alt Hacker News> As I see it, online communication is more like de-humanised, context-free access to singular statements on a topic. As such, it does not equate to "people communicating freely".
Yeah, I don't like how people choose to communicate on the internet either. But that doesn't make it "not free speech."
In case my point was missed, I was doubting the "people" element of the communication, not the "free speech" (although my opinions on that have also changed since my idealistic early internet days).