1/ Here's today's civics lesson in "free-speech": EVERY tyrant who has suppressed speech as done so according to clear, unbiased rules -- that they just came up with at that moment.
2/ The only thing that proves your credentials for "defending free-speech" is when you defend the principle for speech you don't like.
The ACLU defended the right of neoNazis to march in Skokie, thus proving their "free-speech" credentials.
3/ Musk is creating more and more reasons to censor speech he doesn't like. They are all explained as "I support free-speech, but this specific thing isn't free-speech, like assassination coordinates".
4/ It's like China and Putin. Their constitutional protections for free-speech are just as strong as ours -- yet, a ton of dissidents are in jail, such as for "spreading lies about our military in Ukraine".
@ErrataRob You might be amused by a joke from the times of the People's Republic of Poland. The joke explained that the difference regarding freedom of speech between Poland and e.g. US is that Poland has freedom of speech, but US has freedom after speech.
