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Let's start with the definiton from Encyclopedia Britannica:

freedom of speech, right, as stated in the 1st and 14th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, to express information, ideas, and opinions free of government restrictions based on content. A modern legal test of the legitimacy of proposed restrictions on freedom of speech was stated in the opinion by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in Schenk v. U.S. (1919): a restriction is legitimate only if the speech in question poses a clear and present dangeri.e., a risk or threat to safety or to other public interests that is serious and imminent. Many cases involving freedom of speech and of the press also have concerned defamation, obscenity, and prior restraint (see Pentagon Papers). See also censorship.

My view:
As someone from western Europe, who time and again proves to be clueless in American politics, I find it very amusing how in this twitter stuff a lot of people have went from "taking away my freedom of speech, booh!" to "that's good cencorship, yay!" in just a matter of months. And don't get me wrong, it's the other way too: "that's what you get from being on the wrong side of history, yay" to "why is my world view being censored, booh!"

I do feel the people who complains about censorship from a private companies and people is just ... wrong, though. Cancel culture is basically just market forces that some people don't like. That being said: Let's listen to George Carling for a minute. A bonus star for anyone who can show me a comedian who is close to his level (in my view - not interested in online rankings or whatever)

https://youtu.be/07w9K2XR3f0

EDIT: Something new with youtube, I think.