Christian author Eric Metaxas has had his show kicked off YouTube for violating its content restrictions in what the program's producer described as a "hatchetjob."
CAMBRIDGE For over a century, the size and role of the state has been a hotly debated issue, and is so once again in the wake of COVID-19. Should governments involve themselves in ever more areas of social and commercial life, or does more government necessarily mean less freedom and more waste?On one side are libertarians, who regard governments as at best incompetent and
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A Society Based on the Social Credit System is Closer Than You Think
Published: May 14, 2021
Aussie welfare recipients only access to funds is via a cashless debit card
Australia’s government forced thousands of welfare recipients on to Centrelink, a cashless debit card. Under a massive expansion of the plan and new Federal Budget, immigrants have no access to most kinds of welfare for four years after attaining residency. However, the most crucial aspect of Centrelink is Aussies cannot use the cards for gambling, alcohol, or cigarettes. Only necessities like groceries and food can be purchased with the cards.
East Kimberley and Goldfields in Western Australia, Ceduna in South Australia, and the Bundaberg-Hervey Bay region of Queensland trialed the cards beginning in 2016. Under this scheme, 80 percent of welfare recipients’ Centrelink payment will go directly to the card rather than a bank account. That is supposed to keep recipients from wasting the welfare on unnecessar
President Xi Jinping speaks at a conference in 2011. (Voice of America/Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons)
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The Chinese government has shut down Bible apps and Christian WeChat public accounts, as part of a series of restrictive measures against Christianity that came into effect on May 1.
According to a tweet by Father Francis Liu from the Chinese Christian Fellowship of Righteousness, it is not possible to access some Christian sites on WeChat and “a few snapshots of Christian accounts’ landing page no longer show any content,” International Christian Concern (ICC) reported.
Instead, a message that reads “[We] received report that [this account] violates the ‘Internet User Public Account Information Services Management Provisions’ and its account has been blocked and suspended” is shown.