Tragedy of the Commons. Unfettered free speech is incredibly powerful as long as the preponderance of the community respects it and self-polices. But if such a

Tragedy of the Commons. Unfettered free speech is incredibly powerful as long as the preponderance of the community respects it and self-polices. But if such a community grows, over time some selfish actors appear who start gaming the system in a way that makes the community worse for everybody else. That sets up an incentive to either join inthe gaming or leave, and left unchecked, the community devolves into a smaller core of people being awful and everyone else having decamped either to a newer community that hasn’t been spoiled yet, or to a community that has moderation a/k/a censorship. Note that we are having this conversation on a platform that has, from the beginning, chosen to moderate speech.