#free-speech — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #free-speech, aggregated by home.social.
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Australia
We learn what our foreign and economic policies (maybe all policies) we have at the same time as the government. Just depends on who gets to see the US social media announcements first.
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From our magazine: “Texas has decided it is not at all obnoxious or illegal to allow deadly concealed weapons on campus. But walking around with a dildo could land you in trouble. We’re protesting absurdity with absurdity.” https://www.texasobserver.org/cocks-not-glocks-at-10/
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Criticising the use of money to fund terrorist activities is not hate speech.
#justice #humanrights #freespeech #solidarity #accountability #truth #ethics #dignity #systemicchange #reflections #society #advocacy #resistance #standfirm
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Criticising an oppressive regime is not hate speech.
#justice #humanrights #freespeech #solidarity #accountability #truth #ethics #dignity #systemicchange #reflections #society #advocacy #resistance #standfirm
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RE: https://todon.eu/@regendans/117147189868579997
Apparently British Juries are not allowed to use their consciences, it must only be obedience to the State.
Funny how all those "Free Speech Heroes" crying about that Race Science guy are silent on stuff like that, must be their own Free Speech and no one else's.....wonder if the Media is ever going to notice that one
#UKLaw #PalestineAction #UKPol #UKpolitics #FreeSpeech #JuryNulification
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117150473519044476
These timely comments by #MarkRuffalo could delay an anti-competitive merger that Paramount and its owners (the Ellisons) seek. A long delay would be in the public interest but it would cost the Ellisons a lot more money. Apparently trying to keep other actors silent on this subject, the Ellisons falsely accused Mark Ruffalo of antisemitism. All people have a right to speak up, as Mark Ruffalo did, on subjects including a proposed anti-competitive merger by Paramount.
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Australia
If government is representing people there would be no ambiguity. We would no exactly what they are saying, what they are doing, and why.
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Beyond The Scoreboard @beyondthescoreboardpodcast.wordpress.com@beyondthescoreboardpodcast.wordpress.com ·The Surveillance State Next Door
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operates a massive, contractor-backed digital surveillance program—utilizing automated scanners, data aggregators, and administrative subpoenas to track online critics, monitor activists, and aggregate personal dossiers.https://beyondthescoreboardpodcast.wordpress.com/2026/08/23/the-surveillance-state-next-door/
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Australia - Quarter time score
Insanity 12 goals 5 points V Reasonableness 0 0
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Win! A NSW Supreme Court judgment has clearly distinguished criticism of Israel from antisemitism, settling important questions about the IHRA conflation and its weaponizing by governments and institutions.
“The IHRA core text is so verbose and imprecise that it could not realistically be attributed to the ordinary, reasonably informed member of the Australian public,” Justice Fagan says. The examples, he says, “indicate that the IHRA wording is not intended to give effect to the extant common understanding of antisemitism” but is directed to grafting “onto the community’s abhorrence of antisemitism, understood as hostility to Jews for their Jewishness, a parasitic rejection of protest against Israel. Seen in that light, the IHRA proposal is detached from the reality of the common usage and understanding of antisemitism in this country.”
https://pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/08/a-judgment-that-challenges-the-ihra-definition-of-antisemitism/ @palestine
#freeSpeech #confusion #conflation #IHRA #proZionism #antisemitism #AusPol #publicLaw #NSW
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“Long live Stars and Stripes and the honorable service the paper has provided for decades to soldiers and to the nation.”
#starsandstripes #usmilitary #journalism #freespeech #freedomofthepress #hegseth
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/stars-stripped?r=1emko&utm_medium=ios
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Intermediary Liability in Brazil: The Intricate Path Ahead
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/intermediary-liability-brazil-intricate-path-ahead
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Iran set to impose even harsher punishment for any contact with foreign media
Iran’s parliament passed a resolution early this week that would increase punishments for Iranians who interact in any…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #DonaldTrump #Execution #freespeech #Humanrights #Iran #Sanctions #War
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Australia
We have a long way to go if we are ever to become a nation. We still need to be told what to do: culturally and politically. Why are we so afraid of becoming adults.
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Australia
The world order is changing. We either begin diplomacy, mutually beneficial trade, and exchanging ideas, else we will continue to fall behind. Our politicians do not seem to care beyond their own selfish egos, lacking the talent and desire to to what is best for Australian people.
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Australia
Government Ministers continue to try and hold two opposing views at the same time. As the narratives begin to crumble, the politicians begin to struggle to complete sentences. They do not get updated scripts in time to maintain their self delusion that they are making any sense at all.
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Earlier: In an attempt to overcomply with #Texas law, the University of #Houston will eliminate over 100 women's studies, gender and sexuality courses from the core curriculum.
It won't be enough to appease extremist Republicans. https://www.texasobserver.org/university-of-houston-ends-gender-sexuality-courses-op-ed/
#FreeSpeech #education #law #politics #USpol #news #censorship
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DATE: August 20, 2026 at 02:00PM
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A survey of over 4,000 individuals found that Gen Z Americans tend to be more accepting of shoutdowns, blockades, and violence as methods to suppress speech than their older compatriots, regardless of whether they are asked about these tactics in the abstract or against speech they find personally offensive. Young liberals tended to be more supportive of these methods compared to conservatives when asked abstractly worded questions, but this ideological gap disappeared when the questions referred to suppressing specific, highly offensive ideas. The paper was published in PS: Political Science & Politics.
Free speech is a cornerstone of democratic society. However, people do not always agree about what should happen when speech is considered offensive or harmful. One of the personal and social characteristics that allows free speech to exist is political tolerance. Political tolerance involves allowing people to express ideas that we strongly oppose. In this way, controversial speech is an important test of a person’s commitment to the principles of political tolerance.
Recent research suggests that attitudes toward free speech in the United States may be changing, particularly among younger generations. Younger and more progressive Americans appear increasingly likely to weigh concerns about equality, inclusion, and harm against an unrestricted commitment to freedom of expression. The issue becomes especially complicated when protests themselves are intended to prevent other people from speaking. Although Americans generally support peaceful protest, support falls considerably when protesters employ disruptive, coercive, or violent tactics.
Study author Kevin Jay Wallsten explored the American public’s views on speech-suppressing, disruptive protest tactics. He noted that previous research generally examined tolerance in one of three ways: by exploring abstract support for free speech; by exploring how much people tolerate speech from groups the researchers believe are broadly unpopular, such as communists or racists (the “fixed-group” approach); and by exploring tolerance toward a “least-liked group” that the respondents previously selected from a list.
He notes that the first two approaches can overestimate tolerance because they do not measure whether respondents would actually extend civil liberties to groups they find disagreeable. Researchers using the fixed-group approach do not definitively know if their respondents actually find the groups they are asking about disagreeable, or to what extent. They only gauge the general view of the public.
To address this, Wallsten conducted a nationally representative survey of 4,188 Americans. Study participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. In the first condition (the “non-group” or abstract approach), participants were asked: “How acceptable [always/sometimes/rarely/never] would you say it is for people to engage in the following action to protest a public speaker?: (1) shouting down a speaker to prevent them from speaking; (2) blocking other people from attending a speech; and (3) using violence to stop a speech.”
In the second condition (the “most-offensive-idea” approach), participants were first asked to select the statement they found most offensive from a list (e.g., “All whites are racist oppressors” or “America got what it deserved on 9/11”). They were then asked whether the protest tactics described in the first condition would be acceptable when used against a speaker advocating the specific idea they just selected.
Results showed that the idea participants found to be most offensive depended heavily on their political ideology. For example, the statement “January 6th was a peaceful protest” was selected as the most offensive by almost 25% of liberals, but only 1% of conservatives. On the other hand, statements like “All whites are racist oppressors” were much more frequently selected by conservatives. Interestingly, the shares of conservatives and liberals who selected “America got what it deserved on 9/11” and “All immigrants should be arrested and deported” as the most offensive were relatively similar.
Results further showed that the three tactics the survey asked about were not equally endorsed. Participants were most accepting of shouting down a speaker and least accepting of using violence. Overall, the youngest participants (Gen Z) tended to be more accepting of all three methods of suppressing speech than older generations. Furthermore, the study found no significant difference between Gen Z respondents who attend college and those who do not, suggesting this acceptance is a generational shift rather than a result of higher education socialization.
Ideological differences also depended entirely on how the question was asked. Young liberals tended to be more supportive of these methods compared to conservatives and moderates only in the abstract condition where the speaker’s statements were not specified. However, when respondents evaluated tactics used against a speaker making a statement they personally found offensive, acceptance increased among conservatives and moderates, completely erasing the ideological gap.
“These analyses reveal important generational differences in how people think about speech-suppressing shoutdowns, blockades, and violence. Members of Gen Z consistently express more permissiveness about these tactics than older cohorts,” the study author concluded.
“Although previous research suggests that young liberals are particularly supportive of disruptive protest actions, this study demonstrates that ideological polarization is present only when survey respondents are asked abstractly worded questions. When asked to evaluate disruptive acts targeting speakers that they find personally offensive, ideological gaps between liberals and conservatives close.”
The study contributes to the scientific understanding of political tolerance in the U.S. However, it should be noted that all data came from self-reports (asking people how acceptable certain actions are to them in theory) rather than observing their behavior in real-world situations. This leaves room for self-reporting bias—where people answer how they think they should feel rather than how they would actually act—to have affected the results.
The paper, “Generational and Ideological Divides in Support for Speech-Suppressing Protest,” was authored by Kevin Jay Wallsten.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #GenZ #FreeSpeech #ProtestTactics #SpeechSuppression #ShoutDowns #Blockades #ViolenceInProtest #PoliticalTolerance #GenerationalDivide #PublicSpeaking
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Some Tech Companies Have Privately Pushed Back on ICE Subpoenas. They Should All Do More.
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RE: https://climatejustice.social/@PeterRu/117128752399395343
Try to set fire to an Asylum Seeker hotel and you'll still be called an 'activist' though. 😒
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FOIA Docs Show Brendan Carr Intimately Collaborated With White House, Right Wing Propaganda Orgs
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A DOJ whistleblower report reveals Trump
administration campus probes had
predetermined outcomes and violated free
speech. Ignoring anti-Muslim bias, it highlights an alarming reality: a direct threat to democracy and the Constitution that allows obscurantist
ideologies into universities by ignoring them.
#AcademicFreedom #CivilRights #FreeSpeech
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Australia's barriers to free speech
Our ability to openly discuss important issues is limited. Some topics are not allowed, others discouraged. Without public debate there cannot be a full understanding of problems and solutions.
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CW: Randomly-generated conspiracy theory
Mermaids are real but nobody believes me because they refuse to see the truth ... I know because Reddit was down this morning ,, and there was something about it on Angelfire. #freespeech
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/19/activist-forced-out-of-us-after-criticising-trump-aligned-colombian-politician. #Freespeech in the #US? Apparently not - not if you dare to disagree with Donald #Trump.
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Australia and gambling
I expect that addiction to gambling is a most destructive and lonely disease. Eroding the individuals sense of self worth, and devastating consequences for those closest to them.
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Australia - Intelligent systems usage and reach
We are not fully aware of the breadth of intelligent system usage across various fields. It is crucial to map out where these systems are being applied now and determine their total reach within society.