The whole debate over free speech and moderation really always just comes down to "what are the rules, who sets them, and enforces them". Everything else is always just instrumental to that question.

All other debates are just special cases of it.

The 1A debates are hyper-legalized proxies for it, either arguing (correctly) that 1A means the rules can't be enforced by the government, or railing against that (usually, but not always based on the expectation the govt would side with your view)

The 230 debates are a (usually poorly informed) hyper-legalized instrumentation to that.

The shadowban/algorithm debates is -- "who sets the algorithm?" as a proxy for "who sets the rules / decides"

But about 99% of all of the different variants of the debates come down to "who sets the rules, and who enforces them".

Note also that nobody serious argues that *nobody* should set the rules or enforce them; even free-speech absolutists don't go that far.

It's just always the question of *who*.

@Pwnallthethings Curse my organic brain and its pattern-matching reflex, -- it just threw up a couple of lines from a cheesily portentous (very early - first album, 1969) King Crimson song. "Knowledge is a deadly friend/ when no-one sets the rules / The fate of all mankind, I see / is in the hands of fools".

(If you think that's portentous, try the rest of the song -- those who like their excellent Fripp guitar with heavy side-orders of mellotron and rolling timpani (and really quite awful Pete Sinfield lyrics): https://youtu.be/vXrpFxHfppI

King Crimson - Epitaph (Including "March For No Reason" and "Tomorrow And Tomorrow")

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