[pfdietz]

Spurious claims that damage someone else's reputation are libel or slander, and are rightly actionable.

I've long thought that doing to this what copyright trolls did to copyright infringement is a road to profit for social media companies. Help connect the outspoken with the damaged and take a cut.

[mmooss]

So how do you preserve free speech?

[pfdietz]

Don't commit libel or slander. Laws against such have always been consistent with the First Amendment.

[mmooss]

You're ignoring the problem I mentioned above. That's not a solution, just pretending the system you envision is viable. Let's look at the problem and make it viable.

[pfdietz]

I'd consider it an improvement over the current situation, where discourse is drowned in a sea of sanctionable incivility. Technology that has made spreading the shit easier needs to be matched by technology to control the shit.

[mmooss]

If you support them taking someone else's speech away, what will they say when the come for you? What will anyone else say?

[pfdietz]

I support taking away noxious speech that was never protected.

Do you support violations of law if people can get away with them?