Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/01/federal-judge-finds-city-of-corvallis-retaliated-against-city-councilor-for-exercising-free-speech.html Court rules city of #Corvallis violated #FirstAmendment by moving to expel city councilor from council over climate speech. #FreeSpeech #Oregon

If there is anything you'd like to discuss further in regards to this, feel free to contact me, but please no puritanical hypotheticals / low quality points, or bad faith.

https://qoto.org/@olives/113361636922921463 On request, here's the piece again which goes over things like porn, science, tech, human rights. It criticizes censorship, prohibition, puritanism.

It's been a while since I last updated this, so maybe I'll expand on it further sometime. #FreeSpeech

Sometimes, I run into 500s, so I might accidentally make a duplicate post when that happens.

Hearing of how AfD wants to censor speech which offends them. #FreeSpeech

AfD probably defends their own speech but that is not the same thing as defending free speech.

Apparently, AfD hates freedom of speech.

I'm seeing someone condemning "German politicians" for using very authoritarian and unreasonable rhetoric as if this is just something German politicians generally do.

I check and they are talking about AfD.

I see someone (I'm not linking to it here) criticizing Facebook for not going far enough.

They use words like free speech but they only mention wanting them to allow more hate speech (rather than other forms of expression which Facebook has been criticized for censoring).

I'm hearing that New York has passed another hate speech policy law, despite trying to pass one not that long ago and having it be struck down as unconstitutional.

In this case, the #EFF echoed someone talking about "safety", but in a social context where that often means puritanism. #FreeSpeech

#EFF accidentally promotes puritanism. This "we care about hate" is getting out of hand. #FreeSpeech

A good question to ask might be "Which statute?"

Germany isn't a country I typically deal with.

Classification initiatives should just be an advisory label which is put on a product (and I suppose someone could decline selling some products to minors). It shouldn't be something which removes products from storefronts.