General Stuff

This server is on the big SJW blocklist. Which is a shame, because I don't discriminate against them here, but the feeling isn't mutual. So there may be some federation limitations that I can do nothing about. Its their immaturity that's the problem here and something out of my hands.

Rules and Terms of Service

I'm not big on rules or telling people what to do, but... this is my server so I suppose there are a few limitations you should be aware of.

Now, obviously I'm big on free speech, as the domain name and general instance theme suggests. So I'm mainly interested in promoting discussion of philosophy, ethics, politics, even shitposts, really anything that floats your boat.

• I don't care what your politics are, everyone is welcome here from AnCaps to Communists and everything in between.
• Everyone here is on their own, no one gets special treatment, no one gets to be safe from criticism. You are responsible for yourself.
• Shitposts/Random fun/Memes are allowed, not everything has to be intellectual here.
• On a site that promotes political and philosophical discussion, I expect arguments to become heated sometimes. Try to sort that out yourselves, but if it looks like it's becoming disruptive I'll remind the involved parties to keep it civil.
• Avoid harassment, abusive or bullying behavior. Getting into a heated argument is one thing and that happens, so people losing their temper occasionally isn't a problem. Launching a campaign of this sort of behavior is. Put simply: We are adults here, you are expected to behave like one.
• No excessive porno, this isn't a image sharing site. There are lots of places that focus on that, go to one of them if that's your thing. No judgement, this just isn't the place for it. Posting the odd dirty image won't be a problem so long as it's not illegal stuff.
• Racism is often unclear, so let's just use some personal judgement here. If you are talking about sensitive topics regarding race, I'm looking mainly at intent here. If you are posting just to be harmful or insulting to people I'll call that racism. If you are talking about it in pretty much any other context, I call that discussion and its fine.
• There are no "immediate" bans. Users will have a chance to justify their activity, and be warned before action is taken. My concern is in repeated patterns of disruptive behavior.
• I'm in Canada, and my government doesn't believe in free speech, we don't have a 1st ammendment to protect us here. In fact, we have a lot of nonsense "hate speech" laws. Limitations on free speech enrage and disgust me, but they exist and are real, and do get enforced when the powers that be decide to forget that Democracy means "the people rule". Just keep that in mind, there isn't much I can do about that.

If you wish to contact me regarding what you feel is a violation or problem that may require my attention, feel free to contact me @shebang@freespeech.group, you do NOT need to have an account on freespeech.group.

I'd like to be able to federate nicely with others, but I also understand that some servers are just not into open discussion of ideas that might not be popular. I don't want to get a reputation as a cesspool of hate and bigotry, but if some people can't take the heat then its ok for them to leave the kitchen.

This server is backed up to a remote site daily. If something terrible happens, I'll get it back up ASAP, its intended to be a permanent site.