Nah, fuck that. "Be a free speech platform" means nothing by itself. It's a sentence without meaning. It communicates no ideas – because we all already like th

Nah, fuck that. "Be a free speech platform" means nothing by itself. It's a sentence without meaning. It communicates no ideas – because we all already like the idea of free speech, and the challenge is to understand what that means in a modern context. (Of course, underneath all that, it's a dogwhistle. We all know what "free speech platform" means, because it's what Parler called itself. I'm doing the parent the justice of assuming they weren't deliberately using a tired dogwhistle phrase.)