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by koheripbal 2085 days ago
If you read down, you'll see that he views Freedom of Speech as a cultural norm, not merely a law that restricts congress.

...and that unpopular speech, should be broadly tolerated even on private platforms, as a matter of culture - not law.

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Using "cultural norms" seems .. odd, those are waaaay more restrictive than pure legalistic viewpoints.

I mean, when we're talking about competing cultural norms, now you're including "fire in a theater", "think of the children", "I know it when I see it", "fighting words", taboos, morals, indecency, fighting words, Popper's intolerance of intolerance, "slippery slopes", and all kinds of restrictions on speech that aren't seated in anything but "cultural norms."

Better to stick with the legal arguments.