In the last few weeks this has happened speaks volumes about its importance freedom expressionand for understandable reasons: to have freedom to express oneself without fear of reprisal oh sensors This is tested in times of crisis. But where in the world most of our speeches are delivered online, exercising freedom of opinion Can you do the work you normally do?

Perhaps its most ardent defender is Elon MuskCEO of Teslaa, who calls himself a “freedom absolutist.” expression”. But that understanding The importance of this is limited.

“The essence of free speech is, frankly, balance People you hate say things you hate you hate it, Musk said Joe Roganduring his fourth appearance on the podcast the last, special episode Halloween. “Because who is that person? haters can say things you hate, that is That means they can’t stop you from saying it the things you want to say.”

Simple facts about power say that things that go unpunished This is not “the overall meaning of freedom of expression.” Without adequate infrastructure, much to be proud of “marketplace of ideas” does not help us reach truth, but rather becomes becomes a meaningless noise amplifier.

As written by a former judge of the Court UK Supreme Court, Jonathan Suspectour approach to free speech “is still taking shape by attitudes that emerged in (time) illustration”. But we can’t accept it arguments from the 18th century and hope that currently applicable the same way. Our speech is not It happened in a cafe.

Instead, it is done in network socialwhere the algorithm is built in such a way they encourage us to behave like two-dimensional avatars not a real human.