Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

2/2/2026, 10:56:03 PM

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This essay on what's wrong with protecting "free speech culture" (as opposed to free speech) by @kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gyDomestic Enemy Hat is excellent. www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-fashio...

‘Free Speech Culture’ Prefers the Powerful to the Powerless

“Free speech culture” has a natural tendency to prefer the interests of more powerful, famous, wealthy people with bigger platforms over the interests of more powerless, obscure, poor people without big platforms. If people who give speeches and participate in debates are inherently heroes and people who “excessively” criticize them or call them to be deplatformed or punished are inherently villains, then the heroes are going to be professional pundits and politicians and other prominent folks. And the villains are going to be students and people whose platform is a hand-lettered sign or a shout at a protest or a screed on a social media account.

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