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Honestly, the best way any opponent of free speech could convince any proponent of free speech is by giving them administrative power over a fractious, opinionated community whose members' well-beings are important to them, and seeing what sorts of norms and rules they develop.
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been there done that, I came out more pro-free-speech on the other side (caveat: we totally evolved rules that looked arbitrary from the outside, but they weren't that aligned with political correctness)
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So yeah I'm not a proponent of total free speech inside communities (I know enough such communities and they're nasty) but imo communities should have near-total freedom wrt where they put their overton windows
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