This was never true. Anyone could stand on the street corner and say anything. Anyone with some spare cash could print up political booklets or flyers and hand them out, and many did.

And you can't do that today?

You can't. Lockdowns.

To be clear, because sports aren't open in most places and a video game streaming website changed their terms of service, there is no longer free speech?

Can you help make sense of your comment, because it seems to be closer to a cult chant than a connected chain of thoughts.

You lost me.

That's a coherent issue if you think that free speech is a purely negative right, which is the traditional liberal position.

However, if you admit this, then you must also admit that Twitch is fully within their rights.

Personally, I believe that the positive right to free speech (subject to exceptions, of course) is much more important, and not up to FAANG to decide.

And when they had internet but before they had it on their phones, you could work around those media companies by saying things online. I believe parent was referring to that period.

And very few people, relatively, were online so you could reach only a small number of people. You can probably still reach just as many people online in unmoderated channels as you could back then.

He did not say "before internet".