How free is speech when the only medium allowed is concurrent shouting? After all the attempts by governments to disorganize citizens through censorship and outright internet blockages, I almost can't think of a better approach than to simply make platforms so drowned in chaos as to be unusable.
> I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.
Hacker News is welcome to continue editorializing its content, of course; it just has to accept liability for it.