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This is a subreddit for news and discussion about freedom of speech and voting rights from all around the world.

This is a subreddit for news and discussion about freedom of speech and voting rights from all around the world.

It also has rules

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 1. Offtopic content
 2. Shitposts
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 4. Posts without the point in the title
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Article 19 - UDHR

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

 

Relevant subreddits:

/r/AnythingGoesNews uncensored news
/r/undelete content removed from reddit
/r/HailCorporate covert advertising on reddit
/r/FirstAmendment not all there is to it
/r/GovernmentOppression not uncommon
/r/Censorship discussion of censorship
/r/privacy emphasis on technology
/r/WikiLeaks journalism at its finest
/r/LegalNews US and international law
/r/Tor Anonymous browsing
/r/CyberLaws Technology and the law
/r/aaronswartz Reddit founder, open data advocate
/r/snowden News about Edward Snowden and Prism
/r/reinstatearticle8 Fight UK censorship
/r/altnewz Uncensored news
/r/HumanRights Human Rights

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If someone is banned for being racist on a forum page that's a violation of free speech. But banning books about LGBT stuff from schools is totally fine.

Just trying to understand the nonsense of this sub. You can't be banned for racism of a subreddit becuase Free Speech but you CAN ban* books about LGBT stuff from schools. Real free speech of you.

*Its somehow not a ban its just removing them and not allowing them back which is different somehow.

98 Comments
2024/04/15
17:40 UTC

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Elon Musk on Friday declared that the terms “decolonization” and “from the river to the sea” are euphemisms that “necessarily imply genocide,” the use of which on the platform could “result in suspension.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/musk-from-the-river-to-the-sea-twitter-suspension-1234886216/

Both phrases are commonly used by activists calling for a Free Palestine, meaning an end to occupation and freedom of Palestinians between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. But they are interpreted by Israel supporters, Jewish advocacy groups and many others as antisemitic, eliminationist rhetoric describing the destruction of the Jewish state and its people. The militant group Hamas, which launched a deadly attack Israel on Oct. 7, years ago adopted “from the river to the sea” as a slogan of war, whereas Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American in U.S. Congress, was formally censured by the House this month in part for her embrace of the rallying cry, which she described as “an aspirational call for freedom, human rights and peaceful coexistence.”

32 Comments
2024/04/15
16:13 UTC

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In defense of French speaking

In defense of freedom of expression in France, which is currently under threat even on Reddit, a French-speaking community r/france_freespeech

2 Comments
2024/04/15
11:31 UTC

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How do YOU feel about the demise of Reddit?

Facts are facts, nobody can deny that Reddit has been in a clear in demise for over a decade. The difference between Gen Z liberals and myself is that I have enough evidence and understanding of this to show you WHY it has been like that. Let's just get our facts straight first, Reddit is not what it was in the pre 2010 era, which many Gen Z libs won't understand because they weren't even using the platform when it was healthy. Gen Z idiots call themselves liberals, but there is nothing liberal about them, they like the Reddit platform and shaped it to what it is Today, a platform that's restricting and censoring more content than every before, that's very "liberal" right...

Pre 2020 I used to browse Reddit and ask questions on the platform because it was a source of information and facts, now it became a source of emotional crap content and whining about conservative ideals. I used to get informed by fellow Reddit users, and now I seem to be getting "cultured" by gen Z morons who are dumber than any generation before them, did not receive proper education or even proper upbringing.

Every time such a moronic group of people who likes being dumb and believes all the lies fed to them by mainstream media is trying to proof me wrong by not providing any facts, I'm more than happy to take the criticism. It shows me that I'm still sane and on the right track. Reddit is literally swarmed by brainless morons who call themselves liberals, yet there is nothing liberal about them, but everyone wishes they will eventually be liberated from their brainwashed pathetic ideals.

Somehow, while everything in life is against them and against everything they stand for, they still believe they're on the right trajectory. When mainstream media is completely dying, countries are completely thrashed by dumb idiots, criminality is higher than ever before, suicide is higher than ever before, education is lower than ever before, somehow these new liberals claim to be on the right track, and all conservatives before them are the idiots being "cultured".

Meanwhile, we adults will stay on X and will continue to welcome any of you who like to be educated/schooled, but not many of you want that obviously, it's easier staying dumb than understanding you're wrong about almost everything in life...

I truly feel sorry for what happened to this platform, I've always considered Reddit to be an amazing platform full of information you couldn't find elsewhere, with the enormous opportunity one can expect from the (back then) biggest collective forum on our planet. Like all good we had in life, it's so easily squandered by those self-righteous idiots that have an increasingly loud voice shouting increasingly dumb nonesense. They will blame the downfall of this platform on the management, but like usual there is more to blame... Let's just say this platform got tailored to the wrong people. To those who don't like facts or sanity. To those who love censorship. To those who can't stand criticism. To those, so narcissistic that they truly believe to know everything, while knowing so very little.

I hope it can turn around, but if not, know that Elon Musk (hated among all Gen Z liberals on Reddit) will eventually build its forum that would rapidly drie out this platform and its community...

38 Comments
2024/04/15
09:22 UTC

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Absolutist waffling; Elon Musk's X has already backed off its new anti-trans hate policy

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-changes-anti-trans-harassment-policy

According to this updated policy, a post would receive reduced visibility if it misgendered a user or used their former name and the targeted user reported the post. However, over the past 24 hours, this new policy has already been changed. And the update completely alters how the policy is enforced.

11 Comments
2024/04/14
19:42 UTC

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Wow

Can you believe they banned me for this?

11 Comments
2024/04/13
22:53 UTC

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Alexander Dugin not available on Amazon

I just finished the The Great Awakening vs. The Great Reset, by Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin. Not available on Amazon, does anyone know the official explanation? (What else is not available on Amazon that would be worth reading?)

2 Comments
2024/04/13
22:38 UTC

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Why do leftists claim to align themselves with academia then say shit like “language evolves?”

If you question their misuse of a term they hit you with this, and it’s gotten old. To the point to where I question anything they say being in good faith.

They also say shit like “policing grammar is racist/classist” which is absolute nonsense. What is the point of written language if there are no rules and words don’t have meaning?

70 Comments
2024/04/13
18:15 UTC

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Elon Musk Loses Pathetic Defamation Case Against Hate Speech Watchdog

https://newrepublic.com/post/180101/judge-elon-musk-x-twitter-free-speech-case-center-countering-digital-hate

A judge has absolutely destroyed Elon Musk over his transparent attempt to suppress free speech.

^(The CCDH “has met its burden at the first step of the anti-SLAPP analysis,” Breyer wrote) ^(in his ruling. Strategic lawsuits against public participation, also known as strategic litigation against public participation, are lawsuits meant to censor, intimidate, or silence critics by saddling them with legal defense costs until they drop their criticism.)

^(“Sometimes it is unclear what is driving a litigation, and only by reading between the lines of a complaint can one attempt to surmise a plaintiff’s true purpose,”) ^(Breyer noted)^(. “Other times, a complaint is so unabashedly and vociferously about one thing that there can be no mistaking that purpose. This case represents the latter circumstance.) ^(T)**his case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech.

^(“The Court notes, too, that X Corp.’s motivation in bringing this case is evident.) X Corp. has brought this case in order to punish CCDH for CCDH publications that criticized X Corp.—and perhaps in order to dissuade others who might wish to engage in such criticism**^(.”)**

12 Comments
2024/04/13
17:17 UTC

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[anti-free speech opinion] A recognition that we are in Judaism 3.0 would turn the Israel-basher into a Jew-basher, and thus he would be deterred.

https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-796541

Solution to antisemitism: Show the world that Judaism has become Zionism

However, Judaism has a secret weapon for fending off this unprecedented ideological assault coming from the West: antisemitism itself.

Unlike in previous rounds, in our era’s assault it is taboo to say, “I hate Jews.” Therefore, one needs to direct opposition to Jews through the Jewish state (“I only hate the ‘bad Jews’”).

Once there is a global recognition that Judaism has transformed and Zionism is now its anchor (Judaism 3.0), that false facade gets shattered. A recognition that we are in Judaism 3.0 would turn the Israel-basher into a Jew-basher, and thus he would be deterred.

Mostly, it would dispel the prevailing ludicrousy in America of showing zero tolerance for traditional antisemitism (the existential threat to Judaism in the 20th century), while shining a big green light on Israel-bashing – the existential threat to Judaism in the 21st century).

2 Comments
2024/04/13
14:54 UTC

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To be super clear, I’m pro free speech, but against anti-Semitism of any kind

13 Comments
2024/04/13
10:50 UTC

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How Australians Lost Free Speech | Some more proof that Australians are mentally retarded

1 Comment
2024/04/13
10:45 UTC

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What are some conservative free speech avenues that balance out the liberal propaganda?

All sources of information that I look are biased. Nearly all sources claim that Biden won the 2020 election, climate change is real, etc. I'm tired of this liberal propaganda.

What are some good conservative sources that balance this out? I see conservapedia has some good entries. They have been proven right so many times - https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia_proven_right. Is that a good counterargument against the biased wikipedia?

19 Comments
2024/04/13
10:38 UTC

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Does anyone else think Trump is being unfairly targeted by the Biden Justice Department?

Since when is it not okay to speak up against judges and their families? Has Biden been prosecuted for threatening judges and their families?

Why aren't people who speak out against Aileen Cannon who is simply helping out Trump being prosecuted?

104 Comments
2024/04/13
10:29 UTC

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