The point is that the principle of free speech is far more important than any topic of the day. Enemy of my enemy situation. Everything bad in politics has com

The point is that the principle of free speech is far more important than any topic of the day. Enemy of my enemy situation. Everything bad in politics has come from the downward cycle of political parties censoring each other. It takes a lot of courage because the defenders of free speech, to also defend the right for those to campaign for the destruction of free speech. Things become really bad when exceptions are made to restrict the free speech of those campaigning against it. You can see how easily people can fall into the trap though, because humans can only take so much abuse while being attacked by people they are inadvertently helping. Now that Musk is in charge of Twitter, you start to see them take more interest in free speech and the importance of it. > his forbidding of speech in schools Garcetti 2006 - legal free speech only applies to private citizens not public employees. The will of the people of the state should democratically determine what should be taught and what should not. If creationism was to be taught in schools, I would certainly want the right as a private citizen to campaign against my children having to listen to that crap, without being impeded by "free speech" (a good way to evaluate free speech is to think about things you agree with and disagree with and see if you are happy with the law both cases). > DeSantis approach to Disney This is a interesting case indeed. Hacker News at its best when I have an excuse to dive into a case I'm not familiar with. Personally, I think their speech is not being restricted by the new law. And the law is the will of the people. As a voting citizen, would I really want to be denied being able to enact a law because a company complains about it's free speech rights? Probably not. I don't relate as much to a corporation than I do to an actual person - regardless of what the law says. The retaliatory aspect is interesting though - and I would defer to the supreme court for this.