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A place with free speech?
| Itt: muh freedom
Russia has basically become a dictatorship with Putin in charge but USA isn't censoring more than it already was, you could get arrested for making a edgy joke about shotting a school but that cause it's considering a threat, it's like if you were to go to the most poblater street of your city and made a edgy joke about killing someone.
Also believe it or not nobody like a racist so when they go the extra mile ban it's what happens
| If you're looking for a forum where racism is accepted and appreciated I think voat is like that, if I recall.
| >>398064 no im not from those people, it's just that i sometimes can do a bit edgy joke like everyone do but i see how people in russia get arrested even for this, so i was concerned about it.
>>398044 im glad that the us isnt censoring as russia, i thought it was the same there, but if it's only russia then we can close this thread, sorry for starting a shitty thread, mods can close it
| /tech/ is that really you?
| Why would you want free speach? I, for one, love my corporate overlords and hope one day to be impregnated with their spawn and serve as a primative nest for their hatchlings until they are old enough to devoury my flesh.
| I don't know in what Europe you live but in 90% of smaller countries you have no problems being offensive on the internet.
And in the rest of Europe only people with a big audience might get into problems. Like in Germany when you denie the Holocaust.
But there are still enough edgy German teenagers who do.
| Depends on your definition of free speech.
The American version just means you can't, or shouldn't, be arrested for things you say unless you have a credible threat or inciting violence, but these protections don't extend to online, and never have.
Like you can be banned or locked out online but at least you aren't arrested irl.
| >>399303 that's fine then in the us, because i read a lot about arrests in uk and russia for this, so i thought it's everywhere
| Haven't you figured it yet? Don't tell things that may become offensive without obscuring identity. Anonymity is the most obscuring. But you can't rely on forum admins to provide you with this anonymity as they have to obey the law. But if you use anonymous networks to post on forums, or even better, visit forums hosted anonymously within those networks, you gradually decrease chances of being incarcerated for thought crime. Lurk for forums hosted on i2p and Tor.
| There are kind souls out there who host onion proxies even for their non-hidden sites. Like 8chan, endchan or if you're Russian, lolifox.
| Excuse me but who the fuck in the whole american continent has been arrested for an edgy joke on fucking Facebook
| >>399954
Of course they are. That shit IS NOT protected by the 1st Amendment. People have this idea that "free speech" means you can say whatever you want with no consequences. That's patently not true.
I can't speak for the other 194 countries, but at least in the US, here's what the courts have to say about freedom of speech:
http://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/about-educational-outreach/activity-resources/what-does
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| Lately in europe, russia and usa dark humor and any offensive memes have been banned, if you post a joke on fb about any offensive theme you can get arrested. In russia lots of people are now getting arrested for racist jokes they posted in 2007. I see that mods from every major board are getting oppressed by their gvnt to respect the laws, but at the same time i see what is happening in /pol, so do someone know if free speech in boards will soon end or if for now we are safe?