I believe the classical meaning of "free speech" as it pertain to government, democracy, and as has roots in Ancient Greece is great. The government shouldn't b

I believe the classical meaning of "free speech" as it pertain to government, democracy, and as has roots in Ancient Greece is great. The government shouldn't be able to restrict the flow of ideas or persecute people for them. I also believe that same meaning of "free speech", that binding of the government, can't also be applied to private citizens and entities. That's a paradox; you inhibit their free speech by trying to force them to be a party to others speech. I believe in very, very narrow exceptions to the above in the vein of what we currently have. I also believe private citizens and entities being able to decide collectively on what is and isn't acceptable and not giving quarter to what they deem as bad actors is.. Both good and a type of free speech. It's not perfect, and we don't always agree with it, but it seems that over time we've been living in more and more liberal, socially, times while government has become EVEN MORE tied on the subject of free speech(Larry Flint? etc). I believe it's also okay, even though I don't necessarily agree, to think we should do nothing within the public to restrict or discount others speech and opinions. But then, I'm also betting on society working that out on its own based on the above :)