It is difficult for me to imagine what “freedom of speech” is exercised by journalists working at bourgeois news outlets after being subjected to the brutal process of classist elimination that is the capitalist schooling & university system, the intellectual apparatus of publishing & now social media driven by algorithmic censorship, all just to stay out of poverty, with the potential to ally with said ruling class via asset wealth.

To me, “freedom of speech” is not a laissez-faire attitude towards the press. Freedom of artistic expression is not letting people trace over drawings of trafficked children, like Neil Gaiman enthusiastically campaigned for on Tumblr and in court to his adoring young fans. Both are currently best experienced by writers + artists freed from a system based on deprivation & enclosure, enabled by a worker’s state that actually works on the preservation of cultural production. In the future much better than that will be possible, I would like something like a “free” internet where everyone can just see each other’s stuff.

But first we need to deal with the people selling monkey torture videos, and Pierre Omidyar-type people running limited hangouts like the Intercept

This was written in the bathroom while out for drinks with coworkers so excuse the brevity & lack of clarity I’m not proofreading