I think social media platforms are as important as newspapers...not very...and not worth the worry.

Dan

Look at how clean those countries are that have limited 'free speech" & then take a look at those where "free speech" is being used to indoctrinate people & turn them into useless & obese, unkempt tattooed slobs !
Where "free speech" is destroying cultures & environments !

Indy, I can't see the correlation or connection between free speech and any of what you say, especially obesity.
Added to that is your reference to a country being "clean", also attributed, somehow, to free speech.
Can you please elaborate, as your comments do not make sense, as they currently stand.

can't see the correlation or connection between free speech
ALTRAV,
Well, from my perspective it's "free speech" that doesn't permit anyone anymore to tell someone that they are fat, stupid, useless, unpresentable slobs ! That is a massive stumbling block in trying to get society back to a sustainable standard.

Indy, right, gotcha.
Completely agree.
Might I also add the other corrupting medium, which is also infecting society in a most dangerous and sinister way, just as much as the restraining of free speech, and that is Political Correctness.
A most vial and egregious linguistic disease, that if left unchecked or un-challenged, will destroy society and it's ability to function in an honest, truthful and open way.
PC is a language for liars.
The very title tells us that.
If something is correct, it's correct.
Anything other than correct, such as POLITICALY correct, obviously is something other than correct.
This can then be expanded all the way through to eventually mean, A LIE!
And so it is that people have to remain vigilant and discard their lazy notions of "she'll be right mate", and start taking in what is put out there, especially when it involves and affects the people.
They must stop and disseminate, critique, question and asses everything they read, see and hear, especially if it involves people and affects their lives or lifestyle.

ALTRAV,
The sad reality is that many of the brainless wonders who subscribe to the insidious nonsense that is PC is that, so-called "free speech" is ain actual fact more oppressive than anything else !