When so-called Free Speech Absolutists begin to work hard to protect the free speech of their opponents (rather than seek political and legal means to shut them down) I'll be more inclined to believe their support for free speech in principle & not merely the attempt of the powerful to have their say while denying others their's.... until then lets be clear these supporters of free speech are not what they claim to be (which is no news to most of you, I realise).
Classic LPs for vinyl returnees No.6
The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper Lonely Heart's Club Band
Many of you likely thought I'd start here & to be frank I didn't just to make a point, but of course the Beatles most famous LP was ground-breaking; while consolidating some previous moves in popular music, it made a major statement about what was possible with the LP format. It needs little introduction other than to say the history of LPs would look quite different without it!
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President Trump hasn’t lost a penny because of the BBC’s editing, and his $10 billion lawsuit against them is preposterous.
The only way for the BBC to preserve its journalistic integrity is to fight back.
Read our statement:
https://freedom.press/issues/trumps-bbc-lawsuit-is-nonsense-like-his-others/
We are about to get a "post-American internet," because we are entering a post-American *era* and a post-American *world*. Some of that is Trump's doing, and some of that is down to his predecessors.
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https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/#disenshittification-nations
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