It's #FreeSpeechWeek - but is there reason to celebrate? With freedom of speech under fire from increasing surveillance around the globe our basic human rights - the right to privacy and the right to freedom of expression - are trampled upon in too many ways.

The promise of the free and open internet has failed and in its place a system of chilling effects has been instituted.

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#FreeSpeech #FreeSpeechMatters #freedomofspeech

Free Speech is Under Fire With the Rise in Global Surveillance

It's Free Speech Week but the lookout for freedom of speech on a global level couldn't be much worse.

^Tutanota

We are now challenging this order to ban #element and #briar at High Court of the southern state of #Kerala

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#India #FreeSpeech

Free Speech, Elon Musk Edition

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(Sorry for the repost and the link to hellsite but Nitter wasn’t displaying the video properly.)

#aoc #elonMusk #freeSpeech #billionaires

"A decentralized, interoperable Internet is an explicit tradeoff: you lose the power that comes from convincing the platforms to eliminate the speech that disturbs or upsets you, but you gain the power to move to an online community where speech policies are to your liking...and you still get to talk to people who want different speech policies."

- #CoryDoctorow, 2021

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#FreeSpeech #decentralization #moderation

Twitter and Interoperability: Some Thoughts From the Peanut Gallery

Late in 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey floated "Project Blue Sky," a plan for an interoperable, federated, standardized Twitter that would let users (or toolsmiths who work on behalf of users) gain more control over their participation in the Twitter …

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}