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

  2. 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.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/07/arkansas-advocate-judge-denies-effort-to-block-arkansas-outlets-from-publishing-details-about-data-center-agreement/
  3. 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

  4. 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

    bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaig

    #DemocracyNOW #UK #BigBrother

  5. 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.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/arkansas-advocate-judge-weighing-whether-to-block-arkansas-news-outlets-from-publishing-data-center-pact-details/
  6. Australia

    Insanity. Thinking we know which bits are true.

    #auspol #democracy #freespeech

  7. RE: lawoffice.social/@barry/117225

    They don't silence the speaker. They designate the host a terrorist and let the banks do the killing. #AutisticiInventati — 16k mailboxes, 10k blogs — all gone as of today to shield users from secondary sanctions. No court. No jury. Just an EO. The kill-chain is complete: criminalize the wires, freeze the accounts, call it national security. I know what silence costs. #SusanKlopferTruth

    The deep state weaponizes legal doctrine against infrastructure of dissent. Stay human. #FreeSpeech #AI #1A

  8. Australia in a world gone wrong

    The Australian government only cares about doing the bidding of the elites. They do not talk with people, listen to people nor act for people. They do deals and make decisions, while excluding all involvement of people. They say one thing and do something very different.

    #auspol #democracy #freespeech

  9. A judge blocked a California law restricting the use of the recycling symbol, ruling it likely violates free speech rights. #freespeech

    grist.org/accountability/is-th

  10. The Robin Byrd documentary on #hbo is really good. I was a little young when her show was on the air but I remember finding it a couple of times. It was as "New York" as it got.

    It's also very scary to realize we're seeing censorship of the media still as a major issue some thirty years later.

    #nyc #freespeech

  11. International relations

    US allies are now referred to as the "remaining allies", soon to be referred to as Australia!

    #auspol #democracy #freespeech #UKpol #USpol #EUpol

  12. Australian democracy

    Where the government never says what it is going to do next, because they have not been told.

    #auspol #democracy #freespeech

  13. Australia - Public good

    We have many laws making people accountable for their actions. We also need a mechanism to ensure governments are accountable for their actions. An assurance that government is acting in the interest of people, and not putting other agendas above the welfare of the general public.

    #auspol #democracy #freespeech

  14. A federal judge refused Friday to block the #Pentagon from firing 3 #StarsAndStripes staff members who claim they were illegally disciplined for speaking out about the #military news outlet’s need to maintain its editorial independence.

    Judge Trevor McFadden, who was nominated to the bench by #Trump ruled that the #journalists are unlikely to successfully prove that the Pentagon violated their #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech rights.

    #law #Constitution #FreePress #journalism
    apnews.com/article/stars-strip

  15. A quotation from Abraham Fortas

    Any departure from absolute regimentation may cause trouble. Any variation from the majority’s opinion may inspire fear. Any word spoken, in class, in the lunchroom, or on the campus, that deviates from the view of another person may start an argument or cause a disturbance. But our Constitution says we must take this risk, and our history says that it is this sort of hazardous freedom — this kind of openness — that is the basis of our national strength and of the independence and vigor of Americans who grow up and live in this relatively permissive, often disputatious, society.

    Abraham Fortas (1910–1982) American academic, jurist, lawyer; US Supreme Court Justice (1965–69)
    Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, 508 (1969) [majority opinion]

    More about this quote: wist.info/fortas-abe/13226/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abefortas #America #argument #belief #Constitution #control #debate #disagreement #dissent #disturbance #firstamendment #freespeech #freedom #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #heterodoxy #majority #openness #opinion #popularopinion #SCOTUS #troublemaking #protest