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

[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.

[rhyothemis@zeroes.ca]

@CyReVolt @404mediaco

I was able to access it without email sign-up yesterday, but not today.

Here's the YT video of the meeting, it is cued to the time where he starts speaking [1:54:52] -

https://www.youtube.com/live/xLPF3rTT0mY?&t=6892

#DataCenters

[whoopsie@social.vivaldi.net]

@jeffcliff I think language is important. It is "kidnap" or "abduct", not "arrest".

"arrest" is when there is a previously agreed upon reason, clearly not the case here.