my instance has been defederated from .ml for ages and i can personally confirm fedi is still fun here :) take that as you will

that’s fair, i’ll edit to say speaks unclearly rather than misspeaks. thanks for the clarification :)

@[email protected] speaks unclearly when saying “public space”—the term they are thinking of is usually “public forum.” source

The rules around what constitutes a true public forum and what the public forum doctrine even means are fuzzy, but in all cases the term refers to a space owned or created by the government.

Thus, a shopping mall, parking lot, or internet forum, being owned by a private company, is not a public forum and can’t really be defended on the basis of the public forum doctrine.

Finally, as @[email protected] points out, none of this matters anyway in cases of incitement to imminent lawless action like threats or terrorist speech, which the First Amendment does not protect.

on occasion one logs into the internet only to be confronted with the darnedest things said with such confidence

you know what else is pointlessly gendered? the patriarchy

feminist messaging has to be gendered because the patriarchy is a gender issue.

that said, feminism is for everybody. liberating women from oppressive structures by nature does the same for men.