[humanrebar]

Not sure I follow all that, but MLK's theology (and the Declaration of Independence) recognize people as being special creatures. And each person is given an inherent dignity by his or her Creator. In American culture, this means limiting someone's freedom of expression (legally) has to come after some due process involving proof of real harm. The same impulse applies to social conventions, though there isn't the same bright line between tolerance and censorship.

Anyway, AI twitter bots aren't people, so they don't get the same benefit of the doubt. The false equivalence here is that "person" applies to robots as easily as human beings.