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As a bonus, smoking gun evidence that proprietary platforms don't really care about freedom of expression when it matters, despite their handwaving about "free speech" when it suits them;

@mysk
> Meta insisted it wasn’t a bug. When we published videos demonstrating the issue, they asked YouTube to take them down. YouTube removed one video and gave us a strike

They don't care about freedom of the press, so we must.

#FreeSpeech#FreedomOfExpression

The proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group starts tomorrow.

This is a dangerous escalation in the criminalisation of political dissent in the UK.

It’ll increase surveillance, particularly under the Prevent Duty, and censorship under the Online Safety Act.

Read our blog ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/banning-palestine-action-how-the-uk-government-is-silencing-dissent/

#palestineaction #freedomofexpression #preventduty #ukpolitics #ukpol #protest #palestine #freespeech

At the heart of this decision is the logic of ‘pre-crime’.

Where the state intervenes not just against unlawful acts, but also against political expression that it considers might become threatening.

This turns activism into extremism. Legitimate political demands into a national security threat.

#palestineaction #freedomofexpression #preventduty #ukpolitics #ukpol #protest #palestine #freespeech

As there’s no public evidence of any link to terrorism or support of terrorist groups from Palestine Action, Open Rights Group supports their decision to appeal proscription.

While we may have differing opinions on their tactics, we stand against this attack on their right to exist and speak out.

#palestineaction #freedomofexpression #preventduty #ukpolitics #ukpol #protest #palestine #freespeech

The first half of this made more sympathetic to ZuckerBorg's position. Which made me puke into the back of my mouth as soon as I noticed it, but that's how unimpressive I found their discussion.

"Legacy media" is DOGE phrase. Huh? This was already a descriptive term for pre-digital media during Occupy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/podcasts/hardfork-meta-zuck-o3.html

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#podcasts #NYTimes #Platforner #HardFork #FreedomOfExpression

"But there's also this weird reality where 20-30 years ago everybody on the left were the free speech absolutists. We wanted to democratise speech, and we did. And we empowered everybody to participate in stuff.

Then a bunch of people who we didn't realise were also being silenced by mainstream corporate media, used the tools we were creating, and started saying stuff, and doing stuff. And that ... is super complicated."

@rabble, 2025

https://decentered.co.uk/building-participatory-media-with-evan-henshaw-plath-aka-rabble/

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#FreedomOfExpression

The more things change ...

"I gotta think of something to say besides 'fuck'. I think you can say 'fuck', it's a free country. Oh I'm sorry, that's right, you almost probably can't get an abortion soon, and then you won't be able to say 'fuck'. I just wanna say, you should be able to have a fucking abortion, that's right."

#EddieVedder, Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged, 1992

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7gbiX9c-so

#music #grunge#PearlJam#FreedomOfExpression#ReproductiveRights

Oh the irony of US liberals finally realising that online censorship is akin to book burning;

https://deer.social/profile/did:plc:x6iwiot43norkasv6mnxvfgs/post/3lo2oza3tzs2v

After a decade of calling for and defending it, and calling anyone who challenged them on it - even from the radical left - a Nazi sympathiser. Fortunately for them, our principled defence of freedom of thought and expression is immune to their shortsighted, partisan hypocrisy.

#censorship #BookBurning #FreedomOfExpression