An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community.

[404mediaco@mastodon.social]

An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/

[lor@goingdark.social]

@404mediaco

FASCISTS

[benpocalypse@mastodon.social]

@404mediaco 🆒🆒🆒

[old_angry_queer@girlcock.club]

@404mediaco

"Politicians yet again forget that things like public comment and protest are the compromise to the older (and arguably better) form of dissent: Tar & Feather, and Guillotine"

[mixmistressalice@ni.hil.ist]

@404mediaco
TESCREAL eugenicists and fascists cloud-capitalists knows no bound.

[zompetto@mastodon.art]

@404mediaco #NotTheOnion :(

[inchulk@mastodon.green]

@404mediaco These police appear to be black-shirts.

[wen@mastodon.scot]

@404mediaco Auditioning for ICE?

[agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social]

@404mediaco The Capital Police should have done that with Pam Bondi when she gave "non-responsive" answers. She intentionally wasted Congress' time to avoid oversight, which is her duty to support.

[ericlawton@kolektiva.social]

@404mediaco

Are they going to start arresting the men at academic conferences with "more of a comment than a question"?

@bonaventuresoft

[aamurusko79@tech.lgbt]

@404mediaco At this point I see nothing but intimidation and trying to make people cover in fear.

[f800gecko@mastodon.online]

@404mediaco

Land of the free*

* billionaires

[melioristicmarie@tech.lgbt]

@404mediaco oklahoma is not ok.

[europlus@social.europlus.zone]

@404mediaco @petrillic free speech charged in 3min increments.

[cyrevolt@mastodon.social]

@404mediaco I wanted to check if this is a misleading headline.
Sadly paywalled. *sigh*
Not that I would be surprised if that was really all there is to it.

Addendum, what makes it sus:
"Police arrested him when [sic!] he went a few seconds over his time limit."
It says "when", not "because". The headline reads "for speaking too long". So the question is what else happened there.

[rebelgeek99@mastodon.social]

@404mediaco @Netux oof. They're not fucking around.

[ingram@mastodon.social]

Non paywalled story... https://www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklahoma-news/arrest-made-during-heated-claremore-meeting-over-proposed-data-center

[fuzzygroup@ruby.social]

@404mediaco As somebody who spent a lot of 2025 speaking out at town halls and other meetings just like this, this could have been me.

It could be you.

[iriyan@kolektiva.social]

And the datacenter industrialist, on his defense, said "we didn't make the rules" ...

and that destimony was incomplete so it should be dropped from the proceedings' notes.

@404mediaco

[ulrich_the_elder@thecanadian.social]

@404mediaco Serious question: Are you still calling yourselves "the land of the free?" If you are you should stop as you are now one of the least free nations on the planet.