[kibwen]

The fundamental tension that you must resolve is that if your notion of free speech allows people to screech incoherently into megaphones to drown out everyone else in the room, then you don't have free speech.

Censors have learned that they don't need to deny people the right to speak, they just need to drown it out with infinite noise.

There is no simple or easy resolution to this problem. The only useful platforms for the free exchange of ideas must find ways to balance the signal:noise ratio, which is isomorphic to moderation. And if you ask, "who does the moderation?", yes, that's precisely the problem. Unfortunately, the alternative, no moderation, is trivial to censor in practice.

Furthermore, keep in mind that free speech is a means, not an end. Free society is the end.