#freedomofspeech — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #freedomofspeech, aggregated by home.social.
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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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Vance warned us about Europe’s ‘threat from within.’ Poland proved him right
On Sunday, Sept. 6, roughly 29,000 Poles paid a television station’s government bill. The station is Telewizja Republika,…
#Europe #EU #Censorship #Freedomofspeech #JDVance #Media #NATO #Poland #statedepartment #Trumpadministration
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Vance warned us about Europe’s ‘threat from within.’ Poland proved him right https://www.byteseu.com/2353956/ #Censorship #Europe #FreedomOfSpeech #JdVance #Media #NATO #Poland #StateDepartment #TrumpAdministration
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Vance warned us about Europe’s ‘threat from within.’ Poland proved him right
On Sunday, Sept. 6, roughly 29,000 Poles paid a television station’s government bill. The station is Telewizja Republika,…
#Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #Censorship #europe #FreedomofSpeech #JDVance #Media #NATO #StateDepartment #TrumpAdministration
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Apple and Google will be forced to block explicit images on children’s smartphones by law in the UK.
This should concern everyone because someone ELSE gets to define "child" and "explicit" however they want.....
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Apple and Google will be forced to block explicit images on children’s smartphones by law in the UK.
This should concern everyone because someone ELSE gets to define "child" and "explicit" however they want.....
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Apple and Google will be forced to block explicit images on children’s smartphones by law in the UK.
This should concern everyone because someone ELSE gets to define "child" and "explicit" however they want.....
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Apple and Google will be forced to block explicit images on children’s smartphones by law in the UK.
This should concern everyone because someone ELSE gets to define "child" and "explicit" however they want.....
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Apple and Google will be forced to block explicit images on children’s smartphones by law in the UK.
This should concern everyone because someone ELSE gets to define "child" and "explicit" however they want.....
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VRIJHEID VAN MENINGSUITING
AUB DELEN IPV LIKEN‼️
Voor jou én iedereen hier op Mastodon, en op Pixelfed Peertube en de vele andere echt sociale netwerken
En op de écht vrije democratische vrijheid van meningsuiting ‼️‼️‼️USA heeft een Europees internet hostingnetwerk offline gehaald en als terroristen betiteld ‼️
Ongeacht of je vindt dat ook antifa een platform mag hebben
Denk je in :
Wij hier halen ON (=fascistische omroep) uit het publieke bestel⁉️>≥> usa haalt een platform offline waar ook Antifa, protesteerders tegen fascisme, hun mening kunnen uiten⁉️
Luister vooral even een kwartiertje naar de podcast van NRC
Daarin wordt heel erg helder e.e.a uitgelegdHet is nu tijd om van democratie een werkwoord te maken
#vrijheidvanmeningsuiting #antifa #EU #NL #nieuws
#politiek #usa #democratie democracy #news #politics #freedomofspeech #webhosting #fediverse #socials #internethttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistici/Inventati
https://www.inventati.org/who/
NRC Vandaag: Zo bepalen de VS wie online mag bestaan – ook in Europa
Website van aflevering: https://art19.com/shows/vandaag
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The Orwellian machinery critics are desperate to protect is the algorithms, not laws that seek to reduce harm | Ed Coper
By Ed CoperCritics of Australia’s digital duty of care bill stand in defence of the right of platforms to promote harm over health, rage over reason, and fake over fact
#Socialmedia #Australianews #Digitalmedia #Freedomofspeech #Australianpolitics #Socialmediaban #TheGuardian #EdCoper
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Leaked documents reveal the FBI is quietly tracking people who moan about AI on social media - FBI scanning social media for 'anti-tech extremism"
'Anti-tech Extremism' - NAACP legal team warns these 'suspicious activity reports' are incredibly unreliable and allows officers to inject their own biases
#AI #DataCenters #AntiTechExtremism #Rights #Constitution #Liberties #FreedomOfSpeech #WarrantlessTracking #Americans #ExerciseRights #Targeted #Government #CyberStalking
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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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“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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#kuwait #usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #gulfstates / #domesticpolicy / #humanrights / #journalism / #repression / #nationalunity / #erosion
„The #detention of a prize-winning international journalist over his reporting of a friendly fire incident in Kuwait is raising questions about the crackdown on #freedomofspeech across the #MiddleEast as a result of the US-Israel war with Iran, the #CommitteetoProtectJournalists has warned.“
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Oh! Children and teenagers in swimwear is now sexual abuse material! So I guess now you can go to jail for making a photo of your own children on a beach, or making a selfie on a beach or at a swimming pool where random children or teenagers are running around in the background!
"Pictures of teenage girls and children were altered to show them wearing swimwear, leading experts to say some of the content could be categorised as child sexual abuse material."
The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/10/elon-musk-uk-free-speech-x-ban-grok-ai
Maybe it's purpose is an excuse so that police can freely, frivolously, arbitrarily and wantonly break into anyone's home and rob them of their essential documents, phones and computers to intimidate them away from criticizing the government or living a nonconformist lifestyle?
#csam #childpornography #childporn #freedomofspeech #freespeech #thoughtcrime #contempt #swimwear #totalitarianism #kafkaesque
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🚨 BREAKING: Authoritarian regime plays the "blame the West" card while pulling the old "Internet blackout" trick 🌐🔌. Meanwhile, citizens just trying to Google "how to fix my insane government" get 404 errors. 🙃
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protests-internet-blackout-khamenei-vows-not-back-down-trump-threat/ #Authoritarianism #InternetBlackout #BlameTheWest #FreedomOfSpeech #DigitalResistance #HackerNews #ngated -
Painting on paper: Ambiguous impulses for mental cinema!
#contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #policeofficer #policeForce #nightstick #baton #government #polizeigewalt #staatsgewalt #demonstrationsrecht #meinungsfreiheit #freedomofspeech #astronaut #spaceSuit #outerSpace #innerSpace #spaceTravel #ressources #earthOvershootDay #sustainability -
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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Starmer welcomes war criminals - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ylxn8g2y2o
#IsraeliDestructionForces #IsraeliDeathFascists #Gaza #Westbank #Lebanon #Syria #Yemen #Iran #Qatar #Maccabi #MaccabiTelAviv #BobVylanIsRight #FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight #Zionists #Zionism #PalestineAction #Palestine #FreedomOfSpeech
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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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Signs are done for tomorrow's #NoKings march. Now to pack the safety bag.
Be safe out there everyone - and lets get to that magic 3.5%
#NonViolence #FreedomOfSpeech #ICE #PublicMedia #NPR #PBS #OrangeClown #3.5% -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gob_PnR4fI
#DiEM25 (and #DemocracyNow) #MERA25
#MelanieSchweizer & #YannisVaroufakis Expose the Truth Behind Europe's War Agenda
As #Europe gathered for the #MunichSecuritySummit , Yanis V and #MERA25 candidate Melanie Schweitzer issue a stark warning:
The Europe peace project is being hijacked by warmongers, #corporate interests and rising #authoritarian forces.Among many key point, Melanie said #Germany's situation is dire: a blatant Attack on #freedomofassembly, #freedomofspeech, #crisisofdemocracy, etc. She also said the #GreenPartyGermany 🤢 , #DieLinke , moderates like the #SPD, etc have taken over the rhetoric and policies of the #farright (EX: #FrancescaAlbanese is banned from speaking in Germany, etc) It sounds like a nightmare.
#EUisNotaWarUnion #FIGHTBACK #extrêmedroite #FCKAfD #FCKNZS #Election2025
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Please do follow “VIU Prized Real Estate” on Insta for all the updates on this precious piece of greenery.
https://www.instagram.com/viuprizedrealestate/
#Satire #VIU #UniversityProtests #IsraelGaza #FreePalestine #FreedomOfExpression #FreedomOfSpeech
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The US state of Utah releases its first list of banned books.
«They want to make it so that if one or two parents or school board members don’t like a book, they can easily take it away from every single resident in the state.»
Well beyond merely ironic to use democracy as the delivery vehicle for a policy of tyrannical rule by minority.
I also have come to think it not coincidental that our plutocratic overlords are devising schemes like this, which I see as the political analogs of leveraged buyouts, which also allow one power beyond what seems like should be their rightfully earned means, distorting the natural checks and balances of a market, democracy here being the marketplace of ideas.
A number of recent political moves have had this shape, not least of which the capture of the Supreme Court and really brazen exploitation of its power to bootstrap other independent power structures, leaving themselves as gatekeepers, but making these less regulated structures more untouchable.
Capture of the voting structures locally in each state feels like another. Privatization of government services is another. Injecting religion into the public sphere is another. The according of protected rights to corporations ("legal people") is another. In my mind, these all share a common tactical structure of exploiting a legislative weakness to create an unchecked power structure.
Further to the death of irony, too, the GOP wrongly complains, and recently offers Project 2025 as alleged antidote, that FDA, CDC, NOAA, and other science-based agencies are on par, doing the same. They want party loyalists installed there to keep science more responsive to the ruling party. As if that science is a thing one can or should vote on. But then they create their own similarly extragovernmental groups and processes but make no effort to make THOSE groups responsive to party.
It leaves me flabbergasted.
https://www.themarysue.com/utah-releases-first-list-of-books-to-be-banned-statewide/
#FreeSpeech #BookBan #BookBanning #UtahBookBanning #LBO #SCOTUS #democracy #privatizing #politics #FreedomOfSpeech
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#TheMetalDogArticleList
#BLABBERMOUTH
MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE On Singing About Political Issues: 'I Don't Try And Tell People In My Songs What To Do'#Megadeth #DaveMustaine #PoliticalIssues #RockTheVote #Voting #CivilMatters #HeavyMetalMusic #MetalCommunity #WhiteHouse #FreedomOfSpeech #CivilDiscourse #IndependentThinker #NonPartisan #MediaAttention #NegativePartisanship #Republican #Democrat #VocalBeliefs
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It's curious that we can talk about various animals having higher sensory abilities. Yet. When we talk about people and what some call extra sensory abilities many upset themselves and say that's not real. People that say they experience those things are crazy or faking it or scamming people.
When in truth it's not extra sensory abilities. It's just sensory abilities. People that are not fully using their senses, that they do have, are the ones saying it's extra or crazy talk.
Knowledge and awareness is being hidden from the masses to keep them under control and the ignorant are the tools being used to keep the social narrative in check for those controlling the narrative of discourse.
There are plenty of false conspiracy theories out there. But there are actual conspiracies as well.
#RaiseTheNarrative #FreedomOfSpeech #SensoryAwareness
#Consciousness
#Conspiracy
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The open realities of reincarnation within the narrative discourse of society would upend class divides and the subjugation brought upon by the pecking orders of shallow minded nepotism.
#Reincarnation #Nepotism #PeckingOrder #RaiseTheNarrative #Discourse #Subjugation #Freedom #FreedomOfSpeech
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I sometimes have issues with enunciating. When I was a little kid I had to take a speech class because some of my words came out pronounced oddly. Almost like it was a very heavy accent from somewhere else.
Later in life when I dealt more with memories, of what appears to be certain past lives I experience things from, I realized it was most likely what some would call a very deep Scottish brogue that still resides in me wanting expression.
There's so much more I could say...
#Reincarnation #Accent #Scotland #PastLives #Language #FreedomOfSpeech #RaiseTheNarrative #SocialDiscourse
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Look and see, or don’t, what you want. But light is coming forward and more of us (which includes everyone) are awakening to truth.
It’s time to learn abilities of response to the light coming in, or deal with the ramifications of not having those responsibilities.
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Most of this life I have felt like others wanted me to shut up and sit down. That in my case children like me shouldn’t be heard or truly seen.
I shouldn’t upset people’s senses of where their at. As if I’m the one that’s responsible for where they are at.
I saw much of my life and world events ahead as a child in visions. Yet the narrative of society refuses to allow that conversation. Instead the narrative of discourse of society dismisses truth and those that are bold enough to speak for it.
I don’t say that as if: look at me or listen to me.I say it as: those of us who see have a right to be present. We have a right to be at the table. We have a right to speak truth. We have a responsibility, an ability of response, to look out for each other.
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It's curious to me that people find it easier to believe a child who remembers being a "regular person" in a past life. But when a child remembers a past life where they were someone "famous" people have a harder time believing it to be true.
Is this due to those peoples own issues of self worth?
Even more curious since our worth comes from beyond our selves - our worth comes from our connection to our souls and all that is.
#PastLives #Reincarnation #Spirit #SpiritualConsciousness #Freedom #RaiseTheNarrative #RaiseVoices #FreedomOfSpeech
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This makes me think of all the stories about #EdgarCayce and how he used to be able to put a book under his pillow and fall asleep and he would absorb the contents while asleep. He was called the sleeping prophet after all.
The experience of life is so very different than the domesticated entrainment that is thrown at us from those who control the narrative of discourse of society.
#freedomofspeech #raisethenarrative #socialdiscourse #princeharry #spare
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I just got my copy of Spare. It’s pretty interesting the depth of what I’m sensing from just having the book in front of me. I’m going to have to read a bit today. First I need to process just having it next to me. As weird as that may sound to some people. I was thinking of reading it on my flight to Sedona on Sunday morning but not sure if I want to read it around others if I’m already feeling what I am.
#freedomofspeech #raisethenarrative #socialdiscourse #princeharry #spare
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One of the reasons I follow & care about what happens to Prince Harry is because I saw in a vision Princess Dianna's death the Sunday before it happened.
Yes. These are actual realities people deal with.
One of the other reasons is that I am a compassionate person & care about others well-being. He has a right to a voice & freedom from institutional subjugation.
#FreedomOfSpeech #PrinceHarry #PrincessDiana #RoyalFamily #Compassion #Visions #Subjugation #RaiseTheNarrative #SocialDiscourse
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We #Live in a #Society that allows itself, and the #Narrative of that society, to be controlled by those with limited to no experiences of actual reality. When we speak out we are told we are the #Delusional ones, by those unable to see through their own projections of illusion/delusion.
The narrative of society has to be freed from this grip of #Insanity of those that know no better.
#TranscendTheSpell
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CW: birb app shenanigans
here is an explainer article from #techdirt by ari cohn and berin szoka on why the whole notion of "content moderation based only on the first amendment" would fall apart quickly
#protectection #supression #speech
#firstamendmdent #freedomofspeech
#platformfutures #socialmediadiscourse
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CW: birb app shenanigans
here is an explainer article from #techdirt by ari cohn and berin szoka on why the whole notion of "content moderation based only on the first amendment" would fall apart quickly
#protectection #supression #speech
#firstamendmdent #freedomofspeech
#platformfutures #socialmediadiscourse
#freedomofexpession #socialmediamigrant -
CW: birb app shenanigans
here is an explainer article from #techdirt by ari cohn and berin szoka on why the whole notion of "content moderation based only on the first amendment" would fall apart quickly
#protectection #supression #speech
#firstamendmdent #freedomofspeech
#platformfutures #socialmediadiscourse
#freedomofexpession #socialmediamigrant
