This week in #FreeExpression:

🔹 #Mexico: two journalists shot in 48 hours.

🔹 #Uganda: court strikes down Computer Misuse Act provisions.

🔹 #Global: new report tracks threats to cartoonists worldwide.

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This week in #FreeExpression:

🔹 #Belarus: 250 political prisoners freed, including journalists.

🔹 #Lebanon: digital war drives surveillance and information operations.

🔹 #India: data protection law challenged.

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Free Expression Session

Today’s Random Vid

#trv
#freeexpression
#percussion
#notmycat

Senate approves state model for campus free-speech policies after heated exchange SB 17 41 requires public colleges and universities to adopt 'freedom of expression' and neutrality policies; sponsors said it protects student speech, critics said it constrains campus responses to safety and civil-rights issues. The bill passed (Ayes 26, Nays 6).

Tennessee's Senate just passed a controversial bill aimed at reshaping free speech on campuses, igniting fierce debate over safety and diversity of viewpoints.

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#TN #ViewpointDiversity #CitizenPortal #TennesseeColleges #CampusSafety #FreeExpression

Free Expression

Today’s Random Vid

#trv
#freeexpression
#percussion

Campaign Organizer – Digital Rights & Online Privacy - Internship We are seeking a part-time early-career digital rights advocate, policy student, or campaign organizer to help build a public interest campaign addressing a new wave of state-level online age-verifica

If you’ve led grassroots campaigns against surveillance or censorship, COSL wants you. Join us as Campaign Organizer (Digital Rights & Online Privacy) and coordinate global partners fighting for safer, freer digital spaces. Apply here: https://ideali.st/AsH7SS #FreeExpression #Activism #intern

This week in #FreeExpression:

🔹 #Afghanistan: radio shut down over women’s education programming

🔹 #Canada: Rachel Gilmore targeted with threats and deepfakes

🔹 #Palestine: EU-funded #AI fuels surveillance and repression

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Campaign Organizer – Digital Rights & Online Privacy - Internship We are seeking a part-time early-career digital rights advocate, policy student, or campaign organizer to help build a public interest campaign addressing a new wave of state-level online age-verifica

If you’ve led grassroots campaigns against surveillance or censorship, COSL wants you. Join us as Campaign Organizer (Digital Rights & Online Privacy) and coordinate global partners fighting for safer, freer digital spaces. Apply here: https://ideali.st/AsH7SS #FreeExpression #Activism #intern

Help bring Bread and Roses TV back on air. Since 18 March, we’ve raised £2,282, nearly a quarter of our goal. Help us reach £10000 by 30 April
👉 Donate here: tinyurl.com/BreadAndRose...
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#WomanLifeFreedom #IndependentMedia #FreeExpression

This week in #FreeExpression:

🔹 #Global: women journalists increasingly jailed worldwide

🔹 #Bahrain: missile strikes put political prisoners at grave risk

🔹 #Africa: how foreign digital influence drives #disinformation

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Campaign Organizer – Digital Rights & Online Privacy - Internship We are seeking a part-time early-career digital rights advocate, policy student, or campaign organizer to help build a public interest campaign addressing a new wave of state-level online age-verifica

If you’ve led grassroots campaigns against surveillance or censorship, COSL wants you. Join us as Campaign Organizer (Digital Rights & Online Privacy) and coordinate global partners fighting for safer, freer digital spaces. Apply here: https://ideali.st/AsH7SS #FreeExpression #Activism #intern

Campaign Organizer – Digital Rights & Online Privacy - Internship We are seeking a part-time early-career digital rights advocate, policy student, or campaign organizer to help build a public interest campaign addressing a new wave of state-level online age-verifica

If you’ve led grassroots campaigns against surveillance or censorship, COSL wants you. Join us as Campaign Organizer (Digital Rights & Online Privacy) and coordinate global partners fighting for safer, freer digital spaces. Apply here: https://ideali.st/AsH7SS #FreeExpression #Activism #intern

🎵 And the blocks keep coming and they don't stop coming.🎵

#proshipping, #profiction, #PositiveMentalHealth, #TransRights, #Kink & #FreeExpression

Huh, more blocks. I guess standing up for #proshipping, #profiction, #PositiveMentalHealth, #TransRights, #Kink & #FreeExpression as well as cool folks like @nerdskull.bsky.social repels puritanically minded #queers & conservative alt accounts who can't stand to see people unrepressed.

Fuck em.

Original post on social.openrightsgroup.org

“And it should go much further than the old Magna Carta, to enshrine the rights we have asserted over generations since. A free press. Genuinely free. Freedom of expression. And yes, that means on social media too” - Davey calls for a new written constitution to defend our freedoms and rights in […]

This week in #FreeExpression:

🔹 #Bahrain: dozens arrested over protests and #Iran-related posts

🔹 #Guinea: official media list planned for election coverage

🔹 #MENA: women human rights defenders face heavy psychological toll

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Since I'm #trapped in the #MonetarySystem, I need to #MakeMoney from my #art. But if I were living in a #ResourceBasedEconomy, I would be producing #FreeArt for everybody forever.

#artist #artwork #creative #freeexpression

This week in #FreeExpression:

🔹 #Brazil: women environmental journalists in the Amazon face threats

🔹 #Iraq: killing of feminist leader Yanar Mohammed condemned

🔹 #Pakistan: media attacked covering protests at US missions

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This week in #FreeExpression news:

🔹 #Ecuador: death threats against journalists surge

🔹 #Nepal: election body seeks removal of BBC documentary

🔹 #Palestine: Israel bands several Jerusalem-based media platforms

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The UK Government shouldn't make LGBTQ+ hate crime more severe.
There's worse crimes that deserve that treatment.
Okay, attacking someone for being gay is not great, don't get me wrong.
#LGBTQPlus #LGBTQ #UK #hatecrime #freespeech #freeexpression

This week in #FreeExpression:

🔹 #Iran: conflict escalation fuels repression regionwide

🔹 Disinformation attacks target UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese

🔹 #Belarus: journalists given long prison terms on treason charges

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"When speech is indiscriminately censored and access is curtailed, online spaces for discussion, creativity, support, and protest either disappear or are drained of their diversity and vitality." https://c4osl.org/february-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #AnnualReport #Censorship #FreeExpression

"When speech is indiscriminately censored and access is curtailed, online spaces for discussion, creativity, support, and protest either disappear or are drained of their diversity and vitality." https://c4osl.org/february-2026-newsletter #Newsletter #AnnualReport #Censorship #FreeExpression

Original post on social.openrightsgroup.org

Lords in the U.K. push to ban all ‘step sis’ ‘step mom’ porn. Well not quite ‘all’ as they rely on Sec 27 of sexual offences act 2003 so Police will have to somehow work out if it’s a fictional representation of a legal or illegal sexual step relationship […]

This week in #FreeExpression updates:

🔹 #Turkey: DW reporter detained for "insulting the president"

🔹 #India: criticism of generative #AI copyright proposal

🔹 #WestAfrica: push to make #BigTech compensate news media

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A proposed federal bill could reshape how books are approved or removed from schools nationwide. 📚
Authors, educators, librarians, & readers debating what this could mean for access to stories.
www.theromancestudio.com/new-federal-...
#BookCommunity #FreeExpression #Libraries #Publishing

This week in #FreeExpression news:

🔹 #Palestine: journalists recount torture in Israeli detention
🔹 #Syria: civil society urges renewal of the @UN inquiry
🔹 #Slovakia: new retrial begins in Jan Kuciak murder case

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Administrative Erasure

No law banned the speech.

Access was conditioned.

When credentials become discretionary, exclusion becomes procedural.

Corridor Deconstruction.

#DarkCorridors
#AdministrativeErasure
#PolicyAnalysis
#FreeExpression

This week is #FairUseWeek, a reminder that fair use is a cornerstone of U.S. #copyright law. This doctrine lets the law adapt to new technologies, like #AI, enabling uses like mass digitization for non-consumptive purposes while safeguarding #FreeExpression and #Innovation. 1/3

Don’t Delete Art Editor-at-Large Emma Shapiro sits down with renowned artist Alphachanneling for a powerful conversation about censorship, suppression, and survival in today’s algorithm-driven digital landscape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjwy-9vu2dE #Art #Censorship #FreeExpression

This week in #FreeExpression updates:

🔹 #Cambodia: journalist Hem Vanna detained after reporting

🔹 #Egypt: summonses and excessive bail used to intimidate dissent

🔹 #BurkinaFaso: artist detained without explanation

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