Free speech can cause unfree speech, just as free markets can cause unfree markets. An insightful thread:https://twitter.com/M_Methuselah/status/1024000183682707459 …
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Imagine the world was ruled by a majority of ultra-leftists who were free to say stuff that would ruin your career if you exercised the freedom to say what you wanted. Their word vs yours. This would technically be a free market of ideas. But it wouldn't really be free, would it?
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Because their free speech would be worth much more than yours, to the point that it would tyrannise you.
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But that's not even close to the reality, though, is it? Note that you said *should feasibly be able to*, not *can*. And anyway, combating a mob by forming a bigger mob just amounts to mob rule, which is inimical to freedom.
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