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There IS one aspect of free speech that has changed: there used to be a fairly broad de facto freedom from consequences because few people heard most things. Now you're exposed to a lot more "perfectly legal" consequences like a social death lynching.
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In the past, if you said one objectionable thing in a bar to somebody you'd have to perhaps fight off 1 guy trying to punch you. Or you and your 3 buddies would get in a barfight with him and his 3 buddies. Now you might draw 100s with e-pitchforks.
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This means you have to watch what you say in cheap-distribution environments a lot more. Is this an unreasonable imposition? I don't think so. You can still retreat to low-distribution environments like drinks with friends or even email.
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one caveat: the people who do the most content policing concentrate on those who are only merely "problematic", while the ones who are actually dangerous neither get very much censure nor would care much even if they did
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indeed; otherwise well-meaning person utters utterance X which *may* be construed by some as offensive and gets shouted down as a bigot (which they aren't), meanwhile actual bigots proudly eliminate all ambiguity about their utterances and don't pay for it one jot
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