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I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time *talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this* which WAS NOT ZUCK.

Anyhoo, he kicks it off with a very bad misunderstanding of the 1st Amendment and the whole "fire in a crowded theater" thing. cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social @jkosseff.bsky.social Not only is this wrong, it's meaningless. He runs a private platform and isn't Congress. Does he not have ANY 1A lawyers?

Free speech isn't limited to the 1st Amendment, but yeah they don't understand it regardless.

Our free speech legal rights and limitations in the USA are pretty much defined by the 1st amendment.

Free speech is a concept, it's not defined by one particular country's legal system. The 1st Amendment is a legal code that serves free speech by limiting what the government is allowed do to infringe it, but it doesn't define the concept.

Free speech doesn't apply to a private company versus a private citizen, up to the company to moderate or not

That was my point.