These are trying times for free speech, partly because social media have disrupted the processes and understandings that make it work.
I think two simple framings I have written about make it easy for people to understand why free speech is so critical to humanity, by shedding new light on how it works, and what is needed to enable it to work properly in the digital era, but is now going missing. I see fixing this as the only way for nations of diverse communities to find a path between tyranny and chaos. Looking forward to added insights from the Summit!
While the framings are simple in themselves, explaining how and why they are essential to reversing the decline in understanding and support for free speech is complex. I plan to write a simple pair of pieces on this soon after the Summit, and have begun a combined working outline, tentatively “Reframing the Future of Free Speech in the Online Era.” (It is still very rough and too long, so I will be working to make it simpler, clearer, and shorter -- and will post a link here when it is published.)
The core ideas can be gleaned from the Key Ideas section at the top of the outline, supplemented by the Conclusions section at the end, as illustrated in these two diagrams:
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