Is There a Moderation Policy for Free Speech?

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If moderation were easy, someone would have figured it out by now. I don't see how you don't always have enormous numbers of dis fied people in the wake of even the wisest moderation policy. There are still going to be people trying to figure out where the edge cases are and what to do about them. Do i want somebody who has an opinion that is not shared widely by the woke mob doxed by that mob and hunted as an apostate out in the real world because of what happened to them on twitter? Of course not. So i think the right and the left have much of this wrong. It's a harrd problem to solve, and there

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