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They’re not, they come in opposition to each other so the more you value one aspect the weaker the other becomes.

I don’t know how people who describe themselves as free speech absolutists and claim no one will be censored are even given the time of day when they simultaneously discuss enforcement policies.

We already have and had multiple sites for absolute free speech short of actual government intervention on the internet. They are either small(the various chans) or go out of business(voat and the like) because no advertiser wants to associate with the content that is created, and free speech absolutists only appear to value free speech as long as someone else is covering the costs for propagating said speech.



> people who describe themselves as free speech absolutists

Are there actually people like that? Whenever I see this phrase it's used to vaguely describe some group that's obviously in the wrong.


Musk specifically has described himself as one several times. On a less public note, I run into people online describing themselves as such fairly frequently as well




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