I've gotten a lot of responses to that Substack piece about leaving Twitter. Many are positive but some are negative. A few are saying "oh so you think free speech is nasty?"

What kind of stupid question is that? Of course I do. The Nazis marching at Skokie were nasty. All sorts of speech is nasty. Supporting free speech doesn't mean reserving judgment about it, you imbecile. It means not using the state to suppress it.

@Popehat have you ever come across any reason - other than stupidity or bad faith - for people being 'confused' between freedom of speech (from government interference) and.. I guess freedom from consequences (from literally everyone/everywhere else)?
@interpipes @Popehat I'd say money. Definitely way too much money. Elon, remember, was born rich.

@interpipes @Popehat white supremacy.

That's the only reason I've come across.