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European Regimes Renew Their Attacks On Free Speech Authored by Ryan McMaken via Mises Institute, In recent weeks, German and French politicians have denounced free speech, and especially the concept of "freedom of speech" as long envisioned in the libertarian tradition of natural rights. French President Emmanuel Macron on September 29 stated that"The so-called American 'free speech' today, which some people have promoted, is the opposite of free speech." Macron compared speaking freely as comparable to walking down the street assaulting other people. A week earlier, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared,"Don't anyone...

Skynet, Spies, And Your Vote Doesn't Count: The 10 Biggest Red Flags In Anthropic's IPO Filing When Anthropic's S-1 went public on Oct 26, the headline number was a $974 million operating profit on $11.6 billion of second-quarter revenue. It also came with what we tallied as roughly $800 billion in compute commitments, including up to $120.5 billion owed to Elon Musk's SpaceXAI.Monday's amendment filled in the blanks, and it's not looking any better. Third-quarter revenue came in at $16.96 billion, up 1,127% from a year earlier. But operating profit...

Leftist German Party Leader Forced To Correct Lies About AfD Leader, Pay Her Legal Fees Via Remix News, Alice Weidel, co-leader of the anti-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has successfully sued the Left Party leader and won a retraction after she spread falsehoods about Weidel on live television. In mid-May, Ines Schwerdtner, the federal chairwoman of the Left Party, claimed during an interview on Welt TV that Wediel neither resides in Germany nor pays taxes.  “Alice Weidel doesn’t even live in Germany, she doesn’t pay taxes here,” she told viewers. This statement is...