The legal system provides the mechanism to address that specific category of speech.

“Defamation is an area of law that provides a civil remedy when someone's words end up causing harm to your reputation or your livelihood. Libel is a written or published defamatory statement, while slander is defamation that is spoken by the defendant.”

I know it does. It was a response to this:

> There is no such thing as almost free speech in a free society except perhaps for clear cut physical threats.

I know you were just joking but I wanted to take it as an opportunity to expand my point. And for record I only have 3k.

If you want free speech you need to learn to live with free speech. That means not believing everything you see, critically thinking, and actually vetting the sources yourself. Its a societal process that plays out over time. The answer is not to have content oligarchs that decide what is truth and can be seen. Statements like this eventually are just seen as noise and ignored as people look for verifiable truth via trusted sources within platforms. In short, it works itself out.

Firstly, thanks for taking my comment in the manner it was intended. I was slightly concerned it might have gone down badly.

I take your point but I think you are brave to rely on the common sense of the entire world to protect you from false or misleading claims against you. Having seen a friend being roasted in the "mainstream media" with a story which was heavily biased against her, and seeing the venomous messages sent to her in the aftermath, I think I'm ok with some limits on free speech.