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#freespeech

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All over the West, free speech is falling victim to pro-Israel supporters in government and institutions, and anything related to the Gaza genocide is being severely punished and suppressed with the blanket accusation of 'antisemitism'.

c: @5149jamesli on IG

#FreeSpeech#ICE#Israel
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Sankofab

Workers Strike Back is calling on all Tufts campus unions to join the student walkout Tue 4/1.

Students & workers need to shut down the campus as a decisive step towards building the fight against Trump’s attacks, abductions, deportations!

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#freespeech
#tufts #columbiauniversity #rumeysa #mahmoudkhalil
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran
#lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen #tiktok #cdnpoli @blackmastodon #politics #canada #usa #socialist

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(Aimed at @j12t, not @ariasalvatrice) So she has opinions. So what?
They are reasonable and much more politely expressed than some I have seen on this topic.

This is why the woke left is losing and I am here for it. The only shame is that the far-right is gaining ground instead of the rational left.
cc: @taylan @quasi
#FreeSpeech

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Edward Champion

Please watch Jonathan Randall's video. I've reached out to Randall and he has confirmed that this is REAL. Not staged. Randall was booked to perform a set on the 28th, only to be told AN HOUR BEFORE his show that he was canceled because he supported Palestine. And on top of that, one of the bouncers for the Fear City Comedy Club assaulted him in the street. In NYC.

This is nothing less than SA/brownshirt tactics.

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InstagramJonathan Randall on Instagram: "My show tonight thefearcitycomedyclub was canceled. I had been promoting it hard all week but an hour before the owner texted me “Just jokes tonight man. No political grandstanding or activism talk please”. I take free speech seriously and some of the best comics of all time from Carlin to Chappelle have advocated through comedy. I’m sorry to everyone who bought tickets many of whom were coming to support my comedy because of my activism. I will continue to use my voice to make people laugh and fight for freedom and equality for all. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ #freespeech #comedy #comedian #standupcomedy #thefearcitycomedyclub #freepalesti̇ne"jonathanrandall on March 28, 2025: "My show tonight thefearcitycomedyclub was canceled. I had been promoting it hard all week but an hour before the owner texted me “Just jokes tonight man. No political grandstanding or activism talk please”. I take free speech seriously and some of the best comics of all time from Carlin to Chappelle have advocated through comedy. I’m sorry to everyone who bought tickets many of whom were coming to support my comedy because of my activism. I will continue to use my voice to make people laugh and fight for freedom and equality for all. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ #freespeech #comedy #comedian #standupcomedy #thefearcitycomedyclub #freepalesti̇ne".
#comedy#Jonathanrandall#Palestine
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U.S. immigration is asking the public for feedback on a new proposal to collect social media handles from people applying for green cards and citizenship.

Free speech advocates are concerned over how expanded social media surveillance could impact asylum seekers, green card and citizenship applicants already living in the U.S. legally.

@AssociatedPress explains what the proposal means and how it might change online surveillance.

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Venezuelan migrant Yender Romero shows the U.S. Customs and Border Protection One app on his cell phone, at a migrant tent camp in Mexico City, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
AP News · US immigration officials look to expand social media data collectionBy Barbara Ortutay
#SocialMedia#OnlineSurveillance#OnlinePrivacy
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Madeleine Morris

I have lived in countries with hate-speech laws. I have lived in countries with highly restrictive political speech laws.

It’s not unbearable. You are clear on what you cannot say. You learn the art of metaphor.

What’s unbearable is when you get TOLD you have the right to free speech and then the administration prosecutes or punishes you for exercising it, for no coherent reason.

That’s the terror that comes from the arbitrary application of power. #FreeSpeech #fascism #authoritarianism

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Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚

“… The last paper standing was a gossip rag turned last one to speak truth to power( not unlike @TeenVogue and @RollingStone ) ..."

#MustRead about #FreeSpeech from a #HongKong citizen 👇🏽

From: @chu
climatejustice.social/@chu/114

Climate Justice SocialChu 朱 (@chu@climatejustice.social)The US is about to (actually already going) through censorship that those of us with ties to China know all too well. Though I don't have direct experience, I can tell you a little bit from my perspective as a member of the Hong Kong diaspora. I don't know how much this will help, but take it as you will. Growing up in Canada, we would be "reminded" once in a while about things we can and can't say. It's not that there was real fear (since we were here), but more like habit, especially from the newly immigrated relatives from the mainland. We would say something like "Tiananmen Square was so awful" and then get a "shhhh" from a relative. As the internet was becoming a thing, it started off cool, but then pretty soon, entire websites were out of bounds. Friends and relatives visiting the mainland couldn't send updates to sites like FB while they were away. (Though FB is effectively US gov controlled so this specifically won't be a problem... but the point is that sites outside of their control will be). As domestic social media started being a thing, terms would often be censored depending on the moment. For a while, the word "emperor" was censored b/c people started calling Xi an emperor. Sensitive information is always controlled. People are always on eggshells. I was chatting with a friend and said Xi's name. She immediately said "shhh" reached for her phone, shut it off, and threw it in the bottom of the bag where the mic would be muffled. Then said "warn me before you say his name so I can turn off everything". Whether or not they were actually listening, the fear is constant. As Hong Kong protests reached its peak, the government moved in to quash all the news. The last paper standing was a gossip rag turned last one to speak truth to power (not unlike Teen Vogue and Rolling Stone). I still haven't figured out this phenomenon of celebrity gossip being the hope of free speech, but here you have it. Maybe b/c the gov doesn't go after them first? The netizens come up with words and euphemisms that need constant changing to evade detection. This is at a level I haven't grasped yet. But I know it exists and a thing I believe USians will need to learn and get used to. Free speech was one the things those of us in the diaspora were very proud of. We can say what we wanted without fear. That is getting taken away (already gone in the US). It is the single greatest loss in a civilization. Those of us in other Western democratic countries need to take note and not let this disease spread. We will regret it greatly when it does.
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