Free speech! Free speech! Free spe-… oh. - ThreadSky

mehdirhasan.bsky.social • 5 days ago

Free speech! Free speech! Free spe-… oh.

Reposted from evy kwong

no joke, social security workers can’t access @wired.com anymore

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supratims.bsky.social•5 days ago

Free speech for the few, when it suits them.

merryghouled.bsky.social•5 days ago

Mehdi, will you and your staff please look into the reports of two (2) federal workers suicides as a result of what DOGE has done thus far? Please. 🙏

nancyimagines.bsky.social•5 days ago

WTF?

ronhitchens.bsky.social•5 days ago

We know that Donald Trump is famously thin-skinned and hates criticism.

Elon Musk: Hold my beer.

mchemar.bsky.social•5 days ago

WTF?

zencafe.bsky.social•5 days ago

I don't believe people should be reading news stories at work, no matter what their politics.

hostilepatriot.bsky.social•5 days ago

They never understood the concept.

sagcap1222.bsky.social•5 days ago

Bizarro-ville. To think, half of the population is blissfully unaware this is happening

happyhenry1.bsky.social•5 days ago

Do social security workers not have access to the internet from their homes or phones! Petty and ridiculous to the point of being laughable.

sissyspacecake.bsky.social•5 days ago

You mean at work, right? Or, at all?

How can they police what people watch in their own time? Or am I missing something.

janbellina.bsky.social•5 days ago

I think this is more a ‘pound of flesh’ initiative.

lastgreatact.bsky.social•5 days ago

Government is so lost.

penboyasgod.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thank you for informing us: I didn't know "wired.com" existed for news items. I'm checking it out.

mikefulk.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oh. That’s what they meant. Twitter files were a ruse.

kwalls.bsky.social•5 days ago

!!!!!!!

cannot access wired anymore???

vieuxquelquechose.bsky.social•5 days ago

The US is a dictatorship now. Early phase, a little ,but like cancer a little is not good.

stephenowens.bsky.social•5 days ago

Americans argued that they had guns so that they have protection against tyranny. Tyranny being one man rule without regard to law. So I guess that second amendment will soon show it's real value.

floofberrypharms.bsky.social•5 days ago

This happened where I work too and it was the embedded ads & AI that took down https://MSN.com (and others) with the blocking filters as opposed to it being a news site. I’m not saying that happened here, just providing a possible cause (under a diff administration)

tabooze.bsky.social•5 days ago

Freedom is slavery.

snig.bsky.social•5 days ago

Someone got sacked for not removing their pronouns from their email. The Trump administration are a bunch of snowflakes.
https://eu.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2025/03/05/texas-agency-orders-remove-pronouns-fires-employee-who-refused/80020922007/

stephenowens.bsky.social•5 days ago

This guy must learn that when the president says free speech he means like his boss being free to say you're fired.

snig.bsky.social•5 days ago

Funny how it is never the free speech to disagree with them which they'll uphold.

snig.bsky.social•4 days ago

Government memos seek to ban words from public facing websites and school curricula. Examples include discrimination, equality, disability, diversity, women, sexuality, racism, gender ideology, social justice, anti-racism, allyship, LGBT, climate science, pronouns.
https://archive.ph/HC6ky

officer-blackavar.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is so daft. Given that list you couldn't even write a financial report. These are not serious people.

snig.bsky.social•1 day ago

Donald Trump amplifies a Nazi-Era “No LGBTQ” symbol on Truth Social, in a post about military recruitment adverts. His post shares a story titled "Army recruitment ads look quite different under Trump". Because Trump's fragility means he's threatened by LGBTQ people.
https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-amplifies-no-lgbtq-symbol-using-nazi-era-imagery-in-military-ad-post

nmmtns.bsky.social•3 days ago

There is no debate, they are nazis through and through.

richjvann.bsky.social•5 days ago

It only took Hitler 53 days. How long will it take Trump?!?

Not long I guess, since the Dem leaders, either in disbelief this is actually happening or they are actually in on it, won’t admit that this current government is not legitimate and won’t take action outside the fully compromised system.

noemiecaty.bsky.social•5 days ago

Newsmax as the home page I guess?

honoranddecency.bsky.social•5 days ago

But can they receive Wired on their phones at work?

lovedogs8.bsky.social•5 days ago

Free speech for me but not for thee.

finn426.bsky.social•5 days ago

I mean.. they have cellphones

tcas101.bsky.social•5 days ago

Reminds me of North Korea.

giuliano51.bsky.social•5 days ago

More proof that it is only free speech when you give information the Trump regime wants you to hear. If it is something that resembles truth it will be blocked.

antifascistfella.bsky.social•5 days ago

"Free speech"
Nazi regime, its real, and its happening now!

hypergraphic.bsky.social•4 days ago

The madman wants to shut down free speech and media!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-is-targeting-media-and-chilling-free-speech/ar-AA1ArXvr?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=0859569ede9b430ca27b44f349e3e851&ei=19

mjk4mj.bsky.social•5 days ago

A member of the Bonesaw Regime (Saudi) gave money to Musk so he could destroy Twitter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-funders/

mjk4mj.bsky.social•5 days ago

2022: "Elon Musk was spotted with a sanctioned, pro-Putin Russian ..." https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-spotted-pro-putin-russian-tv-presenter-world-cup-2022-12
2018: https://www.npr.org/2018/04/21/604497554/why-do-russian-journalists-keep-falling

mjk4mj.bsky.social•5 days ago

2019: "China blocks Washington Post, Guardian websites: report" https://thehill.com/policy/international/china/447614-china-blocks-washington-post-guardian-websites-report/
"Tesla boss Elon Musk says he loves China, so Premier Li Keqiang offers him a green card" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/10/elon-musk-china-green-card-1074123

francinestew.bsky.social•5 days ago

And voila. The US is the new Russia

discoveringjoan.bsky.social•5 days ago

My “stand out” moment this week happened just after a gutsy 77 year old civil rights veteran (with a walking stick) was physically expelled (from a hall of cowards) for speaking up, the rapist gaslit the room with the classic line: “We’ve brought free speech back”.

Nobody said shit.

Stunning.

ladyboater.bsky.social•5 days ago

How long until BlueSky is switched off in the US?

slhamlet.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's like Metallica knew in 1998 that MAGA was coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vgVLDIRx5U

notelon.bsky.social•5 days ago

WaPo doesn't qualify as free speech anymore though, only Bezos speech.

yargmit.bsky.social•5 days ago

Freedom from speech, honesty, integrity, truth, common sense, economic security, etc... is the Republican way! Ignorance is held in high regard.

adybee.bsky.social•4 days ago

mgocoder.bsky.social•5 days ago

Musk is the most anti-free speech force we've seen in this country in a century.

He's violently anti-free speech.

not-on-my-account.bsky.social•5 days ago

A while ago when twitter was first LBO'd by Musk.

cielwilliams.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'm an old bat and don't know the new fangled workplace Internet rules. I'm not sure why Social Security personnel would need to access wired, news, or shopping sites on their work computers. When they're on lunch or breaks, they can use their personal phones.

krakoan-lorax.bsky.social•5 days ago

NYT and WaPo being on here is pretty funny, all that Trump ass-kissing and yet...

darth2024.bsky.social•5 days ago

I still follow them on here, only to keep tabs on what they're publishing. I no longer visit either site.

krakoan-lorax.bsky.social•5 days ago

I meant included in the list of banned publications at SSA

heavymode.bsky.social•5 days ago

DoD blocked @davidpakman.bsky.social website

mysticmarzipan.bsky.social•5 days ago

How comes America cannot stop talking about free speech but fails to see the correlation between that freedom and censorship of information? You can’t have free speech if you haven’t got free access to information.

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