Shannon:
Do you think keyboard warriors should be arrested?
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I don't know what a keyboard warrior is. I've never heard of that term. I suppose it's someone who chronically sits behind a computer keyboard and advocates for some particular cause, but I don't know what types of causes are typically associated with the term.

But regardless of what causes we're talking about, no. Freedom of speech should be a fundamental right. Anything else is oppressive and totalitarian, to say nothing of the fact that whatever ideology the government or the majority upholds, against whatever other ideology, isn't necessarily wise, beneficial, correct, informed, reasoned or reasonable, free of bias, or even sane, and this is why freedom of speech is necessary for social progress.

It's true that some free speech is genuinely and perhaps acutely destructive, particularly hate speech, but whether or not we should prevent hate speech ideally, we shouldn't really do it in the real world, because in the real world, as long as the law or company policy allows itself to encroach on any free speech at all, it'll eventually overstep its bounds, or at least it won't be perfectly wise and right, and could even be treacherously wrong, about what it thinks is right or wrong speech. It may even abuse the law or policy and manipulate public opinion by labeling whatever it doesn't like as "hate speech" or whatever other thing it officially disallows or incriminates. This is actually happening already.

On the other hand, and maybe I contradict myself, I must admit that I do appreciate filtering out misinformation that deleteriously and dangerously influences public opinion, mostly regarding politics. Or not even necessarily filtering it out, but at least doing something like adding "community notes" to the posts correcting the misinformation like Twitter does. I know some people complain that whoever decides what is misinformation or not may be wrong or biased, but in my experience it seems to be reasonable/fair and objective/more informed.

I also appreciate when social platforms use The Algorithm to give more Democratic/liberal views more publicity and lessen the publicity of more Republican/conservative views. This probably isn't technically a violation of free speech--it's not like it's deleting conservative posts--but it does seem to go against the spirit of what I said above about free speech. But it's just so sad, depressing and angering to see the popularity and subsequent effects of selfish, narrowminded/moralistic, dumb, religious, rash, egoistic/hyperindividualistic, misinformed and deluded and prone to conspiracy theorization, cultish, full of conviction (even to the point of deliberately undermining democracy, such as by gerrymandering, voter suppression laws and the pettiness of the GOP in congress purposely making the Democrats look bad by blocking all their efforts whether the GOP actually agrees with them or not), regressive, libertarian/anti-regulatory, anti-welfare and anti-social services, wealth-imbalance-enabling, unempathetic/discompassionate, antisocial, discriminatory (sexist, racist, xenophobic, homophobic), nationalistic/Jingoistic conservative ideology/psychology. In fact, the fate of the world and the survival of humanity and the rest of the biosphere depends on defeating conservative ideology, because it's anti-environmentalist.

That being said, I don't universally, conformistically agree with all Democratic/liberal ideology, because I'm an independent thinker. For example, I'm pro-life or at least ambivalent on the matter, and I hate wokism/PC culture (or at least certain aspects of it, such as cancel culture; word policing; interpreting totally innocuous things as racist, sexist, etc.; forcing inappropriate or disproportionate representation of other ethnicities, sexual orientations, etc. in media; and the Academy Award committee awarding films based on a checklist of woke elements they contain rather than by actual quality), I believe there are two genders, I'm a gender essentialist, and I don't believe it's possible to change one's sex. But the conservative ideology is overall so much worse that it's worth siding with the Democrats, as to some degree/in some contexts you basically have no choice but to side with one or the other party wholesale.