So, let's see. On one side, we've got all of the political, legal, and business bodies in the existence of man - oh, and religious ones, too.
On the other side, we've got some narcissistic NEETs that all-too-often draw income purely from SSI/SSD equivalents.
Real motley crew, those free speech absolutists. Invaluable to any truly enlightened, euphoric discourse.
I'm sure you'll get there one day, arguing there should be no recourse for sending a bomb threat to a hospital. There wasn't a bomb, officers, so you got PRANKED.
Oh, wait, advocating and trying to change the world is dumb so that's not the plan, so you're... talking to fill up some bytes? You would be a much less depressing person if you were a poe.
Some countries have speech codes which would get in the way of you saying niggerfaggot by getting the popo on your ass.
But even those countries which have had the most robust and the most pliant free speech provisions, like the US, have never once allowed you to make genuine or seemingly genuine terroristic or violent threats without rebuke.
The limits of free speech, to any body that matters and to any person that matters, have never stretched into allowing overt threats and calls to violence.
If someone banning you from twitter for saying niggerfaggot makes you think "we should be allowed to threaten to shoot up schools," you are retarded, should get a job, and should probably move out of the basement.
Arguing against "hurting feelings = literal violence" is the whole point of arguing in favor of free speech - the two aren't synonymous.
Arguing that calls to literal violence are the same as hurt feelings is just flipping around the equals sign: "literal violence = hurting feelings"
"But they did it first!" is a legal strategy that doesn't work very well.
"Well why are they allowed to get away with it?" Because they haven't eroded the fundamental bedrock, and most of those restrictions are accepted and even desired by people using those platforms and living in those cities. This is why conservatives and liberals are segregating. Yet the proof in the pudding that the bedrock is still intact is this very site - the bedrock never included fedposting.
It really is not hard to grasp that Null is totally fine with the widest interpretation of Free Speech that has ever functionally existed on the planet earth in a meaningful way, and still exists (so long as 230 does) in US jurisdiction. The whole "threatening to shoot up mental wards should be a-ok" side of things hasn't ever been what he's veered towards or wanted to cultivate.
