“Clapping Is a First Amendment Right:” An Interview With the Person Arrested for Clapping at a Data Center Meeting
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"I have a right to speak. I'm here to speak. I have a right to clap, and if you want me out, you're going to have to drag me out."

Last Wednesday, Lux Claridge planned to speak out against a proposed 1,000 acre data center in their town of Emporia, Kansas. They left in handcuffs after a city commissioner ordered them arrested for clapping.

  • CompostMaterialEnglish
    75·
    1 month ago

    We are going to need international help. France, please send guillotines.

    • anon_8675309
      12·
      1 month ago

      I actually wouldn’t mind some cake but that is going in the opposite direction.

    • WizardOfFrobozz@lemmy.ca
      36·
      1 month ago

      Fuck off. You spent a couple centuries belligerently shouting about how you don’t need us because you’re EXCEPTIONALLY good at dealing with this kind of thing- and armed yourself to the teeth to prove it.

      Put up or shut up, you absolute pants-pissing cowards.