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Mr. Niss's avatar

I did not have any idea that the Times editorial board, of all people, said that free speech is the right of people “to speak their minds and voice their opinions in public without fear of being shamed or shunned". That's actually the exact opposite of free speech.

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Davis Doherty's avatar

All of us who used the internet pre-2000 should remember what unmoderated forums looked like. It was godawful--a relatively small number of awful people could pretty quickly drive out the "good" users and ruin an otherwise useful forum. It wasn't even that long ago, so I'm not sure why the techbros need to relearn that lesson.

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