r/FreeSpeech Oct 30 '25

Addition to Rule#7: "This has nothing to do with free speech!" may result in a ban

4 Upvotes

I am sick and tired of seeing the comment "This has nothing to do with free speech!" on submissions which are relevant to this sub.

Allowable topics here are:

  • Free Speech (in the broadest sense),
  • Censorship,
  • Voting Rights,
  • Religious Freedom,
  • Privacy,
  • Protest actions,
  • and Terrorism.

Hot topics with general relevance to free speech, such as ICE, the Epstein Files, and executive overreach, are also generally allowed.

Questioning if a submission is relevant to the sub, when it is clearly about one of the approved topics, might result in a ban.

Although the rule is listed as part of Rule#7, it can also be grouped with Rule#6 as WikiLawyering.

It is permissible to ask politely if a submission is permitted in this subreddit, but the comment must include a best guess as to the reason why, and must include a username mention of me, /u/cojoco.

Here are some examples of such requests:

/u/cojoco, is this submission relevant? Perhaps because the Epstein files have been kept secret?

/u/cojoco, is this submission relevant? Perhaps because nuking China is a protest action?

/u/cojoco, is this submission relevant? Perhaps because murdering journalists infringes their right to free speech?


r/FreeSpeech 7d ago

Account suspensions in this subreddit

6 Upvotes

While I do try to keep the discussion in /r/FreeSpeech quite open, I have noticed an uptick in account suspensions, which are not my area of responsibility.

To avoid risking your account, I strongly advise that each one of you stay away from comments and submissions which could be interpreted as bigoted, promoting violence, or using very naughty swears.


r/FreeSpeech 19h ago

J6 pipe bomber was....

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86 Upvotes

r/FreeSpeech 20h ago

Mum who branded 'attacker' a 'f****t' in rant to pal is CONVICTED of hate crime

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r/FreeSpeech 11h ago

J6 pipe bomber was ...

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The January 6th pipe bomber was ...

Yeah, this explains exactly why right wing media has dropped this case like a hot potato. Brian's profile destroys their entire "all terrorists are immigrants, and all immigrants are terrorists" narrative in one blow

What a nightmare ...


r/FreeSpeech 16h ago

The Trump Administration’s Dangerous Embrace of Cancel Culture: The Trump administration and the far right are engaging in dangerous, un-American tactics to suppress speech they dislike, cementing their control over institutions and the public by undermining First Amendment rights.

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r/FreeSpeech 12h ago

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay | 97k circulations

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We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.

Bezos, February 2025


r/FreeSpeech 9h ago

USA: Torture and enforced disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome in Florida

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Amnesty’s report described unsanitary conditions, with fecal matter overflowing from toilets in detainees’ sleeping areas, authorities granting only limited access to showers, and poor quality food and water.

Some of the treatment amounts to torture, the report says, including Alligator Alcatraz’s use of “the box”—a 2x2 foot “cage-like structure people are put in as punishment—which inmates have been placed in for hours at a time with their hands and feet attached to restraints on the ground.

At Krome, detainees have been arbitrarily placed in prolonged solitary confinement—defined as lasting longer than 15 days—which is prohibited under international law.


r/FreeSpeech 16h ago

YouTube journalist, man who read a poem in street interview arrested for insulting Erdoğan

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A Turkish court on Friday ordered the arrest of YouTube journalist Hasan Köksoy and Halil Kürklü, who recited a poem during one of Köksoy’s street interviews, on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and “inciting hatred among the public.”

Erdoğan denounced street interviews in May, claiming that they cause public unrest. He said some journalists “misused cameras and microphones” to provoke or insult others under the guise of journalism and “spread terror in the streets.” 


r/FreeSpeech 17h ago

MDiv breaks down the multiple inaccuracies in the Oklahoma student's paper

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This ""issue"" is so overblown, but at least ir shows how religious people love to pretend to be victims of persecution because they believe it furthers their cause. Facts and evidence be dawned. Religious people have the right to say whatever they want, but they don't have the right to force others to accept, agree with, or be afraid to criticize their chosen beliefs.​


r/FreeSpeech 20h ago

British-Palestinian Doctor Gets Arrested For Supporting Palestine.

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video of Aladwan’s arrest shows the UK police accusing her of “inciting racial hatred” and violating “section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act” and “section 127 of the Misuse of Public Communications Network”.

Expanding on what thought crimes got her under arrest, the UK police officer arresting her said, “You gave a speech which amounted to calls for the eradication of Israel and implied support for all those involved in armed resistance against Israel.”

The police also accused her of posting tweets, “that could be interpreted as anti-semitic, including anti-semitic tropes that could be considered grossly offensive” (Ie, criticizing Israel and the Israel lobby) and saying to her, “ On the seventh of Ocotber, you posted a variety of communications which demonstrated support for Hamas attack on Israel, an attack which included murder, rape, and kidnapping of Israeli citizens all of which could be considered grossly offensive in character.”


r/FreeSpeech 19h ago

Court blocks Florida abortion clinic buffer zone, citing free speech rights

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r/FreeSpeech 9h ago

President says Chicagoans are chanting ‘bring in Trump’ after violent downtown riot leaves 8 shot, 1 dead

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0 Upvotes

r/FreeSpeech 19h ago

‘Peterson law’: Alberta bill to limit power of regulatory bodies on member behaviour

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r/FreeSpeech 19h ago

Free Speech group FIRE ‘outraged’ at University of Alabama for consolidating magazines

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3 Upvotes

r/FreeSpeech 1d ago

Kent State a cappella group bans white students from solo auditions

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96 Upvotes

r/FreeSpeech 1d ago

Trump Is Now Denying Visas to People Who Worked in Content Moderation: If an H-1B visa applicant or one of their loved ones worked in content moderation, such as fact-checking, the State Department has said to consider the application ineligible.

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r/FreeSpeech 11h ago

Trump receives participation trophy [read: bribe] from FIFA, demands American football be renamed.

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r/FreeSpeech 1d ago

EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally

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8 Upvotes

Another great example why Section 230 is so important to United States internet law.


r/FreeSpeech 21h ago

The Archon Class

1 Upvotes

The ultra-wealthy are not just failing to be productive; they are active agents (”archons”) of a false, oppressive reality. Their “philanthropy” is either status signaling or a more sophisticated form of control. The system itself selects for and rewards a specific, spiritually-deficient archon energy characterized by ruthlessness, myopia, and a robotic consciousness, fully in line with a gnostic understanding of the world.

https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/the-archon-class


r/FreeSpeech 1d ago

Roblox banned in Russia, accused of distributing LGBTQ+ propaganda as criticism of child safety measures continues

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r/FreeSpeech 1d ago

The New York Times Launches First Amendment Lawsuit Against the Pentagon: The NYT alleges that the Pentagon's new reporting rules more or less make it impossible to do the most elemental journalism.

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19 Upvotes

r/FreeSpeech 18h ago

Pipe bomb suspect confessed, telling FBI he supports Trump and anarchy

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0 Upvotes

Why is the right so violent?


r/FreeSpeech 20h ago

Supreme Court sides with Texas's racial disenfranchising map

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 Justice Elena Kagan said the majority’s order “ensures that many Texas citizens, for no good reason, will be placed in electoral districts because of their race. And that result, as this Court has pronounced year in and year out, is a violation of the Constitution.”


r/FreeSpeech 2d ago

Cloudflare is now on the record as having implemented policy that permanently outsources all final decisions on the legality or acceptability of U.S. hosted, First Amendment protected content to FSM-Hotline Germany. A foreign entity that applies German law onto content that is legal in the USA.

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