📚 Who are Moms for Liberty? Unveiling extremist ties behind book bans as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appoints co-founder to state's ethics commission

"One of the organisation's primary objectives is to prevent what they term "inclusive curriculum" from entering schools."

#books #bookstodon #bookbans #florida #FreeSpeech #Censorship #RonDeSantis #lgbt

https://howtobe247.com/who-are-moms-for-liberty-unveiling-extremist-ties-behind-book-bans/

📚 Texas fights to enact parts of controversial book rating law

"The law, signed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott on June 12th, mandates book vendors to review and rate books for sexual content under a vaguely articulated standard."

#books #bookstodon #bookbans #texas #FreeSpeech #Censorship

https://howtobe247.com/texas-fights-to-enact-parts-of-controversial-book-rating-law/

Alabama Attorney General dismisses #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment issues in his state’s abortion ban—as he makes a case for prosecuting conspiracies in so-called abortion trafficking cases. (Abortion trafficking is a made-up thing, by the way. Just sayin’)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/06/post-roe-america-alabama-murder/

It is the Republicans who are the driving force deploying #censorship to drown out the opposition, but our politics are diseased on both sides; #FreeSpeech isn’t enough. A roundup of different articles on our #FirstAmendment dilemmas—but the GOP definitely has more chutzpah. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/opinion/republicans-democrats-free-speech.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The right to peacefully assemble and #protest is sacrosanct, New York Attorney General says, explaining a legal settlement w/the NYPD to prevent them from “kettling” #protesters and then arresting them. #FreeSpeech #RightToAssemble #RightToProtest #FirstAmendment https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/nyregion/nypd-settlement-protesters-penning.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Instead of passing a red-flag law to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, or a law preventing civilians from carrying weapons of war, Tennessee legislators expelled weeping mothers, silenced a lawmaker, and prohibited spectators from carrying small signs. #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #TennesseeThree #JustinJones https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/opinion/tennesse-republicans-guns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@CharlesByrd +9001%

#FreeSpeech does not mean #ConsequenceFreeSpeech!

#Accountability and #Consequences are good, if not what keeps this world from falling into #chaos worse than #warlordism!

https://xkcd.com/1357/

Musk once again proving that he doesn't care about the truth. Doesn't see the line between defamation and free speech. Well he wants to ban the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) from X. So his way of protecting #FreeSpeech is by censoring an others? Proving its never freedom of speech with him, when its others doing the talking.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-ponders-twitter-poll-on-banning-adl-from-free-speech-site-after-bantheadl-trends

📚 Exclusive: Messy Roots author Laura Gao talks about potential book ban and growing anti-LGBTQ sentiment

"Given ​the ​state ​of ​the ​world ​today, ​and ​especially ​within ​the ​US, ​I ​kind ​of ​figured ​it ​would ​come ​sooner ​or ​later. ​But ​it ​was ​just ​really ​disheartening ​to ​hear ​about ​this."

#lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbtqbookstodon #books #bookstodon #freespeech #bookbanning #censorship

https://howtobe247.com/laura-gao-on-messy-roots-book-ban-and-anti-lgbtq-sentiment/

Watch: https://youtu.be/akhhmlBv2Hk

Rich bastards should be allowed to write books and make blog posts all day long, if they want. No matter how villainous the content. But they should NEVER have been permitted to own the very platforms on which modern communication happens.

Say your thing, who cares. But keep your god damn hands off the public microphone, buddy.

No idea how this would work since it tends to be rich assholes who pay to build the microphones, making them privately owned. #FreeSpeech

@SteveBologna I guess the #USA needs to learn that #FreeSpeech does not mean #ConsequenceFreeSpeech and actually put some #accountability for threats, not just against the POTUS into action!

Disney is not dropping its #FirstAmendment lawsuit against DeSantis and Florida, but it is amending it. #FreeSpeech #FreePress https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/business/disney-desantis-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

There are no winners in the game of #censorship, or how and why an Iowa #school district used AI to ban classics by Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, & others. #FirstAmendment #FreedomToRead #FreePress #FreeSpeech https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/opinion/book-ban-schools-iowa.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

〝Bowing to intimidation from politically authoritarian and religiously oppressive states sets a perilous precedent and gives oppressive regimes potential leverage to further undermine democratic principles. 〞
— Jacob Mchangama
#freeSpeech #Scandinavia #Denmark #Sweden #law #blasphemy
https://time.com/6302649/denmark-swedens-quran-burnings-commitment-to-free-speech/

Federal judge says Texas restrictions on drag shows violate the #FirstAmendment and delays implementation of the law. #FreeSpeech #FreePress https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/us/drag-show-ruling-texas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@maddiefuzz That's not the case - they ain't a Tier-1 and the Internet never was a dumb pipe.

If you believe that then you ignore the amount of filtering that is necessary for any ISP or IX not to get overwhelmed by #DDoS traffic and malicious actors.

#FreeSpeech does not mean #ConsequenceFreeSpeech...

There is no "Right to Peer" or "Right to Upstream" for very good reasons.

Also @eff choosing to defend #KiwiFarms instead of anything worth defending sends a clear message to everyone else!

This really illustrates the absolute absurdity of these "don't say gay" mentalities around children. It's very very stupid and pointelss. A Batman book talk had to be cancelled in a school district, because of the word "gay" being used once in reference to a character. This is #Censorship and restricting #FreeSpeech, not to mention incredibly homophobic. This crap stupidity needs to stop!

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/29/batman-book-talk-cancelled-gay/

Mention of a gay person in the history of Batman comic gets an elementary speaker cancelled as well as an apologetic note home to parents, because in Georgia …. #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #facts #reality https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/29/us/batman-book-nobleman-georgia-school-gay.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones silenced by Republicans again for #speaking off-topic. Or maybe they don’t like what he’s saying? Or that a Black man is saying it? #censorship #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/us/tennessee-justin-jones-gop.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Why #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech is NOT an issue in Jack Smith’s prosecution of Donald Trump. As in, the liar’s right to tell lying lies and lie lie lie IS NOT AN ISSUE. You’re welcome. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/opinion/trump-prosecution-free-speech.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare