Excellent Tweets from Paul Graham:

Thus, we should guard the right to free speech like we should guard (though we often don’t) against restraining competition. Everyone is free to speech and to be heard it is not often easy. The temptation is to gag the competition rather than to prevail on the merits in the marketplace of ideas. Putting undue pressure on an organization to fire someone from their job to deplatform them is not having one’s ideas prevail in the marketplace of ideas. The only type of fair fight is ideas versus ideas, and these days anyone with a computer and an internet connection has a right to compete.