An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.
https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/
An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.
https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/
FASCISTS
"Politicians yet again forget that things like public comment and protest are the compromise to the older (and arguably better) form of dissent: Tar & Feather, and Guillotine"
Are they going to start arresting the men at academic conferences with "more of a comment than a question"?
@404mediaco I wanted to check if this is a misleading headline.
Sadly paywalled. *sigh*
Not that I would be surprised if that was really all there is to it.
Addendum, what makes it sus:
"Police arrested him when [sic!] he went a few seconds over his time limit."
It says "when", not "because". The headline reads "for speaking too long". So the question is what else happened there.
I was able to access it without email sign-up yesterday, but not today.
Here's the YT video of the meeting, it is cued to the time where he starts speaking [1:54:52] -

@404mediaco As somebody who spent a lot of 2025 speaking out at town halls and other meetings just like this, this could have been me.
It could be you.
And the datacenter industrialist, on his defense, said "we didn't make the rules" ...
and that destimony was incomplete so it should be dropped from the proceedings' notes.