Excellent point. We have a tech problem that is orthogonal to the free speech issue. It's making things worse, yet the principles of free speech don't go anywh

Excellent point. We have a tech problem that is orthogonal to the free speech issue. It's making things worse, yet the principles of free speech don't go anywhere simply because other problems have arisen. Up until a decade or two ago, everybody spoke and everybody spent most of their time not listening to one another. Instead we did other things. Today, however, we carry these wondrous little devices in our pockets which connect us to every angry person and demagogue all over the world. We can find and associate with people who believe some really eccentric things we also believe. We can spend our free time encouraging one another to become more and more radical. I didn't comment in order to go down this path, but your point is valid. Unfortunately, speech is not the only thing under attack. Pervasive tech has changed much of the definition of what it means to be human. That's a much more involved subject (!) that seems a bit OT for now. But I agree.