Steve Randy Waldman on Nostr: traditionally we regulated free speech by eschewing prior restraint but using torts ...
traditionally we regulated free speech by eschewing prior restraint but using torts and the judicial system to impose some accountability ex post.
it was a good balance! lawsuits are risky and costly so you could speak pretty freely, but outrageous threat and defamation were deterred. 1/
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