“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” ― George Orwell, 1984

It's becoming increasingly common for people and corporations to say they support freedom of speech despite their version of it barely resembling the first amendment. Beware of faux free speech claims.

And the gold medal for mental gymnastics goes to...

"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth." - Orwell, 1984

Countries without freedom of speech are insecure.

Secrecy divides the world. Censorship divides the world. Transparency unites the world.

Welcome to the fight against AB 587 and thanks to @Timcast @TheBabylonBee @jlawrencenc and @GlobalAffairs . Speech is not the problem. Speech prevents problems. Without it we have nothing.

It's not a content moderation law; it's a censorship law. It's true intent, according to X, is “to pressure social media platforms to ‘eliminate’ certain constitutionally protected content viewed by the state as problematic." We sued to try and prevent this law's enforcement…

Open source, decentralized social media protocols will inevitably interoperate with most apps and websites on the planet. Even big tech is being pressured to adopt it. What is your decentralized social media strategy?

Most people think they want freedom for themselves, but do they want freedom for their ideological opponents? If the answer is no then they don't want freedom at all. They want power.

The illusion of freedom is typically more popular than actual freedom.

Bullying bullies doesn't stop bullying.

Who do you disagree with the most but respect the most?

Those trying to withhold information from the public through over-classification and censorship are not protecting you.

Speech is not unsafe. Speech is the sole tool humanity has to resist violence.

Censorship is vastly more dangerous than misinformation. This is a historical fact.

The freest possible society allows maximum access to information and maximum ability to communicate it.

You can have maximum free speech and maximum control of the content you see at the same time. It's not one or the other.

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” - Elie Wiesel

Censorship is inhumane. If conversation is impossible, violence is inevitable.

A society without freedom of information lives in a false reality. Transparency benefits everyone except those who have something to hide.

Open source X.

Whether or not the public can handle the truth is irrelevant to whether or not they should be given the truth.

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Even the ADL knows that deplatforming can increase radicalization, yet they still support it.

Deplatforming causes social division. That's what it is specifically designed to do.

Censorship of lawful speech is not and never will be the moral highground.

Tonight at 5pm EST I’ll be having a conversation with Bill Ottman from @minds about: ⁃ Why mainstream media is failing ⁃ Freedom of speech ⁃ The regulation of information ⁃ The future of decentralized social media 📺 👉https://t.co/sXLmQHLAHg

"A missed opportunity for dialogue is a missed opportunity for conflict resolution. And that's how we change minds". @RealDarylDavis on why attacking people's ideas is counterproductive and why we need more civil discourse.

Admitting being wrong generates respect. Refusing to own mistakes destroys it. Bad faith dialogue is a social cancer.

Censorship is rocket fuel for conspiracy theories.