Free speech

Free speech is in the news because Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter and he claims he will open it up and not censor. Free speech is portrayed as a complicated issue but many feel it is simply allowing all speech that is not illegal. This eliminates the argument over lying or what is now called misinformation and thus removes the need for an arbiter of truth which is complicated. Most adults feel they can discern truth without the help of some outside expert. People believe this not only because they trust their own gut feelings but they have witnessed the number of times that the experts have been wrong. My favorite definition of expert. An expert is a man who knows more and more about less and less until he finally knows everything about nothing. This has a kind of mathematically thing to it.