I recently learned that voting on lemmy is not anonymous. Anyone can get information about who has upvoted and downvoted a post or comment.
In combination with your IP, this is a massive privacy (maybe even physical security) risk. Also, people can target you for your votes.
Sadly, this is something where I would prefer Reddit over Lemmy. Big tech scrapes data from both places anyways, at least Reddit is safe.
This thing you’re experiencing right now is called cognitive dissonance. Good luck with it.
And the rampant illiteracy.
Thanks, I have terrible spelling and gramma and I have free speech. I feel like your trying to say that if someone says something shitty and you get harassed for the shitty statement, you don’t have free speech. That is incorrect on all levels. You were able to say it. If you get arrested for it, that is not free speech.
Downvote me all you want, I still have my voice.
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Free speech isnt freedom from consequences