#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 Democracy
What happens when politicians are too busy feeding at the trough.
We have unelected, unaccountable commissioners, enforcing their own values on the Australian people. We are not a democracy.
Hanson might have bad ideas, but it is Government that has relinquished responsibility for public policy.
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Australia Democracy
What happens when politicians are too busy feeding at the trough.
We have unelected, unaccountable commissioners, enforcing their own values on the Australian people. We are not a democracy.
Hanson might have bad ideas, but it is Government that has relinquished responsibility for public policy.
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I agree with Bomber that the left is unwise to concede this ground to cynical hard right grifters. I'd like to see a genuinely nonpartisan kiwi org that defends freedom of political and artistic expression, with *teeth*. But also hosts friendly and constructive public debates about reasonable limits, like defamation and advocating violence, and where to draw the lines.
EDIT: Hmm. Maybe I misjudged the Free Speech Onion?
https://mastodon.nz/@BobLefridge/117034633012622437
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I agree with Bomber that the left is unwise to concede this ground to cynical hard right grifters. I'd like to see a genuinely nonpartisan kiwi org that defends freedom of political and artistic expression, with *teeth*. But also hosts friendly and constructive public debates about reasonable limits, like defamation and advocating violence, and where to draw the lines.
EDIT: Hmm. Maybe I misjudged the Free Speech Onion?
https://mastodon.nz/@BobLefridge/117034633012622437
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Mental warfare
It is easier to believe the lies than to consider the alternative.
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Mental warfare
It is easier to believe the lies than to consider the alternative.
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From Courtney Thomas, in our magazine: Ten years ago, students, administrators, and faculty at University of #Texas at Austin began brandishing dildos in a performance-art-style, nonviolent protest of campus concealed carry that earned national media attention. https://www.texasobserver.org/cocks-not-glocks-at-10/
#GunViolence #Austin #CentralTexas #FreeSpeech #activism #history
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From Courtney Thomas, in our magazine: Ten years ago, students, administrators, and faculty at University of #Texas at Austin began brandishing dildos in a performance-art-style, nonviolent protest of campus concealed carry that earned national media attention. https://www.texasobserver.org/cocks-not-glocks-at-10/
#GunViolence #Austin #CentralTexas #FreeSpeech #activism #history
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Frankreichs Verfassungsrat stoppt #SocialMediaVerbot für Kinder | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Frankreich-Verfassungsrat-kippt-Social-Media-Verbot-11414905.html #SocialMedia #SocialMediaBan #Meinungsfreiheit #FreeSpeech #Bildung #education #Medienkompetenz #Digitalkompetenz
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Frankreichs Verfassungsrat stoppt #SocialMediaVerbot für Kinder | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Frankreich-Verfassungsrat-kippt-Social-Media-Verbot-11414905.html #SocialMedia #SocialMediaBan #Meinungsfreiheit #FreeSpeech #Bildung #education #Medienkompetenz #Digitalkompetenz
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The dispute comes amid continuing political battles in Florida over what can be taught and discussed in classrooms. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/nri/indian-origin-professor-fired-over-short-story-assignment-sues-us-college-over-academic-freedom-sg6och83?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #US #teaching #english #freespeech
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“German court ruling on Israel-Nazi comparison is a step in the right direction”
by Marla Karnabach in Middle East Eye
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@iraq
@palestinenews“A German court this month decided that comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is protected legal speech, highlighting a growing conflict between constitutional protections and Berlin’s political commitment to Tel Aviv”
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“The recent judgement does not establish an unrestricted right for dissenters to compare Israel with Nazi Germany, nor does it dismantle German laws against Holocaust denial or incitement. Rather, it insists that criminal law cannot become an instrument for enforcing political consensus”
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #SettlerColonialism #Resistance #EradicateZionism #DecolonizePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah #Germany #Nazi #HolocaustDenial #FreeSpeech #Criminalization
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“German court ruling on Israel-Nazi comparison is a step in the right direction”
by Marla Karnabach in Middle East Eye
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
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@iran
@iraq
@palestinenews“A German court this month decided that comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is protected legal speech, highlighting a growing conflict between constitutional protections and Berlin’s political commitment to Tel Aviv”
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“The recent judgement does not establish an unrestricted right for dissenters to compare Israel with Nazi Germany, nor does it dismantle German laws against Holocaust denial or incitement. Rather, it insists that criminal law cannot become an instrument for enforcing political consensus”
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #SettlerColonialism #Resistance #EradicateZionism #DecolonizePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah #Germany #Nazi #HolocaustDenial #FreeSpeech #Criminalization
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Australia
Insanity prevails and no sign of courage. Politicians curl up into the fetal position, hoping all will be fine when they open their eyes.
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Australia
Insanity prevails and no sign of courage. Politicians curl up into the fetal position, hoping all will be fine when they open their eyes.
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CW: Randomly-generated conspiracy theory
Edward Jenner discovered that dark matter is killing all the bees but the scientific establishment is suppressing it because it would destroy our understanding of DNA. The global financial elite threatened to kill him to keep him quiet I used to be asleep like you , but then I saw the clues . You'd have to be stupid to think dark matter is real ,, and 'the global financial elite' is almost an anagram of 'honey'. WAKE UP !! #unfakenews #freespeech
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US judge tosses Harvard case branding Gaza solidarity as anti-Jewish terror
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The Quotation’s Chain of Custody
A mug sits on the desk with Marilyn Monroe's face under the sentence Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” The object is wrong at the name and prone to wording drift, and it keeps selling because the right sentiment can carry any name. The claim riding beside it has manners: why care whether the mug gives Monroe a line written by Ulrich, or whether a poster hands Voltaire a sentence built by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, so long as the line still stirs? Its appeal points to use over receipt. Its conclusion says the words have done good work in the world, and good work should settle the bill. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/14/the-quotations-chain-of-custody/
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The Quotation’s Chain of Custody
A mug sits on the desk with Marilyn Monroe's face under the sentence Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” The object is wrong at the name and prone to wording drift, and it keeps selling because the right sentiment can carry any name. The claim riding beside it has manners: why care whether the mug gives Monroe a line written by Ulrich, or whether a poster hands Voltaire a sentence built by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, so long as the line still stirs? Its appeal points to use over receipt. Its conclusion says the words have done good work in the world, and good work should settle the bill. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/14/the-quotations-chain-of-custody/
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Rather than accepting increasingly intrusive measures as inevitable,
Pirates call for evidence-based, proportionate and rights-respecting approaches to tackling online harms!Free society depends on free Internet!
Join our campaign: https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.com/
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Rather than accepting increasingly intrusive measures as inevitable,
Pirates call for evidence-based, proportionate and rights-respecting approaches to tackling online harms!Free society depends on free Internet!
Join our campaign: https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.com/
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The Government is Monitoring Anti- #Flock #TikTok and #Instagram Accounts
https://www.404media.co/the-government-is-monitoring-anti-flock-tiktok-and-instagram-accounts/
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The Government is Monitoring Anti- #Flock #TikTok and #Instagram Accounts
https://www.404media.co/the-government-is-monitoring-anti-flock-tiktok-and-instagram-accounts/
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Australia
Protesting against Hanson will not fix the problem. Hanson is a symptom of the problem.
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Australia
Protesting against Hanson will not fix the problem. Hanson is a symptom of the problem.
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The Fake Free Speech President Has Unleashed ICE On Its Critics
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The Fake Free Speech President Has Unleashed ICE On Its Critics
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I’m sure it’ll be appealed, but it’s not nothing!
Judge Dismisses Federal #Antisemitism Case Against #Harvard
Judge Richard G. Stearns of the US District Court in Massachusetts granted Harvard’s motion to throw out the case, saying the antisemitic incidents cited in the administration’s March lawsuit were “too isolated and episodic” to show that Harvard is out of compliance with the law.
#law #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #Trump #censorship #dictatorship #autocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/13/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.5FA.rsVb.K1h3ORTqfRZX&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
I’m sure it’ll be appealed, but it’s not nothing!
Judge Dismisses Federal #Antisemitism Case Against #Harvard
Judge Richard G. Stearns of the US District Court in Massachusetts granted Harvard’s motion to throw out the case, saying the antisemitic incidents cited in the administration’s March lawsuit were “too isolated and episodic” to show that Harvard is out of compliance with the law.
#law #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #Trump #censorship #dictatorship #autocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/13/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.5FA.rsVb.K1h3ORTqfRZX&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
In honor of @La_Keka, who (along with the moderators) hates the truth and loves to silence those who speak it:
a reminder that #nuclear kills fewer people per kilowatt-hour of electricity produced than either #wind or #solar. If you specify "U.S. nuclear", we're literally talking by orders of magnitude.https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/
Note; I am NOT against wind or solar! I'm not even fundamentally pro-nuclear. I am pro #truth, and pro #freespeech.
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Australia - Data Centres
The government will want to hide the incompetence of NBNco if it wants to attract investors.
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Australia - Data Centres
The government will want to hide the incompetence of NBNco if it wants to attract investors.
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Australia
Is more authoritarian legislation being rubber stamped because it is impossible to control the narrative; as the lies collapse. People seem to be required to either support the lies or shut up; else be shut up.
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Australia
Is more authoritarian legislation being rubber stamped because it is impossible to control the narrative; as the lies collapse. People seem to be required to either support the lies or shut up; else be shut up.
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@strk "Moderation tools are being used for ideological policing." This.
You dared to have an opinion that didn't match their authoritarian views.
Similar to if you had said Taiwan exists to the CCP. Or anything negative about Putin in Russia.
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@strk "Moderation tools are being used for ideological policing." This.
You dared to have an opinion that didn't match their authoritarian views.
Similar to if you had said Taiwan exists to the CCP. Or anything negative about Putin in Russia.
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UW is backtracking on Hasan Piker now and blaming "process" mistakes.
ok, yea sure.
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UW is backtracking on Hasan Piker now and blaming "process" mistakes.
ok, yea sure.
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
All the governments of the world adopt elaborate methods of concealing truths which they consider undesirable, and inflict various forms of penalty upon those who spread knowledge which is thought bad for the population This applies especially to knowledge of the kind which is considered seditious, and the kind which is considered obscene. I shall not give instances, since, if I did, I should myself fall under the ban of the law.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual versus the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/853…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #censorship #control #freepress #freespeech #government #knowledge #obscenity #pornography #publicgood #sedition #suppression #treason #truth
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
All the governments of the world adopt elaborate methods of concealing truths which they consider undesirable, and inflict various forms of penalty upon those who spread knowledge which is thought bad for the population This applies especially to knowledge of the kind which is considered seditious, and the kind which is considered obscene. I shall not give instances, since, if I did, I should myself fall under the ban of the law.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual versus the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/853…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #censorship #control #freepress #freespeech #government #knowledge #obscenity #pornography #publicgood #sedition #suppression #treason #truth
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Fuck this Judge Tim O'Hare asshole. 🚓 🚨
A speaker used profanity at a Tarrant Commissioners Court meeting. He was arrested a week later
"I think we have seen a much more hostile treatment towards citizens and residents showing up at public government meetings. That hostility definitely has been the strongest within the Tarrant County Commissioners Court."
#KERA #FortWorth #TimOHare #FreeSpeech #TarrantCounty #Texas #TXPolitics #PenelopeRivera #EJCarrion #Vote
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Fuck this Judge Tim O'Hare asshole. 🚓 🚨
A speaker used profanity at a Tarrant Commissioners Court meeting. He was arrested a week later
"I think we have seen a much more hostile treatment towards citizens and residents showing up at public government meetings. That hostility definitely has been the strongest within the Tarrant County Commissioners Court."
#KERA #FortWorth #TimOHare #FreeSpeech #TarrantCounty #Texas #TXPolitics #PenelopeRivera #EJCarrion #Vote
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White hairs freak me out. They remind me of where I am and when. They remind me of what I haven't been able to start due to the situation in #Venezuela and stuff. They wouldn't be a problem if human rights where a thing here. I wanna be myself. 🙄
#trans #mentalhealth #transrights #rant #freedom #freespeech #humanrights
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White hairs freak me out. They remind me of where I am and when. They remind me of what I haven't been able to start due to the situation in #Venezuela and stuff. They wouldn't be a problem if human rights where a thing here. I wanna be myself. 🙄
#trans #mentalhealth #transrights #rant #freedom #freespeech #humanrights
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#DHS Wants Protesters’ #Signal Group #Chats
A lawsuit accuses #HomelandSecurity of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffs’ #encrypted communications.
#privacy #freespeech #protesters #rightshttps://www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-protesters-signal-group-chats/
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#DHS Wants Protesters’ #Signal Group #Chats
A lawsuit accuses #HomelandSecurity of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffs’ #encrypted communications.
#privacy #freespeech #protesters #rightshttps://www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-protesters-signal-group-chats/
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If you're in the U.S., you want to talk about this stuff, and you don't already have a large platform/following: please, please, just use a #VPN and an anonymous account. Give them as little as possible. It's vitally important to talk about these issues, but it's not worth having rancid demons show up on your doorstep, waiting to rob you of the precious little freedom you still enjoy.
via @404mediaco
https://www.404media.co/the-government-is-monitoring-anti-flock-tiktok-and-instagram-accounts/
#uspol #USPolitics #cybersecurity #freespeech #TikTok #instagram
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If you're in the U.S., you want to talk about this stuff, and you don't already have a large platform/following: please, please, just use a #VPN and an anonymous account. Give them as little as possible. It's vitally important to talk about these issues, but it's not worth having rancid demons show up on your doorstep, waiting to rob you of the precious little freedom you still enjoy.
via @404mediaco
https://www.404media.co/the-government-is-monitoring-anti-flock-tiktok-and-instagram-accounts/
#uspol #USPolitics #cybersecurity #freespeech #TikTok #instagram
