A good read by Allen Farrington and Preston Byrne, Americans who were in the UK during the protests.
It gives a lot of credit to Elon Musk and X, perhaps more some on here are comfortable with, but it concludes that the future of free speech is decentralized and mentions nostr.
Democracy is meaningless if you’re not allowed to offend the state.
The state is at existential odds with the internet, terrified of regular people communicating beyond its control. It’s been drunk on the power afforded by the centralizing tendencies of radio and television, where communication flows in one direction only. And, in its final throes, the state’s response is to lash out with decreasing coherence, but increasing aggression, as the balance of power flows back to individuals.
Today’s statist propaganda, which holds a monopoly on conversation seemingly everywhere except X, wants to convince you free speech is the aberration, and narrative control is the norm. But technologically-based narrative control is, in the first place and in the broad sweep of recent history, the aberration. Free speech is a philosophical primitive worth fighting for, and we seem to be in the early innings of a return to a saner, safer, and freer paradigm.