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[Mav]

AGAIN, who is the final arbiter on that?  Just subjective.  And we see growing censorship everywhere, especially from governments, something I passionately hate regardless of left or right.  Like it or not, you CANNOT control thought.  And no, I don't use social media

As noted in my last post, free speech doesn't mean there are no consequences. It's hard to sue an anonymous poster for defamation, but if you can identify the poster then that's a different matter. Up in Sydney, a cosmetic surgeon has been awarded $450,000 in damages against another cosmetic surgeon who posted false bad reviews while posing as a dissatisfied customer.

If Musk does bring in a requirement that users authenticate their identities, that will be a pretty major curb on "free speech". It will also mean dissent in more brutal political systems will be much more dangerous.

If we want to allow anonymous posting and shield those users from any blowback for their online behaviour, there needs to be some way of limiting the malicious falsehoods.