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who@feddit.org to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long

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Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long

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An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260219195154/https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLPF3rTT0mY&t=7100s

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    That YouTube video is wild. Approximately 20 seconds from being first notified that his time was up, officers had already come up to him. 20 seconds. He handed them his documents. He was done. There was no logical reason for the arrest.

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      The arrest was done to warn the other peasants

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      Sure there was, they wanted to show their power.

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      Link?

      • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
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        It’s in the original post.

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    That must be that “freedom” that Vance and Rubio say Europe lacks.

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    ACAB

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    One of our local public transit advocates did nothing more than present at city council meetings. They ordered the security team to follow him everywhere in the building, to the bathroom, and his car.

    Even basic challenges to the people in your government is all too often met with straight up oppression tactics. He got them to stop by going to the press with it. Nothing else worked except more public pressure.

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    They arrest the opposition for nothing to keep others from speaking out.

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    This data center they’re hysterically agitating to build is going to take part of someone’s yard, someone’s entire house and property, and it will be right by a neighborhood making it’s stupid noise. And a lot of people outside of the town will have to deal with $400 per month electric bills, and they just can’t afford it.

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    Land of the free.

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      Whoever told you that is your enemy

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    Talk too long in a public forum? Believe it or not, straight to jail.

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    Years ago there was a sketch in France making parody of local news to denounce racism: Anchor: “A man shot at a group of Arabs arguing they were too loud. After investigations, the police concluded that indeed, the Arabs were too loud”.

    This news brought that immediately in my mind.

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    “Shut up, Poors.”

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    You’re only allowed to protest low-income housing in your local town you fucking idiot! God know’s that’s how democracy works dumby~

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    The party of “small government” . I’m sure he’s on the maga cancel culture concentration camp list now…brought to you by palantir because f you

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    Used his free speech a little bit too long

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      He exceeded his quota of free tokens

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      If we can’t exercise our first amendment, maybe it’s time to exercise our 2nd?

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    How long until someone shoots up a construction site for a data center?

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      Don’t even have to go that far. There are cheap and easily available perfectly safe substances that can be dumped on freshly poured concrete, or in empty forms, that keeps concrete from setting up correctly.

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        Sugar is very effective at destroying concrete

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          So effective. Soda works too.

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        I mean, the data centers themselves are flammable. And you would do more damage if you waited til they were built…

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