When people die, they leave a big hole in you, and that hole really doesn't get any smaller. What our job is is to grow ourselves bigger around the hole by building character. And we do that by taking part of the best virtues of the person who died, and trying to incorporate those into our own character. And that way, we make ourselves larger, and the hole gets proportionally smaller.
Nico Perrino, the Executive VP of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has authored "Charlie Kirk's assassinationViolence must never be a response to speech."
Unfortunately, since 2021, we’ve seen a steady rise in support for violence in response to speech on campus. Earlier this week, we released our finding that one in three students express some support for the use of violence to stop a campus speech. That’s up from 20 percent only three years ago. While we do not know the identity of the gunman, what happened yesterday is indicative of a broader cancer in our body politic that we must address.The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once observed: “The purpose of thinking is to let the ideas die instead of us dying.”But it must not be addressed with censorship.
For more than 25 years, FIRE has challenged colleges that use speculative and amorphous security rationales to justify censoring controversial speakers. Through public records requests and other means, we’ve often found these rationales serve as a pretext to shut down debate and capitulate to demands for censorship. Indeed, according to our Deplatforming Database, Kirk was the subject of at least 14 attempts to stop him from speaking on campuses since 2021. Over the years, FIRE has repeatedly written to colleges that sought to silence Kirk’s organization and supporters.
People need to be protected from preprint warning of mRNA risks. The article:
"BREAKING: MDPI Censors One of the World’s Most-Read Preprints Showing mRNA Shots Disrupt Thousands of Genes: With over 34,000 views and 8,600 downloads, our study discovered long-lasting genetic disruption from mRNA shots—only to be unethically censored by the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex."
Nicolas Hulscher:
The sheer reach of this work made it impossible for the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex and its online enforcers at PubPeer to ignore. So they pressured Preprints.org into doing something unprecedented: retracting a preprint, an act almost never seen in science.
Infographic from the censored article:
Steve Stewart-Williams: "14 million twin pairs confirm: All traits are partially heritable; the home you grow up in has surprisingly little effect on how you turn out."
