> we are losing sight of why freedom of speech is important which is insane to me.

I'm with you. Its very difficult to find people like you who think practically and consider side-effects, etc.

I'm curious as to whether this has changed over time. And how could the founding fathers have such foresight.

Where have all the thinkers gone?

They learned to self censor, lest they be shouted down and branded for heresy by the left wing ideologues with an axe to grind.

...or be branded as "brain-washed" dupes of lame-stream media by right wing ideologues with a meme-generator.

everyone's shouting past each other.

There is no symmetry here. The left has captured most education, media and government organizations.

> Where have all the thinkers gone?

Isn't it obvious? They've been censored. Matt Lauer can't even ask legitimate questions about Clinton's private email server without being publicly censured for being a "bad" journalist.

What a joke.

There are plenty of other websites that host neo-Nazi hate speech though, it's not like the "alt-right" have no outlet for their ideas.

Twitter is under no obligation to partake in this too.

"Let them naturally learn it is bad themselves."

For those readers of such material who are rational critical thinkers, then yes they will see it as bad for themselves and it will leave a bad taste in their mouths, and it will also waste their time

For those with irrational hateful right-wing ideology, it will reinforce their existing miserable attitudes

I agree that censorship is bad. But all publications select their messages. For example, scientific publications don't publish articles on homeopathy or communication with the dead. Are they censoring such material ? Shouldn't they be committed to fair and balanced presentation of ideas ? Aren't they _biased_ towards genuine evidence-based science ?

The reason scientific publications select real science rather than crank bullshit, is that their readers are trying to get real work done, and they rely on peer-review to filter the shit

You have to filter-out the noise in any communication channel. The problem we have with FB & Twitter is that the low signal-to-noise ratio is impeding our decision-making processes

there is censorship everywhere...they select only what they agree with and ignore what they don't understand even if there is an explanation for it...why is no one investigating this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqQrT84kjc4