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You can say what you want but you don’t get to hide behind “free speech” when the consequences start knocking
And not all consequences are legal. Human beings are social animals and consequences have always existed for violating common norms and taboos. Go into a synagogue and start handing out copies of Mein Kampf and see what happens.
What about if I lie about my product and you use it and it fails to deliver, or causes you direct harm? Should I be allowed to do that?
Consequences for free speech == not free speech.
In the USA there's some extremely limited exceptions and those are the only places consequences can be had.
What about if I lie about my product and you use it and it fails to deliver, or causes you direct harm? Should I be allowed to do that?
Or I start going off about some crazy racist or other bullshit should you be forced to platform/employ/listen to me?
Even so, social media companies kicking you off is way different than the government seizing your social media accounts, the latter which is being asked here.
A mafia boss ordering people around has nothing to do with free speech. When you say 'all $GROUPs should be killed' jokingly in some discussion you're using free speech. If you say the same in front of an armed mob in pursuit of a host of $GROUPs who then proceeds to kill all $GROUPs you gave an order to do so.
I get private companies and people doing whatever they want, but this just feels like a subversion of the original intent.
But no, speech isn't entirely free then. That's not a bad thing.