That whole amendment could easily fit in a tweet.

As it should be. These lawyer games over arguing intent (even when in cases like these many of the framers wrote on their intent elsewhere) while adding so much language in hard to read formats has allowed for the many jacked up laws/practices we are currently under the thumb of.

I also agree on the rights of the fakebooks of the world to censor what they want on THEIR platforms. I have noted many times to my friends who believe they are on the right that it is interesting that none of their heroes with money seem to care enough to invest in platforms that would allow their views to be published.

If anywhere, freedom of speech has the potential to thrive on a decentralized social platform/blockchain like HIVE

Love that you inserted the word POTENTIAL. Not only is it dependent on the owners of a front end, but also on the witnesses (as we have seen with Steem). This is further compounded when there is a POS system that is tied to a social standing number. Proof of Stake demands that those with stake have more say (as the US originally also intended in their limited democracy experiment). When that social number can be blasted so low that comments aren't visible (not talking about click the unhide button, they are literally hidden as we saw on Steemit), the idea of a social number as well can exacerbate the speech on platforms honoring that social contract numerical value.

Great write up. As usual, I see our beliefs are similar.