The core Enlightenment principle supporting free speech is that the best counter to a bad idea is a good idea, with both openly expressible and debatable. This stabilizes society by making everyone think and engage. To censor is to divide and polarize.
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Or a social media mogul using their power to suppress ideas they disagree with.
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In many cases it's not just "ideas they disagree with" though, when some people are being shut down for using their platform to actively spread lies about people, that then inevitably lead to large numbers of people threatening them with violence
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Who has more power than whom, here?
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For reference the elite journalist in question has 1000 followers on twitter and a blog.
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