My fear about all of these calls to police speech on social networks is that eventually people will call for the same to be applied everywhere on the Internet.

My fear about all of these calls to police speech on social networks is that eventually people will call for the same to be applied everywhere on the Internet. I realize that the major difference is how easy it is for someone to have an audience on FB/Twitter vs. Running their own blog. But there’s no real barrier to someone we might not agree with to build that audience outside those platforms too.