sarah jeong

@sarahjeong: Good piece. I wish I could be as sanguine as you are about the outcome of legislating free speech

@mathewi legislating in which way?

@sarahjeong: I meant the process you described at the end, in which we somehow come up with laws that reconcile free speech, hate crime etc

@mathewi Ah, yeah. It’d be hard but what choice do we have?

@mathewi The alternative is simply allowing this new feudalism to continue, or to segregate the internet by nation-state.

@mathewi I’m definitely not sanguine about the future. I’m just blindly groping towards the best one.

@sarahjeong: I know — me too. I cling to free-speech maximalism, but I know that I am in a privileged position when it comes to that

@mathewi it’s important to remember that free speech in the US is subject to a lot of weird and nonsensical exceptions!

@sarahjeong @mollycrabapple serious question: what would this new "reinvented" free speech look like? One woman's hate speech is another's..

@WeberWest @mollycrabapple plenty of first-world countries recognize hate speech differently from the US and civilization hasn’t collapsed

@WeberWest @mollycrabapple it’s certainly a hard problem but there’s a lot of examples to pore over

@sarahjeong Reddit threats about this post are going to be entertaining, in a car crash kind of way.

@Popehat omg I’m excited actually

@sarahjeong Did you ever think that maybe we take pleasure at the wrong things?

@Popehat lawyers, man

@sarahjeong @Popehat what about us non-lawyers? how did we get into this club?

@sarahjeong Great piece.