sarah jeong

@mathewi reconfiguring it doesn’t mean it’ll actually shrink

@sarahjeong: I know — I just think some of the conflicts you describe are almost impossible to reconcile (hate speech, etc.)

@mathewi I’m not sure about that, see e.g. Katherine Sullivan’s great law review article: http://harvardlawreview.org/2010/11/two-concepts-of-freedom-of-speech/ …

@mathewi The R.A.V. v. St. Paul treatment of hate speech is part of disagreement on the conception of free speech

@mathewi the more accepted conception today is the libertarian one (R.A.V., Citizens United) but there’s multiple lenses to use here

@sarahjeong: My default position is the libertarian one -- and I become more committed to it when I see how the UK and other handle it

@mathewi Yeah not a fan of the UK but that’s, like, a clusterfuck of lots of other things too

@sarahjeong: alas, it's clusterfucks all the way down :-)