A Sydney man has been forced to hand in his personalised number plates after Transport for NSW deemed them offensive.

The Sydney man told 2GB he believed the order was a violation of his free speech rights imposed by the "woke left".

Globe-trotting newspaper reporter Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker spoke in Dallas at Southern Methodist University on Nov. 20, 1941, but as usual his pro-war message fell on deaf and hostile ears.