Today in Labor History August 4, 1792: Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born. He promoted freedom of speech, ending aristocratic and clerical privilege, and equal distribution of income and wealth. He was also a vegetarian, advocate for free love and an atheist, who wrote about the link between organized religion and social repression. His poems and political writings were admired by Marx, Gandhi and others. His poem The Mask of Anarchy (1819) was the first modern work to support nonviolent protest. It was recited by students at the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and by protesters in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian revolution of 2011. Shelley wrote The Mask of Anarchy following the Peterloo Massacre (8/16/1819), when the British cavalry charged into a crowd of around 60,000 people who had gathered to demand political representation, killing 13. He was married to, Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein.

The Mask of Anarchy:

Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you:
Ye are many—they are few!

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #FreeSpeach #poetry #poet #marx #FreeLove #frankenstein #PercyByssheShelley #protest #demonstration #Revolution #nonviolence

#Truth #government #FreeSpeach

Apparently you can now be arrested for peaceful protest. Read until the last tweet, it will shock you, I think. It did me anyway.
Oh, if you don’t click on the threads you can read this on threadreaderapp.com and never have to see Twitter. #firstamendment #freespeach #rightwingextremism
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1653020580818440196.html?utm_source=subscriptions_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=real_time

Usually not linking to the bird site, but this is worth it. If you have an account there try liking or retweeting and see what happens. https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/1644414461216792583 #ElonMusk #censorship #FreeSpeach #Twitter #BirdSite

#paradox #tolerance #freespeach #Inclusivity #politicallycorrect

#GreatQuestion #FreeSpeach

"... If it's the case, that my freedom to swing my fist ends on your nose, [...] why doesn't my freedom to swing my language ends at your ears? ..."

> Alex 'the Cosmic Sceptic' O'Connor <

YouTube reinstating Trump's channel is a horrible idea.
Report his channel here:
https://m.youtube.com/@DonaldJTrumpforPresident/about?openChannelReportingDialog=1&app=m&persist_app=1#menu

Share the link. Tell your friends

#youtube #trump #politics
And remember #freespeach is not protected on YouTube or Facebook so stfu about censorship. Asshat wants to spew lies he can start a TrumpTube

@BBCBreaking time to switch off BBC. Their latest action shows how they are totally controlled by their ERG ultra rightwing masters. Far from independent the BBC won’t allow free speech that criticises or goes against their right wing masters views. #freespeach #bbc #Lineker #politics #ukpol

Book Burning De Santis !

Anti Free Speach De Santis !

This is WHEN one can state that a guy is DANGEROUS !!!

https://truthout.org/articles/social-media-users-could-be-sued-for-defamation-under-floridas-anti-press-bill/

#DeSantis #FreeSpeach #Danger #AntiDemocratic #Florida #Republicans

@ronanmcd Or, #free to #hate in your heart, that's your prob. But when your hate becomes a violation of inalienable #humanrights then then that is a #crime, the violation is clear. Black people aren't allowed to say we matter, but white people can say whatever and it's called #FreeSpeach even when it gets us eradicated. It's insane. The truth has always been known and understood it's simply ignored. Particularly by those in #power. That's why #WhiteSupremacy is #evil.

@DamienMarieAtHope Reality , we are all given free reign to be unequal. The haves keep everything that way until someone takes it from them. Once they do the haves’ vested interests claim victim status. “Where did my steady investment based on exploitation go?” Liberty and Justice requires everyone who doesn’t have it, to reach and achieve it. #GeorgeOrwell #freespeach #cuba #Dickens

@kojote gesperrt ist aber ein böses Wort für free speach! 😂 #freespeach

Elon Musk ordered to suspend a left-wing activist's account

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2905138066378/a-leaked-internal-message-appears-to-show-elon-musk-ordered-twitter-staff-to-suspend-a-left-wing-activist-s-account

#musk #twittertakover #twitter #freespeach

I just read this (a bit older) post of #signal founder #moxiemarlinspike and just celebrate his subtle irony in it...

https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

🖕Cellbrite, NSO group and all the rest of the "security industry" helping criminal gouvernments all over the world spying on citizens, activists and dissidents. Another cancer to modern society has grown in those (next to the military industrial complex).

Ah by the way: #FreeJulianAssangeNOW

#cellbrite #nsogroup #pegasus #digitalsecurity #digitalcitizen #spyware #freespeach #democracy #privacy #datasecurity

More censorship. The world is full of fucking tyranny #FreeSpeach #India #Documentary #BBC #NarendraModi https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-blocks-bbc-documentary-pm-modi-airing-india-2023-01-22/

'Don't Be Afraid' won🏆, the 3rd Sun of the East Award from the Tagore International Film Festival 🎬for the 📢Free Speach category.
Way to go team‼️
#filmfreeway #supportindiefilm #bencable #TIFF #shortfilm #FilmFestival #awardwinning #freespeach

If you've ever argued with anyone acting like a jerk on the internet, that argument probably devolved into an argument over free speech. But, what is free speech really, and how does it apply to the internet and public discourse in general.

Wisecrack explains.

#FreeSpeach #Wisecrack #Politics #Internet #Twitter #Facebook #Youtube

https://youtu.be/8iH-mpT80sU

Must say - been on Mastodon for a couple of months, and the quality of thought and charity of interpretation one gets here is amazing. It has proven to me how much the format of this kind of site matters, but also how Much the people and their attitudes

At this rate I will manage to revive my faith in the cut and thrust of debate

#Mastodon #FreeSpeach #Debate

der #BirdIsFreed zeigt sich zugeknöpfte beim Thema #freespeach. Ohne Hass und Hetze scheint es nicht mehr zu gehen. Interessant wäre, was eigentlich #Wissing und #musk wirklich besprochen? @n3ll4 scheint jemanden zu nahe gekommen zu sein. Mach weiter so! #freenella

Die Untersuchungen der von #musk veröffentlichten Unterlagen ergaben, dass
Deamplification-Algorithmen weltweit von Twitter eingesetzt werden.

Zusammenarbeit mit FBI. Es werden zudem Daten von Nutzenden weitergegeben.

Es sollten strafrechtliche Untersuchungen eingeleitet werden!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/the-twitter-files-should-disturb-liberal-critics-of-elon-musk-and-heres-why​

#freespeach #twitter #wahlmanipulation #Demokratie #Deamplification