Oh come now, we're all narcissistic and more than occasionally skim back through that 'threads' button, if not to find new posts then to sniff the most beautifu

Oh come now, we're all narcissistic and more than occasionally skim back through that 'threads' button, if not to find new posts then to sniff the most beautiful aroma of our own arses. Yes, freedom of speech has been a fundamental value for centuries, that people have unfortunately come to take for granted. In history all of the great causes you might have felt passionately about were able to openly debated and pursued in no small part because Free Speech. Abolitionism, suffrage, equality issues, and so on could all have, and probably would have, been easily censored in a US without Free Speech. And thanks to the US' historic role in advancing near to all knowledge and technology, these ideals that were able to be fostered and grown, also spread across the globe. The world as we know it today would likely look dramatically different had Free Speech not been enshrined within the US. What you're talking about is something more like the Overton Window [1], which is related, but different. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window