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Judy Evans @JudyEv (382115) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Jan

In South Australia, the Adelaide Festival starts in early February. The Adelaide Writers’ Festival (AWW) was to be held in conjunction with the main event. One of the presenters was to be Palestinian-Australian author, Randa...

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Responding To a Mylot Comment

celticeagle @celticeagle (189880) • Boise, Idaho 18 Sep 22

I had been commenting back and forth with a Mylot member and had a very strange response at one point. This person commented that transgenderism is a mental illness. I was shocked. I thought it over. How could a seemingly...

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The Price of Free Speech

PsalmOneCares @everwonderwhy (7355) 3 May 22

Elon Musk and his newfound power can now expose, and I hope help end, government and legacy media-directed censorship: ban-here-ban-there-and-everywhere-ban ban. If this is the case of, "free-speech absolutist" this rich Musk is...

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Nothing else to do. I gotta myLot!

PsalmOneCares @everwonderwhy (7355) 19 May 21

If I think free speech costs me nothing, I try listening to some of it. Listening to people here on myLot costs me a lot. My time, my energy, my self-control and my common-sense and sensibility. I always come away proud of...

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Offices of the Presidents

PsalmOneCares @everwonderwhy (7355) 31 Jan 21

ABC News: "Former presidents Barack Obama, George W Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter have all had offices or foundations set up since they left the top job." I read and heard from a conservative news outlet which you...

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Do you agree with the First Amendment to the US Constitution as regards free speech?

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 23 Oct 18

We don't have this rule in the United Kingdom, and for that I am profoundly grateful. The problem I have with the absolute right to say or write what you like is that it allows people to get away with being extremely unpleasant...

free speech

hate speech

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Is hate speech an abuse of the 1st amendment?

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 1 Feb 18

The photo is of Miriam Margolyes, a British actress whom many people will remember as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films. She recently made a short series of TV programmes about a road trip she made across the United...

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What is myLot for you in real?

Jainash @AshwiniJain (95) • Bangalore, India 1 May 17

I happened to stumble on this site accidentally while searching for something else. Initially I thought it would be cool to use this social media to earn a few easy bucks, but eventually myLot has turned out to be the best...

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does myLot delete posts?

John Morante @jomanimo (6) 7 Feb 17

I posted something about Free Speech on college campuses but it got deleted

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Did the police handle the latest Berkeley riot appropriately?

The Horse @TheHorse (238317) • Walnut Creek, California 3 Feb 17

The Editor of conservative website Breitbart News, Milo Yiannopoulosa, was scheduled to speak on the UC Berkeley campus Wednesday night. But protesters forced the University to cancel the speech by setting fires around the...

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anti-free speech riots at UC Berkeley.

Colin Clyde @cavalierscholar (205) 3 Feb 17

How strange it is that in a span of about half a century, Berkeley has gone from being a beacon of pro-free speech student activism to the situation now: journalist and conservative social critic Milo Yiannopolous chased off...

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I recommend you check out Jordan Peterson's youtube channel

Colin Clyde @cavalierscholar (205) 22 Jan 17

Clinical psychologist and university professor Jordan Peterson became internet famous overnight when he found himself embroiled in a political controversy over his opposition to Canadian legislative bill C-16, which is intended to...

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Champions of Free Speech: PC Backlash

PsalmOneCares @everwonderwhy (7355) 30 Aug 16

University of Chicago! Kudos to the champions of free speech! You're doing a great job toppling the strongholds of liberal suppression, rejecting the dumbing and shutting down critical thinking. We hope to see the rise of...

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Is Having to be Politically Correct- Anti-Free Speech? If so Does Trump Deserve a Pass?

CircusCircus @CircusCircus (17) • St. Louis, Missouri 23 Jul 16

Is being PC hurting Americans to the point where remaining silent is safer than speaking your mind? America is a country that features freedom of expression, but is political correctness stopping our right from being who we...

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Can Censorship Ever Be Justified in a Community?

Kyla Matton Osborne @Ruby3881 (1963) • Canada 20 Apr 16

Look at the words in the image above. They’re pretty negative, aren’t they? I’m sure most of us would agree that it’s not appropriate to apply these words to another human bring – words like “worthless,” “defective,” or...

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Robots Should Have the Right to Free Speech

cmoneyspinner @cmoneyspinner (9218) • Austin, Texas 5 Jan 16

The things intelligent people debate are way above my head. Not even sure Einstein or some other acclaimed genius would have thought of it. Law professors actually debated whether First Amendments Rights of robots [i]like...

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No freedom of Speech?

Red Curtis @redspot (64) • Citrus Heights, California 3 Nov 13

On Constitution Day (Sept. 17th), a student of Modesto Junior College, Robert Van Tuinen, was prevented by Modesto Junior College administration from handing out copies of the Constitution. The college apparently believes free...

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Employees - Are We Puppet or Robot?

Proud Dad of Twins :) @primeaque86 (8108) • Philippines 13 Sep 12

Don't you have the right to say something you think right? Don't you have the right to raise your opinion? Are you employed? Then you can relate here... We are not puppet, we are not robot! It's not colonialism...

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speak your side

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Free Speech

lynn2457 @lynn2457 (500) • United States 22 May 12

Alright, first we are told that Obama is born in Kenya and is still allowed to be president, he has stepped on our constitution and now is changing it. He has allowed secret services to come in and decided who is or is not using...

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Speaker Pelosi wants to change the first Amendment

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 20 Apr 12

It seems that some Democrats want to Amend the Constitution to give Congress the right to regulate Political Speech. They claim it is aimed at Corporations but don't say if Unions are included as they are in the Supreme Court...

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