Former NZ PM Ardern Urges United Nations To ‘Crack Down On Free Speech As A Weapon Of War’

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

Jacinda Ardern may no longer be Prime Minister of New Zealand, but she was back at the United Nations continuing her call for international censorship.

Ardern is now one of the leading anti-free speech figures in the world and continues to draw support from political and academic establishments.

In her latest attack on free speech, Ardern declared free speech as a virtual weapon of war.

She is demanding that the world join her in battling free speech as part of its own war against “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

Her views, of course, were not only enthusiastically embraced by authoritarian countries, but the government and academic elite.

In her speech, she notes that we cannot allow free speech to get into the way of fighting things like climate change. She notes that they cannot win the war on climate change if people do not believe them about the underlying problem. The solution is to silence those with opposing views. It is that simple.

While some of us have denounced her views as an attack on free expression, Harvard rushed to give her not one but two fellowships.

While the free speech community denounced her for unrelenting attacks on this human right, Harvard praised her for “strong and empathetic political leadership” and specifically enlisted her to help “improve content standards and platform accountability for extremist content online.”

I actually have no objection to the inclusion of Ardern as a Harvard fellow. She is a former world leader who is leading the movement against free speech. It is a view that students should consider in looking at these controversies.

However, Harvard has heralded her views with no acknowledgment of her extreme antagonism toward free speech principles.

There is also little countervailing balance at the school with fellows supporting free speech as a human right. Rather, Harvard (which ranks dead last on the recent free speech survey) has become a virtual clearinghouse for anti-free speech academics and advocates.

Free speech is now commonly treated on campuses as harmful.

Rather than the right that defines us, it is treated as an existential threat.

What is so chilling is to hear Ardern express her fealty to free speech as she calls on the nations of the world to severely curtail it to prevent people from undermining their policies and priorities.

She remains the “empathetic” face of raw censorship and intolerance. She is now the virtual ambassador-at-large for global speech criminalization.

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28 Comments
Brewer55
Brewer55
September 20, 2023 3:29 pm

It’s time to hook up ‘horsey face’ Jacinda with “Big Mike”. What a quinella!

flash
flash
  Brewer55
September 20, 2023 4:54 pm
BL
BL
September 20, 2023 3:29 pm

Like I said before, WEF/NGO’s including the UN are unelected theater and we should simply say , “We Do Not Comply” to their diktats. They are not legit in any way, so Arden can go stand in the corner.

zappalives
zappalives
September 20, 2023 3:59 pm

This viscous democrat cunt just wont let it lay !
Cunt should be on every patriots list.

kiwi
kiwi
  zappalives
September 20, 2023 5:12 pm

its a communist Frank

Anonymous
Anonymous
  zappalives
September 21, 2023 10:39 am

viscous?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
September 21, 2023 12:59 pm

viscous
naw, She’s just tacky.

Unplugged
Unplugged
September 20, 2023 4:15 pm

Jacinda walks into a bar and the bartender says: “Hey, Man! Why the long face?”

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Unplugged
September 20, 2023 4:24 pm

Jacinda walked into a bar and got knocked out.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
September 21, 2023 1:50 am

Goby “that’s like…two jokes man..”

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 20, 2023 4:38 pm

How is this bitch still vertical?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
September 20, 2023 8:46 pm

She’s a penis.

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 20, 2023 4:41 pm

She’s “Adern fool!”

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 20, 2023 4:43 pm

Red dot>forehead
Demonic~Lives~Splatter

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 20, 2023 4:56 pm

When your entire worldview is founded on the most transparent of lies, anyone speaking the truth is a intolerable threat.

kiwi
kiwi
September 20, 2023 5:09 pm

cinders is freaking out, gotta stop everyone talking
he/she don,t like hearing the threats,

Claude
Claude
September 20, 2023 5:58 pm

Who cares what “Mrs. Ed” thinks.

TCS
TCS
  Claude
September 21, 2023 4:19 am

That’s “MS Karen” to you, sir.

beau
beau
  Claude
September 21, 2023 2:10 pm

i thought that was reserved for the occasional-cortex, or is Mr Ed a bigamist?

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
September 20, 2023 6:07 pm

So she has declared war on US. Challenge accepted.

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 20, 2023 6:18 pm

Incel jerk fantasy

KaD
KaD
September 20, 2023 9:28 pm

A weapon of war- LOL! Who died from free speech? Anyone? Ever?

Consensus
Consensus
September 20, 2023 9:37 pm

” The solution is to silence those with opposing views. It is that simple. “

Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid
  Consensus
September 20, 2023 11:20 pm

What goes around comes around. She won’t like it when it does.

bert33
bert33
September 20, 2023 9:46 pm

whatever, she can drag it back to NZ and practice shutting up. Less CO2 emissions out of her, that way. America has free speech. I am an American, and I say re-host the UN to NZ, so Americans wont have to pay for it anymore and the building can be converted to a homeless resource center. Good riddance to jacinda and be on your way

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 21, 2023 1:52 am

How about we crack down on YOUR SPEACH, YOU FUCKING RACE TRAITER WHORE, JACKS SIN DUH?

TCS
TCS
September 21, 2023 4:17 am

Had to look twice to make sure this wasn’t a BB article. Sadly, it was not.

arrow
arrow
September 21, 2023 8:34 am

“The solution is to silence those with opposing views. It is that simple.” (Whinnies)