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This is a popular idea around here but is actually fairly radical and a pretty significant departure from what free speech has been understood to mean in the past.

That doesn't make it wrong and we do seem to be headed in that general direction. Just understand that what you're proposing doesn't necessarily follow from pre-internet free speech protections and is a different ideal.



> free speech has been understood to mean in the past.

I actually think the opposite , that in the past free speech was a well guarded liberalist ideal, and we 've regressed to confusing the freedom of internal monologue as free speech.


The people banned from Twitter or otherwise 'censored' by private business are still free to use a literal soapbox in the literal town square to communicate with fellow citizens.

It does require more effort though; there is that.


not in a pandemic




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