@Alther @zalandocalrissian of course every right is limited as is the case of the 1st amendment in the US. The question that is at the basis of this quarrel is this: "should there be some body which tells everyone what is appriopriate, if yes, then how it is chosen or should anyone decide on an individual basis".
Unfortunately, the UK is a totalitarian state. Its transformation is complete. Tommy Robinson has been convicted of causing anxiety to convicted child rapists. I wish I were kidding.
@Alther @zalandocalrissian right for free speech is the most important of the personal rights. It is the only defence against tyranny of any kind.
Rumour is #TommyRobinson will be sentenced to 18 mths on Thursday for contempt of court - a non criminal offence
No one has faced this before
But no one had ever been starved for 10 wks in solitary before and all without the bother of a trial
They seek to silence but hope to kill
https://twitter.com/veryunfakenews/status/1148717691844386816?s=20
Geert Wilders
@geertwilderspvv
A prison sentence is a death sentence for #TommyRobinson.
He stood up for the victims of Islamic grooming gangs.
Why is no politician defending him?
I hope
@POTUS
grants this hero political asylum.
If I was Dutch PM I would help him immediately.
@zalandocalrissian @Alther they are not 'right-wing exstremists', they just don't buy into the 'diversity is our strength' and the 'multi-kulti' mantra. For them the right to free speech is above some one else's feelings and they vow to abide by the USA's 1st amendment to the constitution. You can say that they are 'allergic to the political correctness' 😜
I am really happy to see some new #gab friends on here. Please, enjoy your time at Mastodon.
@a Don't forget Tootle, a great open source option for Linux. WIth the Librem 5 coming, this will be the choice client for anyone moving to an open sourced phone!
https://puri.sm/products/
https://github.com/bleakgrey/tootle
‘Decentralized’ Social Network Mastodon Moves to Censor Free Speech Platform Gab
... although its technology is built around the principles of decentralization and federated content moderation, Mastodon’s leadership leans to the left.
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The left-wingers behind Mastodon and many of the smartphone-based platforms built with the project’s software have swiftly acted to contain Gab.
Because Mastodon is an open source software project, spread out among a myriad of independent servers, attempting to censor Gab across the Fediverse is much like attempting to censor Gab across the Internet — to remove Gab from the web, every nameserver and hosting provider would have to agree to shut them down (and many have).
To remove Gab from the Fediverse, every host of a Mastodon server would have to agree to ban Gab — as a result, panicked left-wing Mastodon users are flagging and reporting any Mastodon-based app that doesn’t agree to ban Gab. Merely by existing on the network, Gab has triggered a civil war within it.
Thanks to Gab, the people behind the Mastodon project are now at war with their own founding principles of decentralization. In abandoning their founding principles to pursue a strategy of censorship, they follow in the footsteps of the “Good Censors” at Google.
Just Remember Folks there's power in numbers were a 1 million strong, The #GAB #FAMILY and if were spread out throughout the federation and were
spreading the word about #GAB and #FREE #SPEECH its virtually impossible
To #Shut #Silence or #Censor 1 Million People think about that for a minute?
We know this already, and the people running #mastodon and the #admins know it
as well, They are fighting a loosing battle here. In the #END #GAB and #FREE #SPEECH
#LIBERTY Will Win.
I recommend if you want to try #mastodon
here is a good #instance that supports #freedom and #free #speech Join me @ https://social.librem.one/auth/sign_in and lets connect realnewz247@librem.one
God Bless You All and Keep spreading the Word of #FREE #SPEECH and #GAB
@trishchilders tried, but it doesn't help - maybe it is this site only, try to find something else