We already have limitations on free speech in the "first world".
Ask somebody involved in a merger how "free" their speech is.
Or somebody involved in a court case.
At issue is what we choose to protect from harmful lies.
Wealthy people with good access to lawyers can sue for defamation. A courtroom is protected by perjury laws. Business is protected from fraud.
And yet the tools to fight the COVID pandemic are beneath protection? Minorities are beneath protection?
Look at the Americans -- half the country still thinks the election was stolen, and the only people facing consequences for that are the ones who lied about Dominion Voting Solutions because there a business had standing to show damages.
Free speech online has been tried, the end result is 4chan, which gave way to Qanon. When fascism takes hold in the first world, it will be "free speech" without any protection of truth that ushered it there.
Ask somebody involved in a merger how "free" their speech is.
Or somebody involved in a court case.
At issue is what we choose to protect from harmful lies.
Wealthy people with good access to lawyers can sue for defamation. A courtroom is protected by perjury laws. Business is protected from fraud.
And yet the tools to fight the COVID pandemic are beneath protection? Minorities are beneath protection?
Look at the Americans -- half the country still thinks the election was stolen, and the only people facing consequences for that are the ones who lied about Dominion Voting Solutions because there a business had standing to show damages.
Free speech online has been tried, the end result is 4chan, which gave way to Qanon. When fascism takes hold in the first world, it will be "free speech" without any protection of truth that ushered it there.