Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
I just watched it, in its entirety.  Some quotes that stuck with me:<p><pre><code>  Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach.
  There is such a thing as objective truth.
  They could fix these problems, if they wanted to.
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I&#x27;ve said this before, but we need the government to step in and provide a &quot;free speech&quot; public platform for people to say whatever they&#x27;d like, uncensored.  The new public space is the internet, but currently it is only managed by private entities.  We need to carve out a government-protected space if free speech is going to survive online.  It&#x27;s clear we can&#x27;t depend on private businesses to do it.<p>Half of the arguments I see that are pro private-platform censorship revolve around the idea that &quot;private businesses can censor who they want.&quot;  Fine, that&#x27;s fair.  If you believe that, then also you shouldn&#x27;t have any problem with a <i>public</i> space online being <i>uncensorable.</i>  But pro-censorship people will have a problem, because that&#x27;s the true issue, isn&#x27;t it?  What they really want to stop is the spreading of ideas that they cannot control.  People arguing for pro-censorship under the facade of supporting the rights of private businesses are only doing it because it&#x27;s a convenient tool.  Take that out of the equation and you&#x27;ll see that it&#x27;s not about the rights of private businesses at all.  But we need that public space online and we need it fast.