There is no Free Speech if you can't speak freely where speech is actually happening.
So if nearly all speech is moving online to massive social media sites, and you can't speak there freely, but instead your speech is subject to the whims of random employees - there is no Free Speech in this situation.
> It certainly doesn't mean speech without consequences of any sort nor does it mean that you automatically get an audience for it.
But it does mean you can speak. Even if there may be consequences, and even if you don't automatically get an audience.
That's the right I'm supporting here, against an alarmingly large group that seems to consider this right to be no longer necessary, and even undesirable.
There is no Free Speech if you can't speak freely where speech is actually happening.
So if nearly all speech is moving online to massive social media sites, and you can't speak there freely, but instead your speech is subject to the whims of random employees - there is no Free Speech in this situation.
> It certainly doesn't mean speech without consequences of any sort nor does it mean that you automatically get an audience for it.
But it does mean you can speak. Even if there may be consequences, and even if you don't automatically get an audience.
That's the right I'm supporting here, against an alarmingly large group that seems to consider this right to be no longer necessary, and even undesirable.