Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

#FreeSpeech jurisprudence, in its simplest form, can be analogized as the crazy hobo delivering sermons on the street:

You're free to voice any opinion you want.
But you can't force anyone to listen to you.
And you're not entitled to use anyone else's megaphone.

In other words, you have a free speech right to scream into the void, and the rest of us have a free speech right to decide if we give enough of a shit to listen.

In other news, 27 states have banded together to sue Dungeons & Dragons for promoting witchcraft, 35 states have banded together to sue "rock & roll" music for "promoting impure thoughts and glamorizing drug use", and Boston & Cleveland have banded together to sue "all sports" for "intentionally dividing the nation."

#FreeSpeech #1A

Look, I get that marginalized communities are scared of the increase in far-right and outright fascist rhetoric, but enacting fascist laws to fight fascists is never going to be a good fucking idea.

The answer is not giving the government (which has fascists in it!) more power. The answer is #FreeSpeech and making sure that our arguments for inclusivity are more convincing than their arguments for hate.

Okay, I'm not usually one for #introduction posts, but here goes:

I grew up in the very conservative American Midwest and then moved to #Florida on my 18th birthday.

I love building #VideoGames more than I love playing them. I started my career with #EASports working on their first #MMA game (what later became the UFC series). I've since gone indie and released two #games by myself: #uFactory (https://store.steampowered.com/app/923710/uFactory/), a big game still in Early Access, and #CircuitCity (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1748260/Circuit_City/), a little game built around the idea of gameplay driving music. I also released a fun little demo for #VR a while back called #GrapplePlanet (https://lucidsilencegames.itch.io/grapple-planet)

I'm still building more games (and working on uFactory!) while paying the bills with drier #SoftwareEngineering work, hoping to eventually release a game that can grasp a chunk of the zeitgeist.

On here, I'll mostly be debating #technology, #freespeech (largely in the context of #America's #FirstAmendment), and general #AmericanPolitics. My political leaning can most closely be described as "left-libertarian". I.e. Everyone deserves #EqualRights, consistent with the #NonAggression policy. I registered as a #Democrat on January 7th, 2021.

Feel free to reach out. I'm happy to debate anyone in good faith.