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"It’s the collision between: The Enlightenment principle Truth should be free

and

the modern legal/ethical principle Truth must be constrained if it harms"

The Enlightenment had principles? What are your sources on this? Could you, for example, anchor this in Was ist Aufklärung?

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> The Enlightenment had principles?

Yes it did.

Its core principles were: reason & rationality, empiricism & scientific method, individual liberty, skepticism of authority, progress, religious tolerane, social contract, unversal human nature.

The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement in Europe, with influence in America, during the 17th and 18th centurues.

This said, the enlightenment was a movement, not a corporation. We should not, and should never expect corporations to be enlightened.

Well said!

I don't think so. Do you consider Kant to have been an empiricist?

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