#freedomofspeech — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #freedomofspeech, aggregated by home.social.
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The Guardian view on Russian parliamentary elections: glimpses of weakness behind the facade | Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/13/the-guardian-view-on-russian-parliamentary-elections-glimpses-of-weakness-behind-the-facade #Russia #VladimirPutin #Ukraine #VolodymyrZelenskyy #WorldNews #FreedomOfSpeech #Censorship
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The Guardian view on Russian parliamentary elections: glimpses of weakness behind the facade | Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/13/the-guardian-view-on-russian-parliamentary-elections-glimpses-of-weakness-behind-the-facade #Russia #VladimirPutin #Ukraine #VolodymyrZelenskyy #WorldNews #FreedomOfSpeech #Censorship
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The Guardian view on Russian parliamentary elections: glimpses of weakness behind the facade | Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/13/the-guardian-view-on-russian-parliamentary-elections-glimpses-of-weakness-behind-the-facade #Russia #VladimirPutin #Ukraine #VolodymyrZelenskyy #WorldNews #FreedomOfSpeech #Censorship
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The Guardian view on Russian parliamentary elections: glimpses of weakness behind the facade | Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/13/the-guardian-view-on-russian-parliamentary-elections-glimpses-of-weakness-behind-the-facade #Russia #VladimirPutin #Ukraine #VolodymyrZelenskyy #WorldNews #FreedomOfSpeech #Censorship
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The Guardian view on Russian parliamentary elections: glimpses of weakness behind the facade | Editorial
By EditorialThe Kremlin’s clumsy efforts to engineer the outcome reveal growing anxiety about the public mood and a war that is failing
#Russia #VladimirPutin #Ukraine #VolodymyrZelenskyy #Worldnews #Freedomofspeech #Censorship #TheGuardian #Editorial
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The Guardian view on Russian parliamentary elections: glimpses of weakness behind the facade | Editorial
By EditorialThe Kremlin’s clumsy efforts to engineer the outcome reveal growing anxiety about the public mood and a war that is failing
#Russia #VladimirPutin #Ukraine #VolodymyrZelenskyy #Worldnews #Freedomofspeech #Censorship #TheGuardian #Editorial
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The Guardian view on Russian parliamentary elections: glimpses of weakness behind the facade | Editorial
By EditorialThe Kremlin’s clumsy efforts to engineer the outcome reveal growing anxiety about the public mood and a war that is failing
#Russia #VladimirPutin #Ukraine #VolodymyrZelenskyy #Worldnews #Freedomofspeech #Censorship #TheGuardian #Editorial
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The Guardian view on Russian parliamentary elections: glimpses of weakness behind the facade | Editorial
By EditorialThe Kremlin’s clumsy efforts to engineer the outcome reveal growing anxiety about the public mood and a war that is failing
#Russia #VladimirPutin #Ukraine #VolodymyrZelenskyy #Worldnews #Freedomofspeech #Censorship #TheGuardian #Editorial
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Tony Greenstein: The most important half-hour of my life | by Greg Hadfield | Aug, 2026 | Medium
https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-important-half-hour-of-my-life-d03f7877a492
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Tony Greenstein: The most important half-hour of my life | by Greg Hadfield | Aug, 2026 | Medium
https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-important-half-hour-of-my-life-d03f7877a492
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Tony Greenstein: The most important half-hour of my life | by Greg Hadfield | Aug, 2026 | Medium
https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-important-half-hour-of-my-life-d03f7877a492
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Tony Greenstein: The most important half-hour of my life | by Greg Hadfield | Aug, 2026 | Medium
https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-important-half-hour-of-my-life-d03f7877a492
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Tony Greenstein: The most important half-hour of my life | by Greg Hadfield | Aug, 2026 | Medium
https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-important-half-hour-of-my-life-d03f7877a492
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Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling, Issues Apology For Calling Anti-Trans Groups "Anti-Rights"
The organization has stood up to dictators and death squads, but Rowling and the UK's anti-speech laws were apparently too much.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/amnesty-international-uk-caves-to?publication_id=994764&post_id=209276698
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The Double-Edged Sword of Digital Freedom: The Risks of Infinito.Nexus with Native Tor Support
⚠️ Disclaimer
This article was generated entirely by artificial intelligence without editorial review.
To publish this analysis quickly, I deliberately chose to release it without manual editing or fact-checking. The purpose of this article is not to provide a polished technical specification, but to stimulate discussion about the societal, ethical, and security implications of the next generation of Infinito.Nexus with native Tor support.
Some technical assumptions, predictions, or conclusions may therefore be incomplete, inaccurate, or open to debate. They should be understood as informed analysis rather than verified fact.
The scenarios described in this article are intended to illustrate both the opportunities and the risks of increasingly accessible privacy-preserving infrastructure. They do not advocate, encourage, or endorse illegal activity. The same technologies that can strengthen digital sovereignty, protect journalists, human rights organizations, researchers, and political opposition operating under censorship can also be misused by malicious actors.
The goal of this article is to encourage an open discussion about the consequences of making powerful decentralized infrastructure available to a much broader audience. As with encryption, Linux, Git, peer-to-peer networks, and the Internet itself, technological progress creates both new freedoms and new responsibilities.
Please read this article critically, verify important claims independently, and view it as a starting point for discussion rather than a definitive statement on the future of decentralized infrastructure.
Technology is neutral.
Whether it empowers democratic resistance or enables organized crime depends on the people using it.
With native Tor integration, Infinito.Nexus has the potential to fundamentally change how self-hosted infrastructure is deployed. It could become possible for anyone to create a completely private digital ecosystem with only minimal technical knowledge.
That prospect is both exciting — and concerning.
A World Beyond Traditional Surveillance
Today’s Internet relies heavily on centralized infrastructure.
Governments can subpoena cloud providers.
Internet Service Providers can monitor traffic.
Hosting companies know where servers are located.
DNS providers can suspend domains.
Payment providers can freeze accounts.
Social media platforms can remove communities.
Tor changes that equation.
By integrating Tor directly into the infrastructure layer instead of treating it as an optional add-on, organizations could operate entirely within Onion Services.
No public IP addresses.
No public DNS.
No visible server locations.
No conventional attack surface.
Infrastructure that was previously easy to discover suddenly becomes practically invisible to anyone outside the Tor network.
From Old Smartphones to Invisible Infrastructure
Perhaps the most disruptive consequence of native Tor support is that almost anyone could become an anonymous infrastructure operator.
Instead of renting a VPS or purchasing expensive server hardware, users could simply take an old smartphone, install a Linux distribution such as Droidian, deploy Infinito.Nexus, and immediately have a functional server reachable exclusively through Tor.
Modern smartphones already contain everything traditionally required for a small server:
- multicore ARM processors
- flash storage
- Wi-Fi and LTE connectivity
- extremely low power consumption
- integrated batteries acting as an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
Unlike conventional servers, smartphones can continue operating during short power outages without requiring any additional hardware.
Because all communication occurs through Onion Services, the physical location of the device becomes significantly harder to determine than traditionally hosted infrastructure.
A server could operate from:
- an apartment
- an office
- a vehicle
- a backpack
- a cabin
- virtually anywhere with Internet access
Instead of racks in a datacenter, entire organizations could operate from inexpensive commodity hardware.
Infrastructure that once required thousands of dollars could eventually fit inside a jacket pocket.
Organization Beyond Censorship
Perhaps the most transformative consequence of native Tor support is not anonymity itself — it is organization.
Modern democratic movements require far more than encrypted messaging. They need complete digital infrastructure.
Imagine a group deploying the following services exclusively as Onion Services:
- Matrix for encrypted communication
- Nextcloud for document sharing
- OpenProject for task management
- Git for software development
- Wiki systems for documentation
- forums for public discussion
- video conferencing
- identity management with single sign-on
Every service is accessible only through Tor.
There are no public IP addresses.
There are no publicly reachable domains.
There is no central cloud provider that can simply terminate the infrastructure.
For political opposition movements operating under authoritarian governments, this could fundamentally change what is possible.
In countries such as Russia or Iran, governments have repeatedly attempted to restrict independent media, block communication platforms, and pressure hosting providers into taking services offline. A decentralized infrastructure based on Tor Onion Services makes these traditional forms of censorship considerably more difficult.
If one server disappears, another can be brought online using the same deployment automation and cryptographic identities.
Instead of relying on a single datacenter, an organization could distribute its infrastructure across many independently operated devices, including repurposed smartphones running Linux distributions such as Droidian. Every device becomes part of the organization’s digital backbone while remaining reachable only through the Tor network.
This significantly lowers the barrier to building resilient communication networks for journalists, NGOs, researchers, humanitarian organizations, and democratic opposition movements.
Building Invisible Organizations
Imagine an organization deploying:
- Identity Management
- Matrix
- Nextcloud
- Git
- Video Conferencing
- Project Management
- Forums
- Social Networks
- AI Infrastructure
Every service exists exclusively as an Onion Service.
Employees connect only through Tor.
No public domains.
No public IP addresses.
No externally visible services.
From the perspective of the public Internet, the organization barely exists.
A Powerful Tool for Democracy
For many people around the world, this would be an extraordinary step toward digital sovereignty.
Political opposition operating under authoritarian governments often faces:
- Internet censorship
- mass surveillance
- infrastructure seizures
- domain confiscation
- ISP monitoring
- targeted cyber attacks
A hidden smartphone consuming only a few watts of electricity could host secure communications for an activist movement.
Journalists could publish anonymously.
NGOs could coordinate without relying on commercial cloud providers.
Entire communities could communicate through infrastructure that is extremely difficult to discover or disable.
History repeatedly demonstrates that secure communication is one of the foundations of democratic resistance.
The Other Side of the Coin
Unfortunately, technology does not distinguish between good and bad actors.
The exact same infrastructure could also be deployed by:
- organized cybercrime
- ransomware groups
- illegal marketplaces
- extremist organizations
- terrorist networks
- large-scale fraud operations
- illegal trafficking
If deploying anonymous infrastructure becomes as simple as flashing Linux onto an old smartphone and clicking through an installation wizard, the barrier to entry changes dramatically.
What once required experienced Linux administrators could eventually become accessible to almost anyone.
A hidden smartphone server could host:
- a secure school collaboration platform
or
- an anonymous criminal marketplace.
Technically, there may be little difference.
The software cannot distinguish between them.
Risks for Democratic Societies
For democratic societies such as Germany, this presents a difficult challenge.
Security agencies often rely on information obtained from hosting providers, cloud operators, domain registries, DNS providers, or centralized communication platforms during investigations.
Infrastructure that exists exclusively as Tor Onion Services reduces the availability of these traditional investigative paths.
This can make investigations more difficult and more resource-intensive, especially when organizations are technically competent and operate their own infrastructure.
A terrorist cell, extremist group, or organized criminal network could theoretically operate:
- private Matrix servers
- encrypted file storage
- internal forums
- planning boards
- identity systems
- software repositories
- anonymous web services
all without relying on public-facing infrastructure.
That does not mean such groups become impossible to detect.
Tor does not make people invisible.
Law enforcement can still use endpoint forensics, undercover operations, financial investigations, human intelligence, surveillance of physical logistics, and mistakes made by suspects.
But the balance changes.
The stronger privacy technologies become, the harder traditional bulk surveillance and provider-based investigations become.
This is exactly why the same tools that protect dissidents in authoritarian states can also create serious challenges for law enforcement in democratic states.
The Democratization of Anonymous Infrastructure
Historically, operating Onion Services required substantial expertise.
Administrators needed to understand:
- Linux
- networking
- reverse proxies
- DNS
- Tor
- certificates
- firewalls
- application integration
Automation changes everything.
Eventually, the entire deployment process could become:
- Install Droidian on an old smartphone.
- Install Infinito.Nexus.
- Select the desired applications.
- Enable Tor support.
- Click Deploy.
Minutes later, an entire private infrastructure could be online.
No cloud provider.
No VPS.
No static IP.
No public DNS.
Infrastructure that previously required experienced system administrators becomes accessible to ordinary users.
That democratization is both empowering and dangerous.
Open Source Has Always Faced This Dilemma
This is not a new ethical problem.
Encryption protects:
- journalists
- dissidents
- criminals
VPNs protect:
- activists
- ransomware operators
Git is used to build:
- medical software
- malware
Linux powers:
- hospitals
- botnets
Artificial Intelligence can:
- accelerate scientific discovery
- generate phishing campaigns
Technology itself has no morality.
People do.
Infinito.Nexus Is Infrastructure
Infinito.Nexus is not being developed to create hidden criminal networks.
Its purpose is to simplify the deployment of sovereign, self-hosted infrastructure.
Native Tor support simply extends that philosophy.
The software itself does not decide who uses it.
The responsibility remains with those who deploy it.
The Ethical Challenge
Should powerful privacy technologies be withheld because they could be abused?
Or should society accept that technologies capable of protecting freedom will inevitably also be exploited by malicious actors?
There is no perfect answer.
Throughout history, almost every revolutionary communication technology — from the printing press to encrypted messaging — has been used for both constructive and destructive purposes.
Tor is no different.
Neither is Infinito.Nexus.
Technical Design
Native Tor support is currently being designed as a core networking feature of Infinito.Nexus.
Instead of treating Tor as an optional add-on, every deployed application can automatically receive its own Onion Service while remaining fully integrated into the deployment framework.
The current design proposal is publicly available:
Native Tor Support Requirements
https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/infinito-nexus-core/blob/feature/svc-net-tor/docs/requirements/031-svc-net-tor-onion.mdRelated projects:
Infinito.Nexus Core
https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/infinito-nexus-coreHetzner Arch LUKS
https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/hetzner-arch-luksLinux Image Manager
https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/linux-image-managerThese projects together lay the groundwork for a future where deploying fully encrypted, self-hosted, Tor-native infrastructure becomes almost as simple as installing a mobile app.
Conclusion
Native Tor support has the potential to fundamentally reshape how self-hosted infrastructure is deployed.
For the first time, individuals, NGOs, journalists, companies, and political opposition movements could build private digital ecosystems with remarkably little technical expertise.
At the same time, the same technology could lower the barrier for anonymous criminal infrastructure.
A discarded smartphone running Linux could become a resilient, battery-backed server hidden almost anywhere.
That reality is both inspiring and unsettling.
Like encryption, Linux, Git, VPNs, and the Internet itself, Infinito.Nexus is infrastructure.
Infrastructure does not decide how it is used.
People do.
The challenge for society is therefore not whether such technology should exist, but how we choose to live in a world where powerful privacy tools become accessible to everyone.
#Activism #AnonymousCommunication #AnonymousHosting #AnonymousInfrastructure #AnonymousServers #CensorshipResistance #CircumventingCensorship #Cybersecurity #Decentralization #DecentralizedInfrastructure #DevOps #DigitalRights #DigitalSovereignty #Droidian #EndToEndEncryption #FreedomOfSpeech #FullDiskEncryption #git #HumanRights #IdentityManagement #InfinitoNexus #InformationSecurity #InfrastructureAsCode #infrastructureAutomation #InternetCensorship #Iran #Journalism #Linux #LinuxServer #LUKS #Matrix #MatrixServer #MobileServer #NetworkSecurity #Nextcloud #NGOs #OnionServices #OpenSource #OpenProject #Privacy #PrivacyTechnology #RemoteUnlock #Russia #SecureCommunication #SecureInfrastructure #SelfHosting #SelfSovereignInfrastructure #SelfHostedInfrastructure #ServerHardening #SingleSignOn #SmartphoneServer #SSHOverTor #Tor #TorHiddenServices #TorHosting #TorNetwork -
OPEN CITY KINO – QUEER EDITION 🏳️🌈 [FREE]
COLA TAXI OKAY, Tuesday, June 23 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
OPEN CITY KINO – QUEER EDITION 🏳️🌈
Beim Open City Kino wollen wir gemeinsam ein gemütliches queeres Kinoerlebnis im COLA TAXI OKAY schaffen. Komm vorbei, lehne dich zurück und tauche mit uns in „Arab Love: Queer Lens“ ein – eine Initiative für ein globales Screening des Arab Film and Media Institute.
Wir schauen gemeinsam fünf Kurzfilme, die Themen wie LGBTQ+-Identitäten, Beziehungen, Selbstentfaltung und Gemeinschaft im ""arabischen"" SWANA Raum sowie in der Diaspora erkunden.
Komm vorbei – ob allein oder mit Freund*innen, du bist herzlich willkommen! Genieße mit uns einen besonderen Community-Filmabend. Dazu gibt es kühle, leckere Drinks und Popcorn.
Wann? 23. Juni, 20:00 Uhr
Wo? Kronenstr.25, 76133 @COLATAXIOKAY
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OPEN CITY KINO – QUEER EDITION 🏳️🌈
At Open City Cinema, we want to create a cozy and welcoming queer cinema experience together at COLA TAXI OKAY. Come by, sit back, and join us for “Arab Love: Queer Lens” – an initiative for a global screening by the Arab Film and Media Institute.
Together, we will watch five short films exploring LGBTQ+ identities, relationships, self-expression, and community across the Arab SWANA region and its diaspora.
Come along – whether on your own or with friends, you are warmly welcome! Enjoy a special community film night with us. There will also be cold drinks and delicious popcorn.
When? June 23, 8:00 PM
Where? Kronenstr. 25, 76133, @COLATAXIOKAY
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سينما المدينة المفتوحة – النسخة الكويرية 🏳️🌈
في سينما المدينة المفتوحة، نرغب في خلق تجربة سينمائية كويرية دافئة وتشاركية في COLA TAXI OKAY. انضموا إلينا، استرخوا، وشاركونا مشاهدة «Arab Love: Queer Lens»، وهي مبادرة لعرض عالمي من تنظيم معهد الفيلم والإعلام العربي.
سنشاهد معًا خمسة أفلام قصيرة تستكشف موضوعات هويات LGBTQ+، والعلاقات، والتعبير عن الذات، والمجتمع في منطقة سوانا العربية وفي الشتات.
تعالوا بمفردكم أو مع أصدقائكم، فالجميع مرحب به بحرارة! استمتعوا معنا بأمسية سينمائية مجتمعية مميزة، مع مشروبات باردة وفشار لذيذ.
متى؟ 23 يونيو، الساعة 20:00
أين؟ Kronenstr. 25, 76133، @COLATAXIOKAY
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OPEN CITY CINÉMA – ÉDITION QUEER 🏳️🌈
Avec Open City Cinéma, nous souhaitons créer ensemble une expérience cinématographique queer chaleureuse et conviviale à COLA TAXI OKAY. Viens t'installer confortablement et découvre avec nous « Arab Love: Queer Lens », une initiative de projection mondiale portée par l’Arab Film and Media Institute.
Nous regarderons ensemble cinq courts métrages qui explorent les identités LGBTQ+, les relations, l’expression de soi et les communautés dans la région (arabe) SWANA ainsi qu’au sein de sa diaspora.
Viens seul·e ou accompagné·e, t'es le bienvenu·e ! Partage avec nous une soirée cinéma communautaire spéciale. Des boissons fraîches et du délicieux pop-corn seront également proposés.
Quand ? 23 juin, 20h00
Où ? Kronenstr. 25, 76133, @COLATAXIOKAY
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OPEN CITY KINO – EDICIÓN QUEER 🏳️🌈
En Open City KINO queremos crear juntxs una experiencia cinematográfica queer acogedora y comunitaria en COLA TAXI OKAY. Ven, ponte cómodx y acompáñanos en “Arab Love: Queer Lens”, una iniciativa de proyección global del Arab Film and Media Institute.
Veremos juntxs cinco cortometrajes que exploran temas como las identidades LGBTQ+, las relaciones, la autoexpresión y la comunidad en la región árabe SWANA y su diáspora.
Ven solo, sola o con amigxs: ¡serás más que bienvenidx! Disfruta con nosotrxs de una noche de cine comunitaria muy especial. También habrá bebidas frías y deliciosas palomitas.
¿Cuándo? 23 de junio, 20:00 h
¿Dónde? Kronenstr. 25, 76133, @COLATAXIOKAY
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OPEN CITY SİNEMASI – QUEER EDİSYONU 🏳️🌈
Open City Sineması'nda COLA TAXI OKAY'da birlikte sıcak, samimi ve queer bir sinema deneyimi yaratmak istiyoruz. Bize katılın, arkanıza yaslanın ve Arab Film and Media Institute'un küresel gösterim girişimi olan “Arab Love: Queer Lens”i birlikte izleyelim.
Birlikte, Arap SWANA bölgesi ve diasporasındaki LGBTQ+ kimliklerini, ilişkileri, kendini ifade etmeyi ve topluluğu konu alan beş kısa film izleyeceğiz.
İster tek başınıza ister arkadaşlarınızla gelin, hepiniz hoş geldiniz! Bizimle birlikte özel bir topluluk film gecesinin tadını çıkarın. Ayrıca soğuk içecekler ve lezzetli patlamış mısır da olacak.
Ne zaman? 23 Haziran, saat 20:00
Nerede? Kronenstr. 25, 76133, @COLATAXIOKAY"https://keepkarlsruheboring.org/event/open-city-kino-queer-edition-free
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Legislation proposed to stop ‘lawfare’ targeting journalists and whistleblowers https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/17/slapps-legislation-stop-lawfare-journalists-whistleblowers #MediaLaw #PressFreedom #FreedomOfSpeech #LibelReform #Law #Politics #UkNews #Business #HouseOfLords #HouseOfCommons #JohnWhittingdale #Censorship #Media #Newspapers #DigitalMedia #NewspapersMagazines
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#CBS and #Paramount so far holding off on copyright claim against #StephenColbert for #OnlyInMonroe
#FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfPress #1stAmendment
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/25/nx-s1-5833860/colbert-only-in-monroe-viral-cbs-paramount
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A quotation from Henry Commager
Who are those who are really disloyal? Those who inflame racial hatreds, who sow religious and class dissensions. Those who subvert the Constitution by violating the freedom of the ballot box. Those who make a mockery of majority rule by the use of the filibuster. Those who impair democracy by denying equal educational facilities. Those who frustrate justice by lynch law or by making a farce of jury trials. Those who deny freedom of speech and of the press and of assembly. Those who press for special favors against the interest of the commonwealth. Those who regard public office as a source of private gain. Those who would exalt the military over the civil. Those who for selfish and private purposes stir up national antagonisms and expose the world to the ruin of war.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 3, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #civilliberties #civilrights #corruption #demagoguery #democracy #disloyalty #division #firstamendment #freepress #freespeech #freedomofreligion #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #injustice #jingoism #justice #loyalty #loyaltyoath #military #patriotism #publicoffice #religiousfreedom #unAmerican #usvsthem #votersuppression #votingrights #war #warmongering
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Das Motto des Internationalen Tages der Pressefreiheit am 3. Mai lautet heuer: „Eine Zukunft in Frieden gestalten: Pressefreiheit für Menschenrechte, Entwicklung und Sicherheit fördern.“
Während bei der World Press Freedom Day Global Conference am 04. und 05. Mai in Lusaka, Sambia, über diese Themen gesprochen wird, spinne, stricke und häkle ich im Atelier Mitzi für die Pressefreiheit: Mit meiner Handspindel stelle ich aus alten Zeitungen Papiergarn her. Daraus entstehen gehäkelte Körbe und gestrickte Stücke.
Ein herzliches Danke meiner wundervollen Tochter @hasi für die tollen Fotos!
https://www.unesco.at/kommunikation/pressefreiheit/artikel/article/welttag-der-pressefreiheit-2026
#Pressefreiheit #WorldPressFreedomDay #PressFreedom #peace
#HumanRights #FreedomOfSpeech #JournalismMatters
#Upcycling #SustainableArt
#Artivism #KunstUndPolitik
#CriticalArt
#SpeakThroughArt
#AltpapierUpcyceln #chrochet #spinning #knitting #paperyarn #zeitungsgarnspinnen #AtelierMitzi #wels #upcycelninwels -
Chizi: The Comedian Unburdened by Rebellion
Comedian Chizi, banned in China for political jokes, tours Asia. He now faces pressure to be a 'rebel' but wants to connect with audiences through personal stories.
#Chizi, #StandupComedy, #ChinaCensorship, #AsianTour, #FreedomOfSpeech
https://newsletter.tf/comedian-chizi-tours-asia-after-china-ban/
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Comedian Chizi, once banned in China, is now touring Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore. He is shifting from political jokes to personal stories to connect with audiences.
#Chizi, #StandupComedy, #ChinaCensorship, #AsianTour, #FreedomOfSpeech
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International day for freedom of Press ✒️✏️
Cartoonists get criticized
Many journalists are in prison or killed
Journalists always work against the clock
Keep our journalists and cartoonists safe#internationalday #news #democracy #freedomofpress #UN
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“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”*…
Today we have Substack and social media and blogs. In the old days, we “spoke” in person…
Speaker’s Corner, in Hyde Park in London, is a fabled site of on-going, open public speeches and debate. As Amelia Soth reminds us, that tradition also has a long history in the U.S…
There is nothing in American civic life today like Chicago’s old “Bughouse Square.” From the 1890s to the mid-1960s, it was a hotspot for soapbox speakers: radicals, evangelists, cranks, poets, philosophers, and eccentrics. Anyone with a perspective outside the mainstream gathered there nightly to declaim from their improvised podiums. The ethos, as one newspaper put it, was “free speech and the louder the better.” People actually came to listen, too, in crowds.
Bughouse Square (properly named Washington Square Park) might be the most famous free-speech center, but the practice of soapboxing stretched from sea to shining sea. New York City had its own crew of “peripatetic philosophers.” Hubert Harrison, known as the “Black Socrates,” delivered his critiques of capital right in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Then there was Portia Willis, the “suffrage beauty,” who drew in crowds with her looks and kept them with her wits.
As Mary Anne Trasciatti writes in “Athens or Anarchy? Soapbox Oratory and the Early Twentieth-Century American City,” the soapbox was a particularly democratic mode of public address. Even if you couldn’t get your cause into a meeting hall or a newspaper column, you could still hop on a box, lift your head a few inches above the crowd, and start talking. But that doesn’t mean just anyone could be a successful soapboxer. You had to be a good speaker to keep the crowds listening.
People tried all kinds of tricks to get attention. One soapboxer (wonderfully named Lowlife McCormick) would perform a Houdini-like escape from a straitjacket, which he would then declare to be a metaphor for the bonds of wage labor. Another would catch the crowd’s attention by shouting “I’ve been robbed! I’ve been robbed!” Once he had their ears, he’d finish up with “…by the capitalist system!” A really good soapboxer could draw in so many listeners as to render the streets impassable. One photo shows anarchist Alexander Berkman completely surrounded by a sea of hats.
But the attention soapboxing attracted wasn’t always positive. The 1910s saw a series of vicious “free speech fights” kick off in cities like Spokane, San Diego, and Fresno. Grace L. Miller lays out the history of perhaps the most violent of these struggles in “The I.W.W. Free Speech Fight: San Diego, 1912.” Things started to heat up when a deputy sheriff drove his car into a crowd of people listening to a socialist speaker. One listener reacted by slashing the sheriff’s tire. Within two days, the city passed an ordinance banning street speaking.
In response, the I.W.W. (the Industrial Workers of the World, or the “Wobblies”) urged supporters to ride the rails to San Diego and fight for their right to soapbox:
Come on the cushions; ride up on top;
stick to the brake beams; let nothing stop.
Come in great numbers; this we beseech;
Help San Diego to win free speech.Soapboxers descended on the town en masse. Each would step up on the box, say a word or two, and then get yanked off by the police and carried to jail. There’s even an old Wobbly joke about a speaker who starts his speech with the traditional salutation—“Fellow friends and workers”—and then, when he realizes no one’s coming to arrest him, panics and shouts “Where are the cops?!”
The Wobblies’ goal was to overwhelm the court system with free-speech cases until the city was forced to give up prosecuting soapboxers. Soon the jail was overflowing. But instead of following the legal process, the city discharged the arrestees right into the waiting arms of a vigilante gang, who drove the Wobblies to the county line and viciously beat them with axe handles.
It’s not exactly clear who the vigilantes were, but the gang may have been composed of some of the city’s most prominent citizens. A newspaper editor who was run out of town for his sympathy to the free-speechers wrote of them (as quoted by Miller): “The chamber of commerce and the real estate board are well represented. The press and public utility corporations, as well as members of the Grand Jury are known to belong.”
Yet the vigilantes went too far, and labor organizations called on the state government to intervene. The commissioner sent to investigate declared that the abuses he saw weren’t taking place in Tsarist Russia. At great personal cost, the Wobblies had put the concept of free speech to the test, and won…
When public oratory was a defining feature of civic life: “The Golden Age of the American Soapbox,” from @amelia-soth.bsky.social in @jstordaily.bsky.social.
* John Milton, Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicens’d Printing, to the Parliament of England
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As we speak up, we might ponder another Chicago-related phenomenon, recalling that it was on this date in 1986 that Geraldo Rivera made a “shocking discovery”:
#AlCapone #AlCaponeSVault #BughouseSquare #Chicago #culture #FreeSpeech #freedomOfSpeech #GeraldoRivera #history #oratory #politics #soapbox #SpeakersCorner #WobbliesNotorious and “most wanted” gangster, Al Capone, began his life of crime in Chicago in 1919 and had his headquarters set up at the Lexington Hotel until his arrest in 1931.
Years later, renovations were being made at the hotel when a team of workers discovered a shooting-range and series of connected tunnels that led to taverns and brothels making for an easy escape should there be a police raid. Rumors were spread that Capone had a secret vault hidden under the hotel as well.
In 1985, news reporter Geraldo Rivera had been fired from ABC after he criticized the network for canceling his report made about an alleged relationship between John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. It seemed like a good time for Rivera to scoop a new story to repair his reputation.
It was on this day [that] a live, two-hour, syndicated TV special, The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vault aired. After lots of backstory, the time finally came to reveal what was in that vault. It turned out to be empty. After the show, Rivera was quoted as saying “Seems like we struck out.”
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A quotation from Henry Commager
A nation which, in the name of loyalty or of patriotism or of a sincere and high-sounding idea, discourages criticism and dissent, and puts a premium on acquiescence and conformity, is headed for disaster.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1949-11-05), “What Ideas Are Safe?” Saturday ReviewMore about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #acquiescence #conformity #control #dissent #freespeech #freedomofspeech #freedomofthought #heterodoxy #intolerance #loyalty #orthodoxy #patriotism #security #intellectualfreedom
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@irina @EUCommission Also it's IMO gross violation of freedom of speech, freedom of association.
It is my opinion that the hypocritical mask of the West slipped and the true, contemptible, authoritarian, totalitarian nature of the so called Western alleged democracies is revealed.
#authoriatrianism #totalitarianism #mask #maskslipped #hypocrisy #narcissism #contempt #contemptible #west #western #democracy #democraticbacksliding
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Turkish Former Business Leaders Sentenced for ‘Disinformation’
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@sutaio Myšlenka v českém🇵🇭*) režimu nikdy trestněprávně stíhaná není. Skutečné myšlenkové zločiny český🇵🇭 režim nemá, na rozdíl od režimu v Orwellově románu 1984.
*) Je to filipínská vlajka a ne česká🇵🇭. Používám ji místo české🇵🇭, protože český🇵🇭 režim zavedl myšlenkový zločin 352/2001 Sb. § 13 ((2), (1) a)), § 1 ((2), (1) b)), § 7 (6) https://www.e-sbirka.cz/sb/2001/352/2022-01-01 ohledně české🇵🇭 vlajky, takže používám podobně vypadající vlajku, která prokazatelně není českou🇵🇭 vlajkou, aby se český🇵🇭 režim nemohl mstít za kritiku nebo dissent prostřednictvím lawfare. Cítím za to
e x t r é m n ě s i l n é o p o v r ž e n í
vůči českému🇵🇭 režimu.
#thoughtcrime #svobodaslova #freedomofspeech #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #urza
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@sutaio (Kráceno kvůli cenzuře Mastodontem)Jenže můj úmysl,a i můj deklarovaný úmysl,bylo právě použít jinou vlajku než českou🇵🇭*),a to ještě prokazatelně jinou vlajku než českou🇵🇭.Čili ani můj úmysl nebyl použít českou🇵🇭vlajku.
Pokud Češi🇵🇭 budou Filipíncům🇵🇭tvrdit, že filipínská🇵🇭vlajka je špatně namalovaná česká🇵🇭vlajka,myslím že to by bylo diplomat.a mezinár.dost hrubě drzé a odhaduju že Filipínci🇵🇭by v takovém případě kompletně zabanánovali českému🇵🇭režimu za to víza pro turisty, vyhodili velvysl. pokud tam vubec nějaký je, vyhostili přítomné Čechy🇵🇭a případně vyvodili ještě důraznější důsledky.
Myšlenkový zločin za vlajku je 352/2001 Sb. § 1 (2) "Státní symboly lze užívat jen vhodným a důstojným způsobem." (https://www.e-sbirka.cz/sb/2001/352/2022-01-01). Český🇵🇭režim opět dle mého názoru (DMN) selhal v základní povinnosti státu vůči občanu, a to poskytnout jednozn. právní normu. Zde není jednozn. co má znamenat "užít" a co "důstojným způsobem". Toto je ochrana pro případ, že by nějaký soudce tvrdil, že užití vlajky zahrnuje i použití emot. české🇵🇭vlajky a že použití v přísp. kritizujícím český🇵🇭režim je užití nedůst.
Ve Sb. co já vím není žádná práv. norma, která by podobným způs. omezovala použ. vlajky filipínské🇵🇭.
Touto DMN represivní práv. normou český🇵🇭režim dosáhl minim. u jednoho obč. toho, že místo české🇵🇭vlajky používá vlaj. filip.🇵🇭. Nevím, zda to byl úmysl čes.🇵🇭režimu.
Navíc tím DMN český🇵🇭režim pošlapává mé zákl. lidské a úst.právo svob.slova kdy chci použít emotikon české🇵🇭vlaječky pro vizuálně přehlednější označení slova český🇵🇭když český🇵🇭režim kritizuji.
*) Je to filipínská vlajka a ne česká🇵🇭. Používám ji místo české🇵🇭, protože český🇵🇭 režim zavedl myšlenkový zločin ohledně české🇵🇭 vlajky, takže používám podobně vypadající vlajku, která prokazatelně není českou🇵🇭 vlajkou, aby se český🇵🇭 režim nemohl mstít za kritiku nebo dissent prostřednictvím lawfare.
Cítím za to
e x t r é m n ě s i l n é o p o v r ž e n í
vůči českému🇵🇭 režimu.
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@alterelefant @mattsheffield Indeed. I made a new flag for America Rouge (my sarcastic name for the US regime) based on the style of the actual Khmer Rouge flag.
For the thought police of the Czech🇵🇭*) regime, EU🇪🇺 : this is meant as a criticism of Khmer Rouge and US regime, not their promotion.
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the US regime when it behaves as authoritarian as it does.
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Khmer Rouge regime when it murdered and killed so many people.
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech🇵🇭*) regime when it IMO behaves like a thought police and makes it a crime to express certain ideas to the point that I am afraid when criticizing authoritarian regimes to the point that I add a disclaimer that this is meant as a criticism . (Maybe the Czech🇵🇭*) regime aims to make criticism of authoritarian regimes illegal by indirect means of chilling effect?)
*) It's actually Philippine flag and not Czech🇵🇭 flag. I use it because the Czech regime has another thoughtcrime regarding the Czech🇵🇭 flag so I use a similar looking flag which is provably not the Czech🇵🇭 flag, so that the Czech🇵🇭 regime cannot retaliate for criticism or dissent via lawfare. I also feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech🇵🇭 regime for this.
Image © CC0 by Karel 'Clock' K., unedited AI output.
#censorship #thoughtcrime #thoughtpolice #authoritarianism #freedomofspeech #freespeech #dissent #criticism #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #eu #usa #trump #contempt #urza
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Monday, December 29, 2025
Explosions reportedly rock Russia's Khanskaya military airfield -- [VLOG] Ukraine This Year: a year of stalled peace and escalating war -- Russia strikes Kherson thermal plant, cuts residents from heating -- Russia, Ukraine agree temporary ceasefire near Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant for power line repairs ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/12/monday-december-29-2025/
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Texas teachers are being forced to deadname transgender students under a new state law
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-teachers-deadname-transgender-students
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"And nobody ever needed freedom of speech to say something nice." The debate about #FreedomOfSpeech, about what you can(not) say, divides society. If you want to interact with people in an earnest, meaningful way, you will have no desire to insult them. #democracy #DemocracyUnderThreat #democracyindanger
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Thursday, September 25, 2025
[vlog] We’re in another Cold War, British historian says -- Russian troops shoot family, use underage daughter as human shield in eastern Ukraine -- Ukraine struggles to keep hold of its next generation -- Ukraine’s message to Europe: You are under threat from Russia; We can help ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/09/thursday-september-25-2025/
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not only in war, however, that we fight for freedom. One fights for freedom in personal contacts and in many phases of civilian life. When the war is over, the four freedoms will not have been won, we shall simply have dominated their more aggressive enemies. At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom from fear, and freedom from want — for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war. At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want — for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-04-15), “My Day”More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/58…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #fighting #fourfreedoms #freespeech #freedom #freedomfighters #freedomfromfear #freedomfromwant #freedomofreligion #freedomofspeech #peacetime #religiousfreedom #security #war #welfare
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I addressed MCMC directly as a reminder that Malaysians have the right to reject authoritarianism. The people’s voice is the heartbeat of democracy, and trust in government must come from citizens, not coercion.
#Malaysia #Democracy #FreedomOfSpeech #MalaysianVoices #HumanRights #Reform #PeoplesVoice #FightInjustice #FreeMedia #NewMalaysia #OpenDialogue #BraveCitizens #AntiAuthoritarianism #CivilRights #PeoplePower
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brett-harper.com/2025/06/06/t... #TheHeritageFoundation is also behind #ProjectEsther which was a project designed to turn #AmericanJews against #Palestinian activists, using them to flag and deport them having a chilling affect on #FreedomofSpeech on college campuses across the #US.
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#Trump ends #foreignstudents' legal status🤦♂️
"judges in at least 7 states issued #emergency orders barring immigration auths fr acting against #students aft #government cancelled their legal basis for being in US.. A #federal #judge in Wisconsin ruled Tues tt e govt's action was likely #unlawful.. #US #Constitution guarantees #freedomofspeech for everyone in US regardless of #immigration status.. "every procedural safeguard in the book was blown past.""🧐
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#Quakers condemn arrests of #activists at meeting house
March 30, 2025
"The arrests of six female supporters of activist group #YouthDemand at a Quaker meeting house have been condemned by the faith group.
"Quakers in #Britain said the arrests were the first at a meeting house and 'an aggressive violation'.
"The Metropolitan Police said six people were arrested on Thursday evening at the Westminster Meeting House on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a #PublicNuisance.
"The force said it came amid concerns there were plans to 'shut down' London during April using tactics such as road blocks.
"Youth Demand said more than 30 officers were involved with making the arrests.
"Paul Parker, of Quakers in Britain, said he could not recall anyone being arrested at a Quaker meeting house in living memory.
"'The forceful removal of young people holding a protest group meeting clearly shows what happens when a society #CriminalisesProtest.
"'#FreedomOfSpeech, assembly, and fair trials are an essential part of free public debate which underpins #democracy,' he said.
"Police said a further five arrests for the same offence were made on Friday - four at addresses in #London and one in #Exeter.
"Youth Demand, which is not affiliated with the Quakers, said the meeting was 'an opportunity to share plans for non-violent #CivilResistance actions' due to take place in April.
"The group claimed a number of houses were also raided on Thursday and Friday as part of the operation.
"Quakers in Britain said: 'Quakers support the right to non-violent public protest, acting themselves from a deep moral imperative to stand up against #injustice and for our planet.
"'Many have taken non-violent direct action over the centuries from the abolition of #slavery to women's #suffrage and prison reform.'
"The Met said the force understood the importance of the right to protest but added that Youth Demand had stated an intention to 'shut down' London in April.
"'We have a responsibility to intervene to prevent activity that crosses the line from protest into serious disruption and other criminality,' a spokesman said.
"On Thursday, officers raided a Youth Demand planning meeting where those in attendance were plotting their April action.
"Six people were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.
"A further five arrests for the same offence were made on Friday, 28 March. Four of the arrests were at addresses in London and one in Exeter.
'Policing priorities'
"Out of the 11 people arrested, 10 have been released on bail and one will face no further action.
"Asked about the matter on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: 'I have made clear to the police this government's priorities for policing are reducing serious violence... and bringing back neighbourhood policing, those crimes in town centres like shoplifting.'
"Youth Demand, which describes itself as a 'new youth resistance campaign fighting for an end to #genocide', began carrying out acts of #CivilDisobedience last year.
"Its demands of the government include stopping all trade with #Israel and raising money from 'the #SuperRich and #Fossilfuel #elite' to pay damages for the effects of fossil fuel burning."
Read more:
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cj3x5j6g30ro
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Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #childsDrawing #cyTwombly #monkeys #chimpanzees #stencil #graffiti #streetArt #screamingLoud #despair #grief #penguins #noMouth #voiceless #speechless #censorship #excluded #freedomOfOpinion #freedomOfSpeech #silence -
The Fascist Trump Regime has sent a letter to Columbia University’s interim president and board of trustees that includes a list of demands the school must meet if it wants the regime to reverse its cancellation of $400 million in federal funds Columbia was authorized to receive. https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/columbia-university-letter-trump-administration-rcna196498. #MAGAwaronpress #MAGAwarOnEducation #FreedomOfSpeech #UsConstitutionAndCivilLibertiesMEWS
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🎭 Ah, the TAKE IT DOWN #Act, a hero without a cape, bravely attempting to "protect" #victims by bringing the world... wait for it... censorship! 🚫 Who knew safeguarding could be so ironically oppressive? 😂🔍
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/take-it-down-act-flawed-attempt-protect-victims-will-lead-censorship #TAKEITDOWN #censorship #irony #protect #freedomofspeech #satire #HackerNews #ngated -
"I’ve been writing about jawboning and free expression law for half a dozen years, and was on the receiving end of real-world state pressure to remove user speech from Google’s platforms for a decade before that. The longer I’ve thought about it, the less certain I’ve become about the right legal rules to protect users’ rights in jawboning situations.
I am not alone in thinking this issue is hard. Remarkably few First Amendment experts weighed in when the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed its first platform jawboning case, Murthy v. Missouri, in 2023-24. Some important civil liberties groups filed briefs that supported neither side. The plaintiffs in Murthy claimed that numerous platforms had suppressed their speech on topics such as Covid vaccine safety under state pressure, in the form of a wide variety of public and private statements by members of the Biden administration. The case presented the kind of context-dependent questions that have driven lower courts in jawboning cases to adopt an assortment of multi-factor tests. The Court in Murthy never got that far, though. It rejected plaintiffs’ factually problematic claims for lack of standing.
This post explores considerations that might shape analysis in future jawboning cases."
https://observatoriolegislativocele.com/this-is-hard/
#USA #FreedomOfSpeech #SocialMedia #ContentModeration #Censorship #Jawboning #FirstAmendment
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The sheer glee in his voice when John Woodcock talks about locking people up and taking away their rights of free association. This is not someone who should be permitted anywhere near legislation protecting our democracy, never mind writing reports for government about it.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-news-agents/id1640878689?i=1000655689259
#freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofassociation #ukpolitics #UKdemocracy #righttoprotest #NewsAgents
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X has #blocked accounts of @NavCom24 and @iScrew on its platform in India.
SFLC.in has been reporting on the blocking of social media accounts and websites. Please report any blocking cases you may have seen to us.
Send us an email at [email protected] or mention @sflcin.
#SFLCin #FreeSpeechMatters #India #FreedomOfSpeech #DigitalRights #WordsOnTrial #Blocking #Ban #Suspended #Withheld #X
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