#free-speech — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #free-speech, aggregated by home.social.
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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
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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
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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/ -
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RE: https://lawoffice.social/@barry/117225208312156174
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
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Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech http://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/4/stanford_daily_lawsuit_free_speech_fire #uspoli #FreeSpeech #FreePress #StandfordStudentNewspaper #TrumpRegime #journalism #TrumpFascism #GOPfascism
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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.
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A judge blocked a California law restricting the use of the recycling symbol, ruling it likely violates free speech rights. #freespeech
https://grist.org/accountability/is-the-recycling-symbol-free-speech-a-judge-just-ruled-it-could-be/
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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.
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International relations
US allies are now referred to as the "remaining allies", soon to be referred to as Australia!
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Australian democracy
Where the government never says what it is going to do next, because they have not been told.
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House Passes HR 4795, Putting Israel’s Business Interests Ahead of Your Financial Aid http://dlvr.it/TVLR08 #civilrights #congress #freespeech #highereducation
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Actual lols at this, the gaslighting fucks....
#HomeOffice #UKPol #UKpolitics #JustStopOil #PalestineAction #PatriotPlatform #Protest #FreeSpeech #Fascists #DannyTommo
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Poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor
https://kk.org/cooltools/the-1930-poetry-book-that-anthropic-tried-to-censor/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577244
#HackerNews #Poetry #Anthropic #Censorship #Literature #FreeSpeech
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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.
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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
https://apnews.com/article/stars-stripes-pentagon-censorship-c9cd2e453e6bb2e8ca5908e0581e6eca?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=copy_link -
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
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Australian Housing
If the government can build housing for US Military people, it can build housing for Australian people. Its as simple as that.
Corruption runs deep.
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Cost of corruption
Corruption incurs massive costs that extend far beyond financial losses. These hidden costs severely damage the economic stability of a nation, undermine political trust in institutions, and erode social cohesion within communities.
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Free speech? Charlie Kirk said what?
#trump #conversiontherapy #colorado #freespeech #uspol #christian
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33 Dems Help Pass House Bill That Would Strip Funds From Colleges That Boycott Israel
The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed what critics say could be one of the most severe…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #BDSMovement #breakingnews #Education #freespeech #Israel #Israelisettlements #Palestine #USCongress
https://www.newsbeep.com/717840/