>Regardless of whether the First Amendment legally compels it, I don't think that a healthy democracy can exist in a society that doesn't have tolerance for unp

>Regardless of whether the First Amendment legally compels it, I don't think that a healthy democracy can exist in a society that doesn't have tolerance for unpopular speech. Society should tolerate it in terms of not throwing people in jail for speech. We have to remember, though, that if we want a marketplace of ideas, we have to let the marketplace do its thing. If the vast majority of people don't like your speech, you may be relegated to the grimy back-quarters of the internet, just as cranks and racists in the past were relegated to shitty newsletters and HTML pages. This is part of how healthy discourse happens in society. If society can't push out shitty/toxic/dumb ideas from our discourse, we'll just be recycling the same nonsense over and over again and never make progress solving real problems.