| It's so funny to me to read this long comment with Popper quotes (from a book I read in the original German, no less) employed towards complete annihilation of the straw man that is "total free speech". Nobody* wants incitements to actual crimes on twitter. Nobody* wants "freedom" to post racial slurs on twitter. That shits get's even censored on "patriots.win" which is the successor of reddit/r/the_donald People concerned about online censorship worry about these issues among other: * conservative rappers getting banned for saying "okay dude" while lefty checkmarks can freely post violent fantasies about their political opponents. * Alexander Berenson and probably others being banned on behalf of the US government https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-becomes-a-tool-of-gover... * people getting arrested in the UK because "anti-LGBTQ social media post 'caused anxiety'" * people getting arrested for posts that are just political speech now in Germany, Austrialia, Sweden all over really * people getting banned / demonetized on Youtube for not following the party line on COVID even if they discuss peer reviewed studies and official data Let's not pretend the current free speech debate is about empowering racists to say the N-word more. * of course there is always a few nuts |