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Apart from that you are also free to apply freedom of speech as a principle outside the bounds of the law, like many platforms have done most of the time until advertising got out of hand with privacy violations and content restrictions. Don't know how anyone could support more content restrictions... doesn't seem too bright at all, didn't hear any compelling case and you always have the option to not engage.
Yeah, there are also many workarounds aside from censoring. Such as allowing people to select filters/their own curation algorithm and so on. But it seems to be the European model to censor societally undesirable viewpoints, from my understanding. So free speech from the American perspective does not seem to be a universally held belief. Personally I think it's worth striving for, but providing tools for those who wa…
Europes legislators are prominently very old and their fears are projected on the net.
We had hate speech laws for more than 1.5 centuries and still 2 dictatorships in one century and people still believe the state should regulate content and this power won't be abused. I don't know anymore, hereditary brain damage probably. It fits the definition of insanity too.
I believe we need some form of fisher-price browser that keeps some groups demanding moderation in their own land and completely separate them from those that do not like it. Android- and iPhone-countries, slowly running out of ideas...