OK, so where is your "red line"?

What forms of censorship do you accept?

Most people start with child porn.

Very few First Amendment Absolutists want to argue that child porn should be allowed. Even if for some people it's "artistic expression".

How about "murder porn"?

There are people who really get off watching other people be killed. Why should they be discriminated against by the "mainstream" culture's judgemental views.

Actual rape videos are also very popular.

Surprisingly, a lot of real rapists video their assaults these days. They like to replay them and they like to share them with the "rapist community".

Do you want to argue for their "right to free speech"?

I know that right now you are saying, "sure, with reductio ad absurdum examples you can make any idea look bad". However, you would be in error if you think my examples are absurd exaggerations.

A few years ago, after reading about the suicide rate of content moderators, I signed up for a three month gig of just that. All of my examples are from content that flowed past my screen during those three months.

The dark half of the internet is a sewer. Do you want to argue that it be brought into the light?

I am not a First Amendment Absolutist. I think there should be gatekeepers. Or at the very least, clear rules about what is and what is not going to be allowed.

Conservatives piss and moan about "Cancel Culture". I think it's hilarious. The unselfaware hypocrisy of it is so blatant.

Do you know what Cancel Culture actually represents?

It's the majority of people saying "we don't like you and so we choose to remove your message from our attention". When that happens, the "Market" decides that your show, or movie, or column, or whatever is cancelled because the majority of the culture rejects it.

Right now Conservatives don't want "Free Speech". What they want, is the power to force all of us to have to listen to their speech first.

They cannot accept that the reason they aren't on the first Google search page is that people don't want to hear what they have to say. It must be discrimination against "Conservative Values" in the algo by the evil tech company.

The delusion of zealots and cultists is always that they are being persecuted because no wants to listen to them.