#freedom of opinion

[philosophicalconservatism]

"There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, and resent it as an outrage to their feelings...But there is no parity between the feeling of a person for his own opinion, and the feeling of another who is offended at his holding it; no more than between the desire of a thief to take a purse, and the desire of the right owner to keep it. "

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English political philosopher.

[trexalicious]

Who will you fanblog about when every one of these sickly inbred thieves gets the guillotine?

Oh anon with your silly uneducated comment it's apparent you don't know English history. The only Royal who was ever guillotined was Charles I in 1649 (It was les grenouilles 🐸across the way who were the big fans of guillotining Royals). Today most would frown on such barbarism because of your circumstances of birth. You're a special kind of sicko though for suggesting guillotining a bunch of innocent children all under the age of 16. You also don't actually read my Tmblr or you'd know that I'm not really a big 'fan girl' of the Royal family per se. I'm more of an 'I hate liars and manipulators' Tumblr so I primarily focus on the two former senior royals. With their shenanigans and hypocrisy, I'll unfortunately have years of material! Sometimes I fan girl over Catherine when she rocks yet another iconic look but really who doesn't?! Thankfully she's a commoner so whew, she misses your Royal death wish! Thanks for the chuckle anon! Do come back soon for all of my awesome cat pictures! 😉

[4o4-tales]

When it comes to expressing yourself online: despite always wanting people to be able to honestly speak their mind and always wanting to be as welcoming as possible to people new to a community; eventually there is one lesson we learn over and over again. Never go 100% freedom of speech.

[endimpunityday]

Global Commemoration and Action -International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists 2024.

Morning Segment: Global Commemoration of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists 2024

9:00 am - 12:45 pm.

Location: Nelson Mandela Conference Hall.

African Union

[don-simon]

Our right to freedom of opinion has been undermined.

Under oppressive regimes, opinions are controlled by careful restriction of information, and the sources of information.

The modern online equivalent, even though we believe we live in a free society, is polluted by fake news and misinformation. It violates our freedom in a similar way. Our freedom to form reliable thoughts that are our own and not those of someone else.

It is a worryingly short distance from George Orwell's ''prolefeed" ("the rubbishy entertainment and spurious news which the Party handed out to the masses" - taken from his book 1984) to Facebook, Twitter/X and Instagram.

Freedom to Think by Susie Alegre (Atlantic, 2022)

[trexalicious]

Goya has a whole initiative they support combating child trafficking and slavery worldwide. Additionally, their CEO praised Donald Trump's comments about the liberal 'cancel culture' so the woke tried to come for them with a boycott. Sales rose 22% instead...

Support Goya; I do. A non-woke company.

[boo-bonita]

Can u see it?

[tmarshconnors]

[funkyyfungii]

Here's the thing. Y'all forget really easily that cencorship, once it has legal grounds, can be applied to any and every form of speech. You want to say smth like 'gay is okay' under a gov who doesn't agree? Well tough shit. Have fun being incarcerated.

I'd rather someone say a hateful thing directly to my face so I know to avoid them in the future, than have their speech be limited and later, after investing time and effort into a friendship, find out they're awful.

Kanye was openly a bigot and now his carreer is imploding, you don't need to limit free speech to achieve this result. Let people be bigots, let them expose themselves. Let them suffer the consequences accordingly.

[abstractfrog]

SILVER BLAZE PART THREE - happy jonkday everyone. one of these days i'll draw a scene that doesn't take place at night

[sapphirerose93]

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of consequences.

[endimpunityday]

Artistic Performance.

Artistic Performance to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists 2024.

9:00 - 9:10 am

[palatinewolfsblog]

"What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; It's not so much the opinion itself, but the boldness of wanting to think for yourself - an ability of which they themselves are not capable." Arthur Schopenhauer.

[g00pyjes]

psa let kids identify as ace if they want! as an asexual adult i can say it did me absolutely no help in being told i was too young to know. not only that, but kids changing their labels is so normal and an expected part of growing into your identity! let them experiment!

[hjellacott]

What if instead of hounding people for their opinions and ideas, thus attacking the fundamental right of freedom of speech, we develop a thicker skin?

And to you, that person so worried about someone's opinion because it apparently harms someone's life, threatens someone's existence, and so on, perhaps instead of attacking freedom of speech you should consider:

Getting someone banned means they'll seek an underground way of finding people with alike opinions, making them feel persecuted, become violent, and blow up in our faces all by surprise. Exhibit A: The Capitol far-right attack.

Learn politics and Greek speech and discourse techniques. Study the power of propaganda, political propaganda Nazi propaganda, philosophy, brainwashing, study the ideological progression of famous politicians depending on the trend of each time, learn about performative activism, and seek to read and understand opinions drastically different from your own.

Consider your elders are not automatically outdated and Conservative and stupid and perhaps bother to learn why they think like they do.

Ask yourself, who is really benefitting and making millions from making me their minions, threatening people online? Who really benefits from cancel culture and the end of freedom of speech and democracy? What positive impact has woke culture really caused?

Learn to accept criticism, criticise yourself and don't get so bloody defensive. Learn to reason, to question everything and to make your own informed opinions.

Once you've learned the important things, vote for the right people, stop buying from people you disagree with and don't like to give money to, and you know, stop doing performative activism and useless cancel culture and make a real difference in the world.

[beaft]

anyway i'm always fascinated by the people who think that trans men transition purely to escape misogyny and gain social capital. idk how it is for other people, but since i transitioned i have not only experienced more misogyny than i ever did before but also lost access to the public spaces and support systems that might have helped me deal with it