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If this sale goes ahead it will be interesting to find out Elon Musk’s definition of free speech. Is a mob “speech”?

Under one perspective mobs are not speech, they are repressions on speech and thus any free speech advocate ought to want to clamp down on them.

Under another perspective mobs are speech, and should be protected like any other speech.

Neither perspective is wrong per se, it just depends how you interpret the “free” in free speech to refer to freedom from what.



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