#freedom of expression

[rum-inspector]

So tumblr has now rolled lives for my account too and reading their rules..

MIDDLE FINGER IS BANNED I REPEAT DO NOT FLIP THE BIRD on live IT IS VERY VERY BAD IT IS LITERALLY SAME AS IF YOU GOT FULLY NAKED AND WOOP WOOP HANKY PANKY BOJOINK WITH AN EQUALLY NUDE PARTNER ON THE STREAM I REPEAT HIDE YOUR MIDDLE FINGERS PUT THEM AWAY PUT THEN AWAY NOW A CHILD COULD SEE AN OBSCENE FINGER ON TUNGLR DOT COM

I realized from lot of tags and comments lot of you are unaware that the underlying issue is BIGGER than just tumblr. I even skipped the part about dress code bc its the same on every app now, nothing special unfortunately, the middle FINGER was news. you just never read the ToS and the reason is US LAWS, Credit card company monopoly, advertisers wanting everything to be "family friendly" etc and things are only going to get worse if you don't start opposing and repeling the torjan horse laws. Here, let's have someone who knows better explain it:

[craycraybluejay]

I also heavily resent the ever-present implication in mainstream media that at all touches on trauma that we cannot have any sympathy for Bad Victims. That it's evil to write a sympathetic Bad Victim. Hell, that it's bad to portray one at all at times. Writing a victim of trauma who's an addict or self-destructive is already an edge case-- writing trauma survivors who end up actually hurting someone else, being chronically "treatment"-resistant or having inconvenient ptsd, perpetuate the cycle, or are just kind of a total dick is considered an evil move. Instead of like. An actually complex and interesting artistic choice.

Idk. It pisses me off a lot how often Bad Victims[TM] are brushed under the rug and if you dare to speak of them/make art of them, let alone SYMPATHIZE with them you're an irredeemable monster. And that's just fictional characters. Don't even get me started on the way people treat actual people who have ptsd in a way that's at all inconvenient and problematic in their opinion.

[txtstotheworld]

any news on KOSA?

UPDATE KOSA 4/10/24

KOSA has unfortunately been introduced to the house of representatives. However, we have not heard if it has passed senate yet.

Please keep fighting. If KOSA becomes law, I will not be able to run this account anymore.

[ichverdurstehier]

I'm very pro-fanfiction but for the love of Jjong please tag your fics properly. If there's incest, tag it for incest. If there's an age gap, tag it for age gap. If there's grooming, tag it for grooming. If there's a character with a vagina involved in the ship, DON'T tag it m/m. Vaginas are female organs.

TAG YOUR FICS!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!

[useless-catalanfacts]

The rap singer Valtònyc (wearing dark green in the first photo) has returned from exile. It's the first time he steps in his homeland Mallorca in almost 6 years.

He was sentenced to 3.5 years of prison because when he was 18 years old he wrote a song where he criticized the Spanish monarchy and uploaded it to YouTube. He wasn't famous and his most listened song on YouTube had 8,000 views, but in Spain it's a crime to say "injuries against the crown", and the laws are often applied more harshly against national minorities (Valtònyc is from the Catalan Countries). His song was found and he had to go to trial over it, and was sentenced guilty of the crimes of injuries against the monarchy, praising terrorism, and threats.

Valtònyc refused to accept the so-called "justice" of the Spanish judicial system, so he decided to escape. He managed to sneak to France unnoticed by the police, and went to Belgium, where there was already a community of Catalan people on exile for their political involvement in the Catalan independence process. He has lived on exile in Belgium these last 5 years and a half.

Had he come back to any Spanish territory, Valtònyc (same as the other exiles) would have immediately been jailed. In fact, Spain issued an international order of extradition, demanding Belgium arrest him and send him to Spain to be imprisoned. But the Belgian courts found that these kind of cases should be allowed under freedom of speech and, instead of sending Valtònyc to Spain, Belgium got rid of their own law that punished "injuries against the crown" as a crime. With no Belgian law to punish him, he was allowed to stay in Belgium. This is a similar process that had happened with other Catalan exiles, who Spain has demanded be extradited multiple times but Belgian law has protected for human rights and freedom of speech reasons.

By the way, the song that got him sentenced to prison had been a commission from the Spanish politician Pablo Iglesias (leader of Podemos, the left Spanish party) for his TV show La Tuerka. Valtònyc has explained that Iglesias never called him, never showed any solidarity nor interest in his case. Iglesias was vice-president of Spain during Valtònyc's exile.

The crimes expired six months ago, meaning he can no longer be imprisoned for it. However, the Spanish courts did not notify him of it (as they should have done), so his lawyer and him just found out.

After saying goodbye to other Catalan people on exile in Belgium, who are not allowed to come back yet (in the photos, shared by Valtònyc on his Twitter, he is saying goodbye to the politicians Lluís Puig and Carles Puigdemont), he has come back home.

He was welcomed by 200 people in his hometown. He has thanked all the people who helped him and showed solidarity. He also reminded that Pablo Hasél (a rap singer from Catalonia) is still in prison for the lyrics of his songs and the contents of his Tweets, sentenced guilty of injuries against the crown and praising terrorism. You can read more about Pablo Hasél's arrest in this post, and an explanation of the tweets and lyrics that got him sentenced in this post.

As we celebrate Valtònyc's return, we cannot forget that Spain has repeatedly ranked number 1 in the whole world for country that sent the most musicians to jail for the content of their music, in 2018 and 2020. By the way all the 14 rap singers condemned to prison for their lyrics were Catalan (Pablo Hasél and the 12 members of the band La Insurgencia from Catalonia, and Valtònyc from the Balearic islands), not one of any other culture group or from any other area. Curious, 100% of the sentenced, when the population of the Catalan Countries is less than 29% of the population of Spain. Wonder why!

[danneroni]

⭐🌈 BE YOURSELF! 🌈⭐

Shimmer prints are back!

[queerism1969]

[shsl-fujoshi]

Well, I just got confirmation that just like last time this "isn't a situation that can be addressed through reddit."

Which means this wasn't just a mass spam report scenario.

Someone at tumblr has actually decided my @blackheartbiohazards account should be fucking banned, and they won't respond to me via support tickets.

Tumblr is not a safe place for free discussion.

There was nothing remotely TOS violating on my account.

This is due to my being outspoken about freedom of speech.

[inabigworld]

all of your feelings. all of your pain. all of your love. all of your rage. all of your hatred. everything that feels good, everything that doesn’t feel good at all. all of your insides. get it out. spill your guts, pour your heart out, and let it bleed out of your wounds. word vomit all over that blank canvas, baby. make it your own.

[yourdirtyracoon]

please share information about kosa

@pukicho @pmseymourva @firefox-official

@biggest-gaudiest-patronuses @i-am-a-fish @itsapmseymour @theshitpostcalligrapher

@evilwizard @staffs-secret-blog

[txtstotheworld]

Do you think kosa is actually going to pass?

Cause I keep on hearing rumors that it is going to…

While I do attempt to keep my opinions off of this blog, I will answer this question.

I feel like yes, there is a high probability of KOSA passing. Especially with bills akin to those in Florida and Kansas being passed.

I personally am against KOSA. I need you all to realize that if this passes, my blog is being deleted. I am a minor, and my parents do not know about my social medias. Nor do they need to know.

However, we must realize that

A: KOSA has not left senate as of April 5th (senate will not return until the 8th)

B: Many bills are being produced to provide better solutions to the problem KOSA claims to solve

C: It has to pass every other step in the law making process

D: The bill will not be enforced until 18 months after it is instated.

I highly encourage you all to research and protest. Do not take rumors at face value. Research. Look up what is true. If we don't look into things, misinformation can be spread. We do not know anything for sure until it happens.

RESOURCES:

STOP INTERNET CENSORSHIP DISCORD

BAD INTERNET BILLS

SENATE SCHEDULE

ANTI KOSA PETITION

FIND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE (SENATE)

FIND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE (HOUSE)

CALL SCRIPTS:

Use left if your rep is republican, use right if democratic.

[craycraybluejay]

AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED on writing erotic povs of 'problematic content.'

I'm sorry, but if you write exclusively as a soulless narrator with politically correct and culturally moral opinions, your writing is boring. Give your narrator some spice! Yes, you can write murder erotically. Yes, you can write a cute wholesome scene like its the most disgusting thing in the universe from the narrator's perspective. You can write a mean narrator that pokes fun at the reader. You can write a weirdly maternal narrator that holds your readers hand and is meant to come off as mildly patronizing. You can write a sarcastic narrator, or an extremely blunt narrator. You can even write a narrator that is some insane political extremist. It's fiction. Creative writing. So be creative.

Write characters who's thought processes and actions are awful and make them look appealing. Write scenes that are relatively normal and make them look scary or strange. Please just write with some shred of creativity.

I need to go to the fucking library and read some good classics before I go fucking crazy. Y'all do not know how to just let go and enjoy the artistic process and it Shows. Everything is a reflection of you as a person. You always feel watched and judged. In the age of the internet, I guess it's understandable. (D'ya see what I did there, sympathetic to a problematic character-- in this case, the audience that wants to kill art for its wild spirit?)

Anyway here's a writing prompt:

Write a narrator that isn't Your Social Face. Bonus points if the narrator is telling the story very differently from how the characters or scenery do. Put your whole pussy into it bro.

And remember. The narrator is a character, too. And that character does not have to be You.

[copperbadge]

storieswritteninthesand

Love this post - thankyou! Slightly tangential request: as a primary teacher I would LOVE to hear any elements of the freedom of expression unit that you can recall? I realise they’re likely blurry, but it sounds fantastic and impactful and I’d love to at least  ponder creating something similar…

I wish I could recall more -- I’m sure we must have done activities surrounding it, but mostly what I remember is just him talking to us about it. He was a really interesting teacher at a really interesting school; it was a private school for gifted kids (I had to test in when I was six or seven) and extremely liberal, I don’t think he could have done it in a public school. He also taught us about revisionist history and colonialism super young. 

What I remember is that it was tied into a study of foundational government documents like the Magna Carta and the US Constitution; basically he did a nine-year-old-eye-level view of the history of democracy, so he didn’t talk about details or nuances or even dates and names, he just said, you know, this is kind of how it went. And one of the ideas nested in there somewhere (along with a few others like explaining how free public education was established and worked, and how taxes worked) was the idea of freedom of expression. 

I remember him explaining to us that in some countries, in history and the modern era, you could be arrested for saying an opinion; you could be put in prison for having your own ideas about the world. He talked to us about how freedom of expression meant that the government couldn’t persecute you for what you said, but you could still get in trouble for it with other people. “Like how you can’t swear around your parents.” Very much “protects you from the government, not the Justin.” 

And then he just started asking us questions, like should you get in trouble for lying? What if you lie to a bunch of people and someone gets hurt? What if you lie in a way that breaks a law, like saying you didn’t rob a bank when you did? (“Shouting fire in a crowded theater” was one he used, it’s a fairly standard example). He didn’t talk about sex at all ‘cause we were nine-year-olds, but I can see in the discourse on Kink At Pride the examples he would have made. (I didn’t find out until much later, but he was gay and was deeply impacted by the AIDS epidemic; in the summers when he wasn’t teaching he basically just spent three months getting repeatedly arrested for civil disobedience at protests. He also taught us about passive resistance, going limp when being arrested so that it’s harder to move you around and takes up more manpower.)

He just talked to us about like, there is a balance between freedom of expression and public safety that we have to navigate and it’s always changing, so you have to be able to discuss it, you can’t just make blanket statements about it. It’s not a right that you just have, it’s a negotiation that as a responsible adult you have to engage with. 

I wish I could remember if he gave us activities about it, but I just remember it being a long conversation. 

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Absolutely no ideology is exempt from scrutiny, criticism or mockery. Freedom of speech and freedom of expression are non-negotiable human rights."

Blasphemy laws and #NoDebate are illegitimate.

[danneroni]

⭐🌈 BE YOURSELF! 🌈⭐