed in a bikini at Coogee Beach, includes links and a QR code to her OnlyFans, which hosts her adult content.

The billboard has reportedly irritated businesses and parents, with local media reporting the council, the City of Stirling, and Savannah herself were coping with the brunt of their complaints.

Despite this, Savannah says the billboard stays unless she is ordered otherwise.

“Obviously, people are concerned about children seeing this picture of me in a bikini at the beach, which I think is a little far-fetched,” she told Perth’s 6PR.

“But each to their own. Obviously, the fact that OnlyFans is an adult content-creating website that caters to adult entertainment.”

According to reports in Western Australian media, the majority of complaints stemmed from children following the links or the QR code on the billboard. One went as far as to label the ploy, “insane”.

But Savannah rubbished any suggestion children would be able to “stumble” upon her explicit content.

“OnlyFans actually have layers of protection to stop underage people from accessing the site,” she explained. “You need to have your licence. You need to have a credit card even just to access the free site.”

Savannah also said what other’s children do online is not her responsibility.

“If young teenagers are scanning this QR code, then there should be parental blocks in place placed by their parents on their iPhones, tablets and computers and things like that, to stop them from being able to access sites like this and other sites that do create explicit content,” she argued.

“That’s what my parents did when I was younger. I know that schools do that their computer access and things like that. “I really do believe that that’s the responsibility of the parents.”

Local mayor Mark Irwin told 7NEWS it was out of the council’s hands, with its fate ultimately in the hands of the billboard’s owner. “Content and editorial control of what is displayed on the billboard is a decision made by a private entity,” he said.

As for a windfall from the billboard? Savannah said the approach, believed the be the first in Australia, is “doing really well”. “I obviously, have tried all different types of marketing over the years of being in the adult entertainment industry,” she said.

“I’ve tried all different types of marketing. This is something that has never been done before in Australia by an OnlyFans content creator, and very few people around the world have actually done this.”

Savannah offered some food for thought in her parting words.

“Honestly, if a picture of a young woman in a bikini is the worst thing that your children are going to see today, I really feel like we should be kind of grateful and have some perspective,” she said.

“There are so many worse things out there that the children could be seeing and experiencing than a young woman in a bikini at the beach.”

“Everyone has their right to feel how they feel, and have the opinion that they have, and if people want to complain, then I can’t stop them.”

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/teens/perth-onlyfans-star-defends-massive-billboard-advertisement/news-story/4e522c656a0cdc80aa8e3af3da59dd69

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More excitement about the past

Google have just deleted one of my posts from 25 February, 2003.  Yes 2003, not 2023.  It was about that  dreaded topic: IQ.  You can still read a copy of the  post at

http://jonjayray.com/feb03.html  

Just scroll down to 25th.  One of the references in it is still online here:

http://www.douance.org/qi/brandtgf.html

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Bakery removes hot cross from ‘Easter Time buns’

Sherlock was aghast when he found a local bakery in Brisbane’s inner west had decided to remove the ‘hot cross’ from its buns and label them ‘Easter Time buns’. “This is just another case of woke madness removing the name hot cross buns,” he says.

“This wouldn’t have happened in my time at Brumby’s. You can’t have Easter without hot cross buns. They’ve been synonymous with Easter celebrations since the 12th century in England.”

Sherlock, Sentinel’s chief experience officer, says the Group’s CEO Warren Ebert and the Sentinel staff will be celebrating their Easter morning tea in the Brisbane CBD office on Thursday with many hot cross buns

https://www.couriermail.com.au/lifestyle/brisbane-bakery-removes-hot-cross-from-easter-time-buns/news-story/47ffe40af0dcc51d3d933f73d7562674

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Disney fans BLAST 'woke-sensitive' Little Mermaid song rewrites

Disney fans are not happy that the company is changing the lyrics to some classic Little Mermaid songs for its upcoming live-action remake.

The new version of the animated classic, which is set to hit theaters on May 26 and will star Halle Bailey as the iconic mermaid, is going to feature different lines for the tracks Kiss the Girl and Poor Unfortunate Souls, composer Alan Menken revealed earlier this week.

He explained to Vanity Fair that they made 'some lyric' changes to Kiss the Girl after people became upset over the 'idea that Prince Eric would force himself on Ariel,' and that they 'revised' the parts of Poor Unfortunate Souls 'that might make young girls somehow feel that they shouldn’t speak out of turn.'

During the latter song, the evil sea witch Ursula is trying to convince Ariel to trade her voice for human legs. She sings: 'The men up there don't like a lot of blabber. 'They think a girl who gossips is a bore. Yet, on land it's much preferred for ladies not to say a word.'

She also says that 'she who holds her tongue get's a man' and that 'true gentlemen avoid conversation when they can.'

However, people on the web are outraged over the changes, with some pointing out that Ursula's statements are a very important part of the plotline.

'The whole point of that section of Poor Unfortunate Souls was for Ursula to lower Ariel's self esteem and manipulate her into giving her voice, without that part of the song Ariel will just accept giving up her voice with less manipulation from Ursula?' asked one person.

Someone else wrote: 'It makes sense that the villain say those things. Maybe instead of changing the lyrics, teach kids to think and reflect about those topic so they can develop critical thinking.'

'Ursula was trying to convince and manipulate Ariel into thinking the solution she is offering is the best,' another user pointed out.

'It's supposed to be awful and wrong. I watched this movie 100 times as a kid and it never made me feel like I couldn't speak up or express myself around a man.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11947433/Disney-fans-slam-woke-sensitive-Little-Mermaid-song-lyric-rewrites.html

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When "petrochemicals" is a naughty word

When the federal government confirmed a $1.5 billion funding commitment for a new industrial hub near Darwin Harbour late last year, it was hailed as a "pathway towards decarbonisation".

But the promise of renewable hydrogen, critical minerals and carbon capture and storage also included another industry — petrochemicals.

So after green groups mounted a campaign against the Middle Arm Sustainable Development Precinct, the NT government hatched its own strategic response.

It removed the term "petrochemicals" from official websites about the project, as reported by the ABC last year.

At the time, it was not known which department was involved in the decision to scrub out the term, nor what was being said internally about the deletion.

But emails obtained by the ABC have confirmed staff in the Department of Chief Minister and Cabinet were tasked with removing the references from more than a dozen government websites.

This was despite the fact the government continues to seek approval from the NT Environment Protection Authority (NTEPA) for "low emission petrochemicals" to be among the mix of industries at Middle Arm.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-06/middle-arm-nt-petrochemicals-term-deletion-chief-minister-staff/102157920

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Google censorship again

Once aqain it is a very old post, from 2012

They have deleted The post:

http://awesternheart.blogspot.com/2012/02/breivik-salute.html.

Which appeared under the heading 'The Breivik salute'

It still appears in a couple of other places.  Try  this one

http://jonjayray.com/short/salute.html

It does tell some pesky truths.  Google call it "hate speech"

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TikTok bans

A gross invasion of free speech. Even banning it on government devices is dubious and and a wider ban would undoubtedly fall foul of SCOTUS. The fact that is is Chinese-owned seems to be the problem for legislators. Sounds racist to me. Racism and paranoia generally go together. For once, AOC speaks sense

TikTok can't seem to catch a break. For years, the app has operated under the distant threat of a nationwide ban or forced sale. Now, mounting security and privacy concerns are prompting lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to debate its future.

Last week, the short-form video platform with 150 million active users in the U.S. made headlines amid a highly publicized congressional hearing that brought TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew face to face with some of his toughest critics. Five palpably tense hours of questioning illuminated very little about what, if anything, Chew can do to quell lawmakers' fears. Earlier this month, the Biden administration reportedly delivered an ultimatum to the app's Chinese parent company, ByteDance: Sell their shares in TikTok to an American company or accept the ban as punishment. Multiple pieces of legislation empowering Biden to enact such a ban have been introduced.

The implication, of course, is that Chinese ownership poses an existential threat to American democracy by putting our personal data and our recommendations algorithms within the Chinese government's grasp. ByteDance has been credibly accused of surveilling at least two American journalists last year. But having an American tech company handle your data doesn't inherently make it safer. Facebook brought one of the biggest tech scandals of the 2010s stateside by allowing a British political consulting firm to intercede in the 2016 presidential election.

TikTok is in the regulatory hot seat right now. The app is already banned from all government-issued devices, as well as state-owned devices in more than half of the country. Several universities have gone so far as to block TikTok from campus Wifi networks and a host of other countries are enforcing partial or total bans of their own.

But the platform has the tide of public favor to buoy it. As Congress grilled and interrupted Chew throughout his testimony, the internet mocked lawmakers for being out of touch. Tweets confessing to feeling thirsty for the embattled CEO went viral. Dozens of creators gathered on Capitol Hill in a show of support for the platform. And Janette Ok, the lifestyle influencer behind @inmyseams, was among them.

“Each of these platforms have magic to them," Ok tells Glamour. "And the magic of TikTok is the ability to create community and to feel seen and heard by those that you don't even know. More than any other social media platform, TikTok gives the user the opportunity to become the creator. No other app allows the creator to film a video, chop it up, add music, make transitions, but do all that stuff within the single app. That revolutionized social media as a whole landscape.”

That doesn't mean TikTok is irreplaceable, Ok says. At the end of the day, she's not a TikTok creator—she's a content creator. But TikTok, with its built-in editing software and extensive audio library, had a special way of convincing regular people to experiment with and participate in creator culture.

“What we're going to lose is the opportunity to be curious," Ok says. "When I started on TikTok, I felt like I was following a formula for my Instagram feed. I was literally planning my grid. I was planning a neutral aesthetic. I was using the same filters. I was really trying to gain a following by copying somebody else's aesthetics. On TikTok, it really challenged me to figure out what it meant to be myself.”

V Spehar, the TikTok creator behind “Under the Desk News,” says that after attending the hearing they feel “more confident now than ever that a ban is not on the table.” But the bill Biden is “very in favor” of passing—also known as the Restrict Act—could set a dangerous precedent for government overreach and censorship. (Which are, ironically, the very threats to national security lawmakers hope to mitigate with this measure.)

“Congress is trying to use fear of a potential for an adversary to convince the American public to hand over a huge amount of control of all of their privacy to the government,” Spehar says. “They're going to give themselves the power to ban any technology or any potential threat that they deem vaguely unsafe…They're using this TikTok ban and xenophobia as a Trojan horse to get this bill across the line here, which just gives them incredible power. They don't care about TikTok because they don't understand it.”

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is one of a scant number lawmakers who have chosen to support TikTok. In a post, the progressive Democrat warned against taking drastic measures before without evidence that they're necessary. Members of Congress, she says, have not been briefed on any national security threats stemming from the platform.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/how-the-tiktok-ban-is-forcing-creators-to-pivot-or-not/ar-AA19q9Cg

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IRS political intimidation of journalist Matt Taibbi ‘a direct attack on the First Amendment rights of all citizens’

Americans for Limited Government president Richard Manning comments on the IRS making a visit to Twitter files journalist Matt Taibbi’s home on March 9th, the day he testified before Congress on the weaponization of social media platforms:

“The attempts at political intimidation by the Biden administration continues to astound in its brazenness.  Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi found himself looking at one of the most direct weapons in the federal government’s war chest when an IRS agent showed up at this home unannounced the very day he testified to the House Judiciary Committee about social media platform weaponization.

“While the IRS abuses of the early 2010s seemed to be in the rearview mirror, this visit by the IRS shows that the agency is not chastened at all due to Congress’ admonitions and civil court settlements over its previous abuses.  After all, the Pelosi-Schumer Congress rewarded the IRS with 87000 new armed employees and they have to do something. Visiting citizens who have the audacity to exercise their first amendments rights of speech, the press, and to petition Congress seems like a logical action by an administration that aggressively sought to compel social media platforms to censor their political adversaries in a direct attack on the First Amendment rights of all citizens.

“It is clear that the Biden administration is no longer even trying to hide their gross abuses of power. The partisan American intelligence apparatus is clearly emboldened by the lack of any accountability for their conducting a three year partisan Russian collusion witch hunt designed to take down a president of the United States. The minute the perpetrators of the Russian collusion lie faced no consequences, opened the door for other abuses and intimidation.

“It is time for Congress to say enough is enough. When the House votes on the IRS budget, the 87000 new positions created should be eliminated immediately, and the FBI’s planned new building should be scrapped.  The Taibbi incident should be the last straw for members of Congress on both sides of the aisle who wish to restore the concept of ‘equal justice under the law.’ Congress must hit these rogue agencies in the wallet to send a message that continued abuses will not be tolerated.”

https://getliberty.org/2023/03/irs-political-intimidation-of-journalist-matt-taibbi-a-direct-attack-on-the-first-amendment-rights-of-all-citizens/

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No free speech in Ukraine

A Ukrainian court has ordered a leading Orthodox priest who is accused by authorities of condoning Russia's invasion to be put under house arrest.

Metropolitan Pavel, the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, Ukraine's most revered Orthodox site, has denied the charges.

After the court's ruling, a monitoring bracelet was placed around his ankle, despite his objections that he has diabetes and should not wear it. The house arrest was to last two months.

"I am accepting this," he said shortly before the bracelet was attached. "Christ was crucified on the cross, so why shouldn't I accept this?"

In the latest move in a bitter dispute over a famed Orthodox monastery, Ukraine's top security agency notified Father Pavel that he was suspected of justifying Russia's aggression, a criminal offence.

Father Pavel has resisted the authorities' order to vacate the complex. Earlier in the week, he cursed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, threatening him with damnation.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-02/orthodox-priest-ukraine-house-arrest/102176766

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Google censorship continues

I reproduce below the latest message from them.  It is again from way back and about a long forgotten issue.  The post was an excerpt from an article by Pat Buchanan, which is still online



Your post entitled 'The motives of "Deep Throat": Mark Felt' has been put behind a warning for readers

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UPDATE: They have just put another old post behind a warning -- A post under the heading "Capital punishment, free healthcare and Vermin of all sorts". It is here:

http://awesternheart.blogspot.com/2008/08/capital-punishment-free-healthcare-and.html

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A symphony of disgust

Mark Latham was called  "disgusting" by a homosexual man.  In reply to the insult Latham described a homosexual act and called such acts "disgusting".  But the disgust did not end there.  Latham has been called disgusting by all and sundry for describing what male homosexuals do.

A rather overlooked point however is what the condemnation of Latham implies.  What he described was called disgusting. That surely implies that homosexual acts are disgusting.  Many would agree with that.  But their condemnation of Latham surely implies that his critics too regard homosexual acts as disgusting.  Did they really mean to let that cat out of the bag?


One Nation's Mark Latham under fire for homophobic tweet.
Mark Latham's second controversy over LGBT issues in as many weeks has caused a split in One Nation, with federal senator Pauline Hanson admonishing his remarks as "disgusting".

Mr Latham, the One Nation leader in NSW, posted and deleted a graphic and homophobic tweet, directed at comments by Independent MP Alex Greenwich, on Thursday.

It has sparked widespread condemnation, including from within his party, and comes just 10 days after queer activists were allegedly bashed outside one of his pre-election speeches.

Ms Hanson, the federal senator and One Nation leader, said Mr Latham was not returning her calls last night.

"I want you to know that I don't condone them [the comments], and neither do my members of parliament or party associates," Ms Hanson said in a video statement.

"I think they are disgusting.

"I have actually tried to ring Mark a couple of times, to no avail … and also I've asked him to give the people an apology."

Mr Greenwich said he was not expecting an apology and that he planned not to engage with the matter further.

"We know that some people seek to target the LGBTQ community to get attention, I don't intend to help them with that," he said.

"When you're in public office, and public life, as an openly, proud gay man, you're going to get targeted.

"But I focus more on the majority of people across the state who love, support and celebrate the LGBTQ community."

He later posted a tweet of his own, showing a picture of him with husband Victor Hoeld.

"For those wondering how I'm doing after Latham's homophobic attacks today, I'm fine and I'm more motivated than ever to deliver long overdue LGBTIQA+ reforms … and I have the most handsome husband."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-31/mark-latham-tweet-lgbt-reaction/102166816

Google censorship

In the last few months, Google have occasionally been censoring my blogs in various strange ways.  Google own blogger.com and blogspot, which I use for my blogging.

They do so in two ways: By putting a warning in front of a post  or by deleting the post altogether.  And the odd thing so far is that the posts they attack are old ones, from many years back, when the post concerned no longer matters much.

Sometimes I can see what they are objecting to and sometimes I cannot.  The latest "warned" post is an example of the latter.  It seems amusing but perfectly harmless to me. They must have some very strange person assigned to my blogs. I reproduce below the whole email about it that I received from Google.  

   As you may know, our community guidelines
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http://awesternheart.blogspot.com/2007/04/just-for-laughs.html.

Your blog readers must acknowledge the warning before being able to read the post/blog.

     Why was your blog post put behind a warning for readers?

     Your content has been evaluated according to our adult content policy. Please follow the community guidelines link in this email to learn more.

     We apply warning messages to posts that contain sensitive content. If you are interested in having the status reviewed, please update the content to adhere to Blogger's community guidelines. Once the content is updated, you may republish it at

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No free speech in New Zealand

Under Leftist rule they have become racist and Fascist

In September 1969, hippies thronged to Auckland’s Albert Park to stand up for free speech, protest the Vietnam War, and enjoy the grass. It was part of a movement for free love and free minds that was sweeping the English-speaking world at the time. They called the weekend rock concerts ‘jumping Sundays’ after the hippies’ impromptu dancing.

Last Saturday, Albert Park was the site of a very different sort of event. This one was also part of a movement sweeping the English-speaking world; however it wasn’t part of a movement in favour of free speech, but of a movement that opposes it.

Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (aka Posie Parker), a British activist who is sceptical of contemporary gender ideology, had planned to make two stops in New Zealand (in Auckland and Wellington) after several rallies in Australia.

In Albert Park, she was prevented from speaking. One protester poured a can of tomato juice over her. She was surrounded by a large crowd that her security detail struggled to keep away from her. Keen-Minshull later said that she genuinely feared for her life. She left the country soon afterwards, cancelling her Wellington event.

Nor was this the only violence. An elderly man was elbowed in the face, and an elderly woman punched several times, both apparently by individuals protesting Keen-Minshull’s appearance. Green MP Marama Davidson, who was also protesting Keen-Minshull, was struck by a motorcycle while crossing the road and received medical attention.

There is no doubt that Keen-Minshull is a controversial figure. In 2019, she was questioned by UK police after describing the surgery a trans person had undergone as castration. In January of this year, Pink News reported that a speaker at an event organised by Keen-Minshull had quoted Hitler’s Mein Kampf. And earlier this month, a group of neo-Nazis appeared near where Keen-Minshull was speaking in Melbourne – though their rally seems to have been separate from her event, and she has since explicitly denounced them.

In the end, though, none of this has much bearing in what happened on Saturday. A visitor to this country was prevented from speaking and made to fear for her life by violent bullies. She had her free speech rights violated, and the New Zealand police were nowhere to be seen.

Both the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the New Zealand Bill of Rights protect freedom of expression. In both cases, this includes the right to impart ideas or opinions. Making noise or calling out in order to disrupt a speaker is not normally considered protected speech. As the US jurist Erwin Chemerinksy has written, “Freedom of speech, on campuses and elsewhere, is rendered meaningless if speakers can be shouted down by those who disagree.”

Some within New Zealand have compared the episode to the notorious 1981 Springbok tour of the country. Hundreds swarmed pitches to protest the All Blacks playing against a team from apartheid South Africa, and one test match was called off as a result. But the Springboks were not expressing ideas; nor was Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull representing an explicitly racist regime. Those who argue that Keen-Minshull speaking would have led to the fundamental rights of trans people being disregarded need to spell out which rights would have been violated, and how.

It is true that the vast majority of the protesters did not engage in violence. We should also bear in mind that the vast majority of trans people oppose the violence that took place on Sunday. There are, though, clear signs that many of those who thronged around Keen-Minshull on Sunday had drunk the Kool-Aid that speech can be violence, and therefore that violence is an appropriate response to speech. One protester held up a sign which read ‘These boots stomp TERFs.’

Amid all the arguments and recriminations on social media, one question remains unanswered. What exactly would have happened if Keen-Minshull had simply been allowed to speak on Saturday, with those who wanted to being allowed to disagree with her afterwards?

The answer, of course, is that had the police done their job and protected Keen-Minshull’s free speech rights, the British feminist would have given a short and provocative speech to a few supporters and a much larger group of critics. The critics would almost certainly then have monopolised discussion at any Q&A. Most would have gone away with the same views as they had brought to the event; a few might have had their views changed. And then everyone would have gone home. The universal rights to freedom of expression of everyone involved would have remained intact.

As would the reputation of New Zealand as a one of the world’s most open societies. Now, of course, this reputation has received another much-deserved beating. Only a few weeks ago, Richard Dawkins’ visit to these shores reminded us of the disgraceful actions of the Royal Society in investigating a number of its fellows after they wrote a letter defending science against attacks on it as intrinsically colonialist. Now New Zealand is making headlines around the world once again, and for all the wrong reasons.

That will be the legacy of this weekend’s event at Albert Park. It is difficult to imagine a more complete or a more shameful repudiation of a former generation of Kiwis’ embrace of love, tolerance, and free speech.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nz/shameful-legacy-nzs-open-society-takes-welldeserved-beating/news-story/edd4c02e03c328cb7a24c8d871e44dde

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Hysteria among conservatives in Victoria, Australia

That Moira Deeming  attended a rally that was gatecrashed by Nazis is surely no reflection on her but the Left says it was and the conservatives got frightened by that.  

That the rally was  against transgenders being accepted as fully women might have been a more substantial cause of complaint but she was surely entitled to her view about that.

Should you lose your job if you say that women's spaces should be reserved for women?  Is that the new thoughtcrime? Those who say so would appear to be the real Nazis


Victorian Liberal Party leader John Pesutto’s bid to expel Moira Deeming from the parliamentary party room was meant to be his making. Instead it’s more likely than not to be his undoing.

After a marathon two-hour meeting on Monday, MPs unanimously decided to suspend Deeming from the party room for nine months and strip her of the upper house whip position after she attended an anti-transgender rally which, according to organisers, was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis who were photographed performing the Nazi salute last weekend.

Pesutto justified the backflip by saying he had received “new materials” from Deeming at 6.30am on Monday that included concessions that he says he had been demanding since a meeting held on 18 March.

He said they included condemnation of some of the social media posts of women she attended the rally with. He did not release the materials, nor has Deeming, who released a statement on Monday evening conceding that attending the event “may have been an error of judgement” while also tweeting a denial that she condemned the women who organised or spoke at it.

“As I have stated, I unreservedly condemn the poor taste Nazi jokes and Nazi analogies listed in the annex of evidence against me,” she said.

“I believe I am innocent of all imputations and accusations of any connection whatsoever with nazism in any shape or form and any bigotry whatsoever toward the LGBTQI+ community.”

Pesutto confirmed he called the meeting and spoke on the motion. With the exception of his leadership team, no other Liberal MPs spoke in favour of the motion.

Then came time for those to speak against it, which included Kim Wells, widely considered a moderate and a Pesutto ally, and upper house MPs Joe McCracken and Richard Riordan. Deeming was said to have moved people to tears as she made her case to stay in the party she loves.

Deeming and those three MPs argued that the case against her wasn’t strong enough to warrant an expulsion – they said she should not be found guilty by association. They argued the move to expel Deeming went against freedom of speech, thought and association – philosophies the Liberals hold dear.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/27/john-pesuttos-failure-to-expel-moira-deeming-could-prove-to-be-his-undoing

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Football Coach Fired for Praying Gets His Job Back

A football coach in Bremerton, Washington, Joseph Kennedy, will be given back his job and have $1.8 million in legal fees paid by the school district as the Supreme Court rules that it’s a violation of religious liberty to prohibit praying after games.

In 2015, Mr. Kennedy, an assistant football coach at Bremerton High School, engaged in prayer alone on the field. When students asked if they could join, he welcomed them, without mandating participation or retaliating against those who abstained.

“Lord,” Mr. Kennedy says in his prayer. “I thank you for these kids and the blessing you’ve given me with them. We believe in the game, we believe in competition, and we can come into it as rivals and leave as brothers.” This was once standard sportsmanship in an America that put “In God We Trust” on its currency.

The school district told Mr. Kennedy to cease and desist. When he refused, he was placed on administrative leave and then fired. With backing from the First Liberty Institute, he began the drive through the courts to defend his stance.

Mr. Kennedy also had strong community support protecting his blindside. At a 2016 game, as he defied the school board, players from his team and rival Centralia High School, a member of the Washington legislature, and what the Seattle Times described as “a huge crowd” knelt on the 50-yard line with him in prayer.

“Tolerance” is a sacrament for the dominant political culture which, since it skews to the secular left, is often hostile to the religious while requiring them to not just tolerate things that run counter to their beliefs but to join in vocal celebration of them — a form of compelled speech.

The First Amendment respects the liberties of all citizens, beginning with the words, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” The Constitution also bans religious tests.

In a six to three decision, the Supreme Court ruled for Coach Kennedy. “Both the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment,” Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority, “protect expressions like Mr. Kennedy’s.”

The Establishment Clause, Justice Gorsuch said, doesn’t “require the government to single out private religious speech for special disfavor. The Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and tolerance, not censorship and suppression, for religious and nonreligious views alike.”

After agreeing to abide by the ruling, the school board president, Alyson Rotter, said they looked forward “to moving past the distraction” to “focus on what matters most: Providing our children the best education possible.”

One interpretation of the ruling is that Mr. Kennedy was fulfilling that higher academic calling by being a quiet role model, and then offering his players the opportunity to tend to their spiritual health as well as their mental and physical wellbeing.

https://www.nysun.com/article/football-coach-fired-for-praying-gets-his-job-back

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NYC Audubon Society changing name due to ‘white supremacy’ legacy

They’re bidding it Audu-bon voyage. After months of deliberation, New York City Audubon decided to change its name, citing founder John James Audubon’s legacy of white supremacy.

The ornithology-devoted organization announced the bombshell development on its website and in an email sent to members.

“NYC Audubon’s Board of Directors has today announced its decision to change the organization’s name, dropping ‘Audubon,’ ” NYC Audubon Executive Director Jessica Wilson wrote in the email to supporters.

She added that the nonprofit will begin a process to develop a new name that “embodies our organizational values” and is “inclusive and welcoming to all New Yorkers.”

The Audubon-ban marked the culmination of an eight-month-long assessment that deemed the surname to be a “barrier to entry for many into the organization.”

While the nonprofit acknowledged that the naturalist’s contributions to art and ornithology are “significant” and fostered “an appreciation of nature and conservation ethos” in the US, they deemed his views and actions toward “people of color and Indigenous people” to be “harmful and offensive.”

While they didn’t list his specific problematic views, the naturalist’s family owned enslaved people during the early part of the 19th century. Audubon was also infamously critical of the abolitionist moment on both sides of the pond. In an 1834 letter to his wife Lucy Bakewell Audubon, Audubon declared that the British government had “acted imprudently and too precipitously” in emancipating enslaved people in its West Indian colony.

Naturally, Audubon grappled with the potential cost of jettisoning the name of the organization, which has amassed 10,000 members since its founding in 1979, the New York Times reported.

While the nonprofit acknowledged that the naturalist's contributions to ornithology are "significant" and fostered "an appreciation of nature and conservation ethos" in the US, they deemed his views and actions toward black people and indigenous people "harmful and offensive."

https://nypost.com/2023/03/22/nyc-audubon-society-changing-white-supremacy-legacy-name/

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Federal Judge Delivers Major Blow to Biden Administration in Pivotal Censorship Case

A federal judge says the Biden administration may have violated the First Amendment by colluding with social media companies to censor debate on the 2020 election and COVID-19. Pictured: Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on stopping the spread of monkeypox on Sept. 14, 2022. (Photo: Tom Williams, CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images)
A federal judge ruled against the Biden administration’s efforts to dismiss a case involving online censorship Monday, saying that the states of Missouri and Louisiana had “plausibly alleged” First Amendment violations.

United States District Judge Terry A. Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana denied the Biden administration’s motion to dismiss a suit brought on May 5 by Republican Attorneys General Erik Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana. Schmitt and Landry said the Biden administration colluded with social media companies to censor debate on multiple issues, including the 2020 presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Plaintiffs have plausibly alleged joint action, entwinement, and/or that specific features of Defendants’ actions combined to create state action,” Doughty wrote in the ruling.

“Plaintiffs have clearly and plausibly alleged that Defendants engaged in viewpoint discrimination and prior restraints. As discussed in great detail above, Plaintiffs allege a regime of censorship that targets specific viewpoints deemed mis-, dis-, or malinformation by federal officials,” Doughty added. “Because Plaintiffs allege that Defendants are targeting particular views taken by speakers on a specific subject, they have alleged a clear violation of the First Amendment, i.e., viewpoint discrimination. Moreover, Plaintiffs allege that Defendants, by placing bans, shadow-bans, and other forms of restrictions on Plaintiffs’ social-media accounts, are engaged in de facto prior restraints, another clear violation of the First Amendment.”

Documents posted on Twitter by Landry included an April 14, 2021, email from White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty to an unidentified Facebook employee, demanding the company censor Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s video about vaccines. Carlson is a co-founder of the Daily Caller and Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Since we’ve been on the phone—the top post about vaccines today is [T]ucker Carlson saying they don’t work. Yesterday it was Tomi Lehren [sic] saying she won’t take one,” Flaherty wrote to the Facebook employee, according to the email released by Landry. “This is exactly why I want to know what ‘Reduction’ actually looks like—if ‘reduction’ means ‘pumping our most vaccine hesitant audience with [T]ucker Carlson saying it doesn’t work’ then … I’m not sure it’s reduction!”

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/20/judge-says-biden-administration-may-have-violated-first-amendment-by-colluding-with-big-tech

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Fairy tales under attack

A few days ago, the UK Telegraph reported that Ladybird had brought in sensitivity readers to go over the publisher’s back catalogue and reexamine a number of children’s books from its vintage collection. Classic fairy tales like Cinderella and Snow White, and the characters and plots in the stories, are said to be of particular concern to sensitivity readers. In woke parlance, fairytales are now problematic.

You won’t be surprised which perpetually offended demographic is to blame. When it comes to fairy tales, a recent survey revealed that almost half of those under the age of thirty found them to be inappropriate for children. While a whopping 89 per cent believe they reinforce outdated – what normal people call ‘traditional’  – gender roles.

This incessant need to eradicate offence is something I find deeply disturbing about millennials, and to a certain extent, Generation Z-ers. Emblematic of the purity of their political opinions and the self-righteousness of their convictions, they wish to erase everything from history. Some of these tales date back thousands of years. The reason they have survived relatively unscathed might have something to do with what they can teach us. This is because fairy tales contain a number of universal truths that are as relevant now as they were a millennium ago.

For example, in the tale of the Three Little Pigs, the moral lesson was about the value of hard work, while Goldilocks warns you not to enter  someone else’s home without permission. In Little Red Riding Hood, we learn that we should be cautious about trusting strangers, while Beauty and the Beast taught children to look beyond superficial things like physical appearance. Teaching children that there’s more to life than identity? I can see why they want to consign them to the dustbin of history!

https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/unfairy-tales/

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Uncensored Enid Blyton books with 'outdated' language are 'being stashed in off-limits spaces by librarians'

Enid Blyton's classic novels are beloved globally but some of her works have been rewritten to remove 'outdated' language.

And uncensored versions are being placed in 'off-limit storage spaces' in libraries to prevent the public from 'stumbling upon' the old wording.

Recently edited works are displayed publicly across Devon's libraries but tales which have not yet been amended are not so easy to access.

If a reader requests an original version of titles like The Famous Five, they will be shown a verbal trigger warning, according to The Telegraph.

The original versions are catalogued online and if a reader chooses to access one, a warning system will remind them of the language used within the older editions.

The changes were revealed in Devon County Council documents.

It was explained that Library Unlimited - which runs the council's library service - regularly audits books, replacing them with altered versions.

The documents say that where popular titles contain 'increasingly outdated' language, libraries purchase new, edited versions.

The off-limits area of libraries also contains books that have been removed due to staff or customer complaints - such as the autobiography of previously-incarcerated Tommy Robinson, the founder of the far-right English Defence League.

Blyton composed more than 700 books, including beloved titles like The Famous Five series and Noddy, from the late 1930s until she died in 1968.

But publishing house Hodder confirmed in 2010 that Blyton's works would be refreshed in order to make them 'timeless'.

In January last year, Jacqueline Wilson gave The Magic Faraway Tree a rewrite to remove 'sexist expectations' of female characters, with domestic chores for the girls replaced with a lesson on gender equality.

And in February, Blyton's Famous Five and Malory Towers books saw words such as 'brown' with reference to tanned faces, 'queer' and 'gay' changed to bring them up to date.

A description of 'a brown-faced fisher-boy' was 'changed to a suntanned fisher-boy', while 'Where's George? She wants spanking' became 'She wants a good talking to.'

English Heritage released updated blue plaque information in 2021 saying Blyton's booked had been linked to 'racism and xenophobia'.

Examples of 'racism' within the books include 1966's The Little Black Doll, in which the main character 'Sambo' is only accepted by his owner 'once his "ugly black face" is washed "clean" by rain', while in Noddy, 'golliwogs' were changed to 'goblins'.

English Heritage also now cites that publisher Macmillan refused to publish The Mystery That Never Was over its 'old-fashioned xenophobia' towards foreign characters.

Dr Byrn Harris, legal counsel for the Free Speech Union told The Telegraph: 'We are bemused by the decision to treat the author of Noddy as dangerous and subversive samizdat.'

He claimed that libraries have a duty to provide a comprehensive and efficient service and alleged 'holding back certain works and making them less accessible might fall short of that standard.'

Dr Harris also alleged the reasoning for the books being placed out of public sight was of 'dubious relevance', despite the many previous criticism of Blyton's works.

'If public libraries insist on having a censorship policy then users, especially children and their parents or guardians, must be clearly informed that the library’s holdings may not be comprehensive as a result of the policy,' Dr Harris added.

MailOnline has approached Devon County Council and Libraries Unlimited for comment.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11878351/Uncensored-Enid-Blyton-books-outdated-language-stashed-limits-librarians.html

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Cuba Arrests a 24-Year-Old YouTuber for Describing Daily Life on the Communist Island

Fines for defaming the government; threats regarding her child; confiscation of property: These are only some of the things that a Cuban woman has been enduring for covering on YouTube the ongoing crisis in Cuba.

The Cuban regime seems intent on ensuring that 24-year-old Hildina Nuñez Diaz does not post another video. On Thursday, government officials arrested Ms. Nuñez Diaz in her home, leaving the Cuban fearing for her life and uncertain about her future.

About 30 agents stormed into Ms. Nuñez Diaz’s home at Santiago de Cuba and arrested her in front of her five-month-old son, Liam Jesus, her mother, and her father. During the arrest, the officials confiscated all technological devices, including her cellphone, computer, wifi router, and camera.

“When the police arrived at her house, they closed the block so nobody could walk by,” Ms. Nuñez Diaz’s husband, Jesus Reyna, tells the Sun. “They removed her from her own house as if she was a criminal.” Mr. Reyna was working in Texas at the time of the arrest.

Ms. Nuñez Diaz was held at Santiago de Cuba’s police station for seven hours. According to Mr. Reyna, she was passed along to several government officials, who threatened her physical safety and her son’s custody.

“They never told her what her rights were while arrested,” Mr. Reyna says. “She wasn’t even given the right to a lawyer.”

Before releasing her, the officials forced Ms. Nuñez Diaz to sign a consent saying she would no longer post videos. She also received a fine for “taking over social media to discredit the government.” In addition, she was told that she is not allowed to leave Cuba and that Mr. Reyna could not re-enter the island, as they claim he “influenced” her into making those videos.

Ms. Nuñez Diaz opened her YouTube account in 2020 and since then has been posting videos of the daily struggle that Cubans face on the island. The account has 114,000 subscribers.

The dangers one witnesses at night in Cuba, the consequences of the shortage of basic products such as rice and sugar, and how a Cuban can easily spend a monthly salary on vegetables are only some of the many realities of the island that she illuminates on YouTube.

“I want to show you Cuba’s reality, the one that many are afraid to tell but it’s time for the world to know the true situation in which Cubans live today,” Ms. Nuñez Diaz says in one of her YouTube videos. She says that she “loves” her country, but it “hurts to see it like this.”

“Hopefully one day we Cubans will see that light that we so much need at the end of the tunnel,” Ms. Nuñez Diaz adds. The executive director of the Center for a Free Cuba, John Suarez, tells the Sun that Ms. Nuñez Diaz “faces great danger in Cuba.”

“Cuba’s penal code has grown more draconian and is targeting individuals expressing themselves in any way that portrays the Cuban government in a negative light,” Mr. Suarez says.

According to Cuba’s penal code, anyone who provides information to international foreign services against the Cuban regime “incurs a penalty of deprivation of liberty from 10 to 30 years, life imprisonment, or death.”

On May 15, 2022, the Castro regime passed a bill that restricts free expression by prohibiting Cubans from receiving foreign funding. The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the bill, as the Cuban press has often relied on international funding.

The following day, the Biden administration announced it was easing sanctions against Cuba. What Ms. Nuñez Diaz has undergone “is happening, and has happened before,” Mr. Suarez says. “International leaders need to condemn it and keep drawing attention to this outrage.”

Ms. Nuñez Diaz earlier had received several threats from the regime. In December, she received a call from the university where she works as a professor, telling her to go into the directives office for a check-in meeting.

Instead, she was greeted by officials from the Castro regime, who threatened her job if she did not stop making videos. They said the videos were “against the road to revolution” of the Cuban communist president, Fidel Castro.

The second encounter occurred in February at Havana, where Ms. Nuñez Diaz was recording a video. A policeman, who had been following her for weeks, entered her home and told her that if she did not stop recording, she would be arrested.

“They told me to double think my actions as I am a mother of a child,” Ms. Nuñez Diaz said in a video in which she told her followers about the confrontation.

Ms. Nuñez Diaz is now at her house at Santiago de Cuba with no form of communication. She is prohibited from leaving the island and is in a psychologically ill state of mind, suffering from “severe” anxiety over what the regime holds for her future, Mr. Reyna says.

https://www.nysun.com/article/cuba-arrests-a-24-year-old-youtuber-for-describing-daily-life-on-the-communist-island

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