#free-speech — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

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“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

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“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

Australian education

Keep your head down, work hard and obey the rules. Then you may get to help make a few people very rich and powerful, and who don't give a damn about you.

#auspol #democracy #freespeech

Australian sovereignty

The dismissal of Whitlam, who strongly defended Australian sovereignty against American influence, was the last time a PM said no to a US President.

The US and Australia have good people, sharing a common problem, when governments terrible decisions.

#auspol #democracy #freespeech cc #USpol

RE: https://mastox.eu/@mehdirhasan/117229395729460549

All this is happening under a Labour Government

#UKpol #UKpolitics #Fascism #PalestineAction #FreeSpeech #PatriotPlatform #Labour

@rameshgupta this is pure anti #freespeech / against #freedom of expression to censor media people really need to lean to co exist

Arkansas Advocate: Judge denies effort to block Arkansas outlets from publishing details about data center agreement. “A federal judge rejected an effort Wednesday to block two Arkansas news outlets from publishing details about an agreement regarding a West Memphis data center, in a case that alarmed free speech groups who say restricting publication would have undermined the First Amendment.”

Americans!

Summary of RESET Act subcommittee markup last week:

-The House E&C subcommittee replaced the RESET Act with the GUARDIAN Act during a markup
-While the GUARDIAN Act doesn't explicitly ban people under 16 from social media, the bill's provisions would effectively result in an under 16 ban.
-Why? The costs and legal risks associated with implementing a parental consent flow would make it far more trouble than it's worth for most platforms. It would be less costly to just raise the minimum age ceiling to 16.
-While the bill doesn't explicitly mandate age verification (as of now), platforms would no doubt crank up the data harvesting dial in order to enforce their new minimum age ceiling and minimize legal risk.

#Privacy #Censorship #DigitalRights #FreeSpeech #ResetAct #GuardianAct #Under16socialmedia #Under16 #US #UnitedStates

Save Free Speech

- Over 60,000 people #arrested for #communication offences over 5 years

Groundbreaking new report, Britain’s free #speech problem:

How growing #restrictions stifle 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’ #FreeSpeech

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/save-free-speech/?mc_cid=95cf618df5#report

#DemocracyNOW #UK #BigBrother

Arkansas Advocate: Judge weighing whether to block Arkansas news outlets from publishing data center pact details. “A federal judge is considering whether to block the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Arkansas Times from publishing details of an agreement regarding a West Memphis data center, a move that free speech advocates say would violate the First Amendment.”

Australia

Insanity. Thinking we know which bits are true.

#auspol #democracy #freespeech