#free-speech — Public Fediverse posts

For the record, I personally do not care for either artist's music, but one has gained some of my respect while another lost all of it. Can you guess which?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DdM6GWYlC2t/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
#freepalestine #gaza #genocide #israeligenocide #pink #Macklemore #freespeech #fascism #oligarchy #broligarchy #aristocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #criminal #crime #corrupt #traitor #corruption #treason #news #usnews #globalnews #policy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #globalpolitics #history #ushistory #worldshitory

Australia - Democracy?

There is probably more than a strong correlation between restricting free speech and the rise in Authoritarianism.

#auspol #democracy #freespeech

Australian housing

The story should be about why the PM denies people the same opportunities his family were given. A time when invalid pension, public housing and free education were available.

#auspol #democracy #freespeech

Australia

Fans who remain welded to their failed political parties are helping the decline.

A huge problem for Australia is the total lack of talent and concern where it is needed.

#auspol #democracy #freespeech

Here are examples of "How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/us/politics/trump-free-speech.html
#CivilLiberties #FreeSpeech copy: @renewedresistance #politics

The number of journalists being murdered in Mexico is on the rise again. Seven were killed this year – six in the last three months alone.

The chilling nexus between organised crime syndicates and public officials is creating “zones of silence”.

#MediaFreedom #FreeSpeech

For more: https://buff.ly/fhNaOxi via @iMEdD_org

Australia - Government services

Governments services are designed to fit in with a budget. As the need for the services increases, the eligibility for services needs to change. This is how it goes.

#auspol #democracy #freespeech

Australia

I suspect many academics and journalists believe the lies that they promulgate. It should be obvious that we have been taken down a precarious path. We seem to believe the worst of the lies. Maybe a natural instinct to avoid the truth.

#auspol #democracy #freespeech

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Duty Of Careful What You Wish For

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/11/ctrl-alt-speech-duty-of-careful-what-you-wish-for/

Un santo! Un apostolo!

https://leargenteetesteduovo.com/2026/09/11/un-santo-un-apostolo/

Lawmakers Ask Lutnick To Blacklist Appin, The Hack-For-Hire Firm That Threatens Almost Anyone Who Prints Its Name

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/10/lawmakers-ask-lutnick-to-blacklist-appin-the-hack-for-hire-firm-that-threatens-almost-anyone-who-prints-its-name/

Jimmy Kimmel Won’t Air James Talarico Interview On ABC For Fear Of FCC Reprisal

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/10/jimmy-kimmel-wont-air-james-talarico-interview-on-abc-for-fear-of-fcc-reprisal/

Stars and Stripes shows how government-funded journalism can work – if it’s free to report the truth https://theconversation.com/stars-and-stripes-shows-how-government-funded-journalism-can-work-if-its-free-to-report-the-truth-290477 @TheConversationUS

Stripes was able to provide the only eyewitness account of the negotiations that led to Germany’s surrender in 1945 because its reporter was in the schoolhouse in Reims, France, where Allied and German officials hashed out the terms.

#Journalism #FreeSpeech

The #rhetorical move is to erase the difference
- facts become "one opinion"
- expert evidence becomes "one narrative"
- political assertions/fantasies become "another point of view"

Then challenging them can be portrayed, often with bad-will & political strategy intent, as an attack on #freespeech

#FreeSpeech

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/4/stanford_daily_lawsuit_free_speech_fire

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cc: @lisamelton

#freespeech @HeavenlyPossum https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/117236836670260311

The Trump administration warned Britain not to force social platforms to boost traditional media in their algorithms, calling it a censorship risk. Apparently America’s newest export is unsolicited advice about everybody else’s internet. #FreeSpeech

""anti-Israel propaganda" she cries, like we're not allowed to criticise the actions of nation states?

#Pink #Genocide #Israel #FreeSpeech #Macklemore #FreePalestine

Satire alert for those unused to British “piss-taking”!!

“[UK] Home Office to proscribe Macklemore for speech suggesting all human beings are equal”

by Normal Island News on Substack

@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@iran
@iraq
@palestinenews

“The Home Office plans to proscribe the rap act known in terrorist circles as ‘Macklemore’. This follows disturbing footage of the keffiyeh-wearing savage rallying a crowd of 80,000 at an Ed Sheeran concert. Now I know what you’re all thinking: how the hell did Ed Sheeran get 80,000 fans?”

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/home-office-to-proscribe-macklemore

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Sheeran #Macklemore #Israel #Palestine #FreePalestine #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #UK #HomeOffice #Censorship #TerrorismAct #FreeSpeech

“Britain’s Free Speech Problem”

by Big Brother Watch

@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@freespeechabsolutist
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
@guardian
@Independent
@thetimes

“Our groundbreaking new report, 'Britain's free speech problem: How growing restrictions are stifling speech online and offline’ reveals the bleak state of free speech in Britain today. It investigates how a patchwork of poor legislation, a ‘postcode lottery’ of policing, and a relentless stream of new restrictions are slowly limiting Britons’ free speech”

Download the report for free or read the key findings from here:

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/save-free-speech/

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Britain #FreeSpeech #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #PoliceState #Terrorism #TerrorismAct #OnlineSafety #PoliticalPolicing #Israel #ZionistLobbby #PalestinianGenocide #Censorship #CancelCulture

Seeing a #Canadian (#Vancouver I think) strip club account nuked by #Instagram for posting a picture of their sign reading

"Can't handle a pool but want our lake?"

Scarlet for the #USians

#freespeech for everything we agree with. #Censorship if you make jokes against #US