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"

Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act

Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you’ve said something quite wrong about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. I apologize if it feels a bit cold and rude to resp…

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Someone really needs to write a bot whose job is to post a link to that article anytime it sees "Section 230" in a post.

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I'm just 1 "human" sociopath, my job was posting the DuckSauce video every time the Streisand Effect was mentioned because I feel it needs a theme song for greater penetration into the public consciousness.

That and sometimes I enjoy the fractal wrongness some people employ to make themselves looks even dumber than I thought they were to begin with.

<-- not a well person

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If you want the Streisand Effect to become more widely known, the logical course would be to try to get any post that mentions it taken down.
For 10 Years Everyone's Been Using 'The Streisand Effect' Without Paying; Now I'm Going To Start Issuing Takedowns

I have to admit that I had no idea that it had been 10 years since I coined the term “The Streisand Effect” until the SkepticHistory Twitter feed called my attention to it earlier this …

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@mmasnick @That_AC @Pwnallthethings Holy crap! You are even cooler than I thought.

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He even tweeted with Mike Godwin discussing the pitfalls of trying to get paid for making a thing...

(I had a screenshot somewhere)

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you try and keep 80K+ pictures sorted