It makes a lot more sense if you include the previous tweet as well. > There is this old culture of the internet, roughly Web 1.0 (late 90s) and early Web 2.0,

It makes a lot more sense if you include the previous tweet as well. > There is this old culture of the internet, roughly Web 1.0 (late 90s) and early Web 2.0, pre-Facebook (pre-2005), that had a very strong free speech culture. This person isn't specifically talking about the general American right to free speech, I don't think, rather the libertarian / "Californian ideology" bent of the 90s web and those who were at its forefront.