There are people right now going, "Hey, is it really worth giving up freedom in exchange for not having me make your life online hell?"
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"Sure, I can call you a bitch and a slut and a hundred racial slurs, but you're free to say anything I can't terrify you out of saying."
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People who have never felt safe enough to be free to speak their minds are forever at the mercy of those who feel secure saying anything.
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People who want to make every site their platform and every user their audience think everyone else should be their "free speech" ally.
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But the person who thinks every doorknob is an invitation is a passionate if inadvertent advocate for locks.
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And if your choice is between no locks or overly restrictive locks... well, it all hinges on how dire the situation is, doesn't it?
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If you want the internet to remain free of locks, you have to treat it like the kind of community where nobody has to lock their door.
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The more you barge into other people's spaces to insist that your freedom of speech means you get to do so, the less they'll care about it.
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The less you respect social boundaries for social reasons, the more people will have to resort to technical and legal boundaries.
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So far a basic rule of the internet has been that communities get defined by their worst members.
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Communities that tolerate sexism, white supremacy, rape culture, et cetera, push out the people who don't tolerate those things.
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Communities that have little or no moderation are ceded to the worst elements almost automatically (see: news site comments).
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