authoritarianism

Mike Pompeo slams tech titans for ‘authoritarianism cloaked as moral righteousness’ in VOA speech

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took to U.S. government-funded airwaves on Monday where he described recent actions by tech titans to curb free speech including on platforms like Twitter and Facebook as being ‘a kind of censorial instinct that is dangerous.’ Pompeo used the speech on Voice Of America to deliver a full-throated defense of … Read more

Ex-Supreme Court judge LORD SUMPTION denounces No10’s rule of muddle and authoritarianism 

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We are witnessing the slow demise of one of the great conceits of the modern world: the notion that the big-hearted State can protect us against every misfortune and that human beings are mere tools of State policy to be pushed about like pawns on a chessboard according to the changing impulses of its ministers. The … Read more