The number of real rape and death threats is miniscule. Of the millions of times someone has received a comment they considered a threat, how many times has something happened in the real world? Your odds of being killed by a meteorite are better. There's no reason to take that kind of stuff seriously unless there's specificity involved.

There's a cottage industry of throwing rhetorical bombs and trolling 4chan in order to get threats. The people complaining the loudest about threats are reluctant to actually get the police involved, and they never stop trolling because they realize the threats aren't real.

tldr: Internet threats are no reason to even consider curtailing free speech.

There is a difference between the two. Getting doxxed is caused by social regulation going awry. Getting removed by a company is that company controlling the narrative. Neither is good, but one still allows for the freedom of expression.

I'm sorry but I fail to see a difference between the two. In either case users are leaving/avoiding a platform due to abuse and this free speech on the platform is lessened (except, of course, for the harassers).

"You will be judged by the company you keep" is starting to bite these platforms, and they're trying to do something about it.

>If tons of people are self-censoring or avoiding speaking at all for fear of being doxxed and getting death or rape threats, do we really have free speech?

Yes we do. If you self-censor because you are afraid of the consequences of your speech, that makes you a coward. Far better for cowards to cower in fear silently then for everyone to be forcibly silenced to placate cowardice.

So if you think a movie is good, but you're afraid to post that because there are people making death threats to people posting the "wrong" opinion then you're in the wrong for being a coward?

Because banning death threats is forcibly silencing people?

Please tell me I'll reading that wrong.

>So if you think a movie is good, but YOU'RE AFRAID to post that because there are people making death threats to people posting the "wrong" opinion then you're in the wrong for being a coward?

You answered your own question. Its already a crime to make death threats. If you are afraid to speak your mind or otherwise do what you think is right because you are afraid of the consequences, whether they be crimes or not, you are a coward.