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"Free speech" as a value is different from free speech protections from government interference. Maybe the former needs a new name...

• Rapzid 8y ago
  Free speech the value is about the government. Free speech is always about the government.
  • tome 8y ago
    Is it? Do you have sources to back that up? In principle it seems like it's a concept that could apply equally to freedom from retribution from one's family/local community/internet service provider.
  • detcader 8y ago
    It's true that some people think this. Other people think the 1st Amendment exists for a reason less simplistic than "a government shouldn't censor people," something to do with a healthy human society: https://theintercept.com/2014/08/21/twitter-facebook-executives-arbiters-see-read/ https://theintercept.com/2014/08/21/twitter-facebook-executi... This is not to argue that the 1st Amendment should compel anything beyond protection from government censorship, but that the value it exists to promote applies to wider situations