Tom Ritchford
1 min readApr 11, 2022

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You just repeated what you said again. You didn't address my argument at all.

It seems your stance is this: Twitter must broadcast anything any leader of any country says under any circumstances.

So what you want is that no matter how provably false, threatening, abusive, or obscene it is, whether or not it calls for violence against a group or against specific individuals, the private company Twitter should be forced to carry every communication of every world leader. Or is it just the US?

You have this religious idea that only some subset of Americans seem to have - that speech is incredibly valuable, even if it's deliberately harmful lies or incitement to violence, and that private organizations should be forced to carry all speech, no matter how repugnant and mendacious it is.

Lucky, the Constitution will forever prevent this dream of a state-controlled media.

And no, I don't believe your claim that you have some sort of magical insight into the minds of world leaders. World leaders universally considered Trump an inept buffoon and probably laughed when he got thrown off Twitter.

Free speech is not a god. It is a societal good that needs to be balanced with other societal benefits. And whether speech is true or not is important.

This idea that you have, that the truth or falsehood of speech does not reflect on its value -- this is a bad idea with no moral or ethical or philosophical underpinnings, an idea that has been wildly destructive to your society and continues to deliver its poisonous fruit every single day.

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