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This is really important. There's a tendency to conflate 'free speech' with 'uncurated speech' but they're different. Social signalling is how we avoid having to criminalise and enforce many difficult to define but terrible behaviours. The choices reputable institutions make shape that signal.

I take it you’ve never hung around anywhere in SW Florida where virtually everyone thinks they’re the embodiment of a lovable Archie Bunker, blathering bigoted views loudly everywhere from Publix to early bird specials at the VFW

I guess that's my point though! The laws around hate-speech in SW Florida are pretty similar to those in Miami, but you don't hear the same kind of stuff delivered full-throatedly, right? The social signal is different.