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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Are you looking for 'freedom of speech' or 'no one moderates my shitty opinions'? Because in my experience, the only people looking for FrEe SpEeCh zones are the latter.

Lemmy has plenty of the former, and anyone looking for the latter can kindly fuck off to their own instance so it can be defederated.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean you're owed a platform or that people aren't able to respond to your shitty opinions.

[–] VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Come on OP, tells us the opinion you said that got you banned from where ever you came from.

Was it about lower taxation, deregulation? Somehow I have a feeling it wasn't.

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 13 points 15 hours ago

Freedom of speech means freedom from prosecution if you say something unpopular - not that other people have to like or tolerate it. Getting banned or having your comments removed doesn't infringe on your freedom of speech. When you join someone else's instance, they're free to moderate it however they want. If you disagree with their moderation practices, you can always create your own instance.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 8 points 15 hours ago

Unmoderated instances never last for long

[–] MuttMutt@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

If you feel that instance are not free enough you can roll your own.

When you do that you have control over everything. Be aware that your host may have rules about what can be held on their hardware so if you truly want free speech and say anything you want you will need to self host. On top of that most ISP's will have rules about what can be transmitted on their network so you will need to find an ISP or colocation farm that doesn't have those pesky rules...

Here is a post to get you started https://lemmy.world/post/993816

Good luck in your journey.

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

i recommend going back to whichever nazi shithole you crawled out of

[–] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 6 points 15 hours ago

Define free-speech.

It always has some limit, typically hate speech, deffamation, and crime apology are off-limit

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Chances are that if you're asking that question, your best option is probably to set up your own instance.

But you won't get much engagement most likely and no one will federate with you. Some opinions seem really popular in a bot-ridden echo chamber, but then you force yourself to interact with actual people and realize that, while you may be free to say things other people abhor, the vast majority (sans bot-driven engagement) find those sorts of things abhorrent.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

They all support freedom of speech they agree with.

You can start your own instance if you feel like they are too restrictive.

[–] leftascenter@jlai.lu 1 points 12 hours ago

Beehaw. Very strict be nice ruleset, ensuring free speech and tolerance against intolerance and people against free speech (or who have a shit definition of it)

[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world -1 points 9 hours ago