I'm one of those who likes to bring out the "fire in a theater" or doxxing as the counterexample to disprove literally nobody is a free speech absolutist. This on top of it not being a 1A issue anyway because the first five words are "Congress shall pass no law".
But spam is a better way to approach this and show it really isn't a content problem but a user behaviour problem. Because that's really it.
Another way to put this is that the total experience matters, meaning the experience of all users: content creators, lurkers and advertisers. Someone could go into an AA meeting and not shut up about scientology or coal power and you'll get kicked out. Not because your free speech is being violated but because you're annoying and you're worsening the experience of everyone else you come in contact with.
Let me put it another way: just because you have a "right" to say something doesn't mean other people should be forced to hear it. That platform has a greater responsibility that your personal interests and that's about behaviour (as the article notes), not content.
I'm one of those who likes to bring out the "fire in a theater" or doxxing as the counterexample to disprove literally nobody is a free speech absolutist. This on top of it not being a 1A issue anyway because the first five words are "Congress shall pass no law".
But spam is a better way to approach this and show it really isn't a content problem but a user behaviour problem. Because that's really it.
Another way to put this is that the total experience matters, meaning the experience of all users: content creators, lurkers and advertisers. Someone could go into an AA meeting and not shut up about scientology or coal power and you'll get kicked out. Not because your free speech is being violated but because you're annoying and you're worsening the experience of everyone else you come in contact with.
Let me put it another way: just because you have a "right" to say something doesn't mean other people should be forced to hear it. That platform has a greater responsibility that your personal interests and that's about behaviour (as the article notes), not content.
As this thread notes, this is results-oriented.