@ArdainianRight I feel like free speech in general is like Roman ruins. It's still around, we still use it, but it's a product of an erased people and any maintenance will be in the direction of changing it drastically. What gave me this thought specifically is someone's proposal to burn the Koran to own the libs: that's not going to own the libs, that's going to lead to blasphemy laws, because the only defenders of free speech permitted in the public square are those who already support blasphemy laws for issues like the Holocaust, FBI stats, etc.
The open internet and its protocols are another Roman ruin. Anyone can escape from social media hell to post their own content on their own website? Not until
1. you gets DDOSed
2. cloudflare refuses to protect you
3. the EFF refuses to call cloudflare out on not protecting you
4. all other DDOS mitigators do likewise
5. if your datacenter doesn't kick you, your datacenter's peers do
6. if you flee to tor or similar, the devs start updating the relays to fight you