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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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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reminds me of that maxim that goes something like you have to already agree on most things in order to have a disagreement —analogue is you have to already share a large set of values in order for public shaming to work on you
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