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False, you meaning all of us do want a government that takes active measures to prevent weaponized speech. That we don't have a Constitutional framework for d

False, you meaning all of us do want a government that takes active measures to prevent weaponized speech. That we don't have a Constitutional framework for distinguishing this is the same sort of catastrophic zero day in our democracy that the comically shitty second amendment language is. That these are unpatchable is a consequence of and overwhelmingly serves bad actors, specifically, right wing antidemocratic bad faith actors, and operates in no small part over the "free speech" being mechanically reproduced by they and their allies in such lovely institutions as the GRU and other centers of literally anti-American memetic warfare.

analognoise 3y ago
If people are dumb enough to succumb to “memetic warfare” (whatever that is) we deserve to lose. I would rather have the “threat” of having to actually convince people we’re right rather than have the government tell people something can’t be said. That’s far more horrifying. People are allowed to be wrong. They’re people. They disagree. If our society is so weak it crumbles when people hear certain things, it deserves to crumble. I don’t think it is and I don’t think we will, however.