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Free speech is a cultural phenomenon in addition to a constitutional policy.

Everyone wants to reduce everything to laws for some reason when the whole reason they are laws is because we value them culturally. The law is a last resort. We shouldn't be setting societal boundaries merely on extreme limits of law.

Trying to fix these cultural issues at gunpoint via courts is no better than trying to fix culture via censorship and social isolation.



There is this constant borrowing of justification from the constitutional/legal side to argue that companies should moderate their platforms in a particular way.

Then there is just a marketing angle of saying you're free speech to pull users from the platform that you think is against free speech.

The whole thing feels really shaky as a genuine movement and feels more like regulating companies they don't like.




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