There's been a lot of talk about free speech on social media. A lot of it is bad faith political talk, but still, there is a lot of scrutiny of free speech on s

There's been a lot of talk about free speech on social media. A lot of it is bad faith political talk, but still, there is a lot of scrutiny of free speech on social media. Rightfully so, it's important for people to be able to speak in the modern "town square", but it's also important for people to run their own websites how they please. We're targeting the wrong layer with our concerns about free speech. We should regulate hosting providers and enforce free speech on hosting providers, not on social media websites. People should have a right to host their content somewhere, but not the right to violate Twitter's ToS. Unfortunately, relatively nobody cares about hosting. If Twitter bans a journalist people get upset, if Netlify caves to a slight bit of pressure takes a journalist's website down, nobody cares.