We all hear things we would not like to hear. We all see things that we may not like to see. The greatest challenge for all of us is to be able to take responsibility for being offended.
On one end of the spectrum there is the bizarre and outrageous. On the other end is something even more discomforting. Control and Manipulation. Media outlets, governments, religious organizations and all the multinational companies that advertise on them are now choosing for us what is correct to say, what is not, what is appropriate and most worrying is how we should think.
Why should anybody tell you how to think? Are you not an adult? Can you not make your own choices? Can you not determine what is right or wrong? Are we a world of overgrown babies who need to be weaned, pruned and adjusted?
Decentralized platforms offer us an opportunity to cement our thoughts in code. Immutable Blockchains that store speech, like this one should keep our freedom of speech actually free.
From a libertarian perspective, the market is always the best decider. If you try to sell pork or alcohol in Saudi Arabia, the market will kill your business by not buying. If you ban alcohol in the United States, you will simply bring rise to a new Bootlegger like it brought us Al-Capone. The market is like an ecosystem, altering it simply does more harm than good. Price ceilings, floors and even state intervention and subsidy simply harm the product more than it helps.
In conclusion, if speech is not popular, it will die a natural death, if there is a market for it, then look at it and figure out, why?
The Ostrich approach of censorship, banning, bot armies, Ivy league academia and mainstream media's self imposed duty of choosing what is good for us, what we should say, who we should vote for or even which sect of which religion we should follow etc ... is not only condescending and lame but will be recorded as the greatest failure of our century.
George Orwell gave us a screen telling us what to think in his book 1984, How right he was. The gestapo would be amazed how much the West has turned their world into the old East.
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