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You can’t moderate a free speech platform, that’s the thing. So I can realistically harass someone online and be well within my bounds of “free speech”. I can say the most vile things ever and be well within my bounds of free speech

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What people say must still be legal and harassment is basically not legal. I have big problems to a) see where people see their free speech limited, i.e. examples and b) there are plenty of platforms with much more laissez-faire to no moderation. But the latter has its price, those communities tend to be quite repelling to most people.

To me it seems a theoretical discussion about the definition of free speech that is mixed up with a business discussion which makes no sense.

What qualifies as harassment on a social media platform? It’s quite easy to say you’re exercising your rights. Elon and alt right conservatives want a no moderation platform where they can say anything. If that’s what they want to do, go for it but it will die because the same things always happen, echo chamber that repels everyone except a niche group

This is a common misconception. A free speech platform does not mean, and has never meant, absolute free speech.

There are tens and possibly hundreds of exceptions to free speech as demanded by US law, and they are free speech purists.

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