↪ Replying to @normative.bsky.social
In the "marketplace of ideas," the only cure for bad speech is more speech.
Another classical liberal fallacy.
Something similar goes for the party system: we shredded the gatekeeping machinery that had historically kept quite a few populist demagogues off major party tickets.
I’ve been convinced for some time that that social media is the taproot of the madness that has slowly consumed our politics.
Traditional media was full of gates - some editorial, some practical, some economic - that prevented ideas from spreading freely. Social media has few, close to none.