Maybe. I like principles better than rules precisely because they do not define exact boundaries but standards, not a fence on the landscape that trolls can straddle but a flag, relative to which those who stray into abuse become conspicuous.
Please be assured I'm not trying to give you a hard time. I'm sure you have quite enough of that on your capable hands. I am inclined to trust your hard won experience, in any case. Thank you for Saidit.
Censorship is an obscenity, or should be, to any American. It seems there have always been those who abuse free speech, and those who count on them as an excuse to abuse freedom. It appears to me the problem is that we've all been taught we have rights without the duties necessary to secure them. One of those duties is civility, which is respect for the possibility, the inevitability, that one yet has things to learn from others. Humility is essential. But Americans have been taught entitlement. This fundamental imbalance, between rights and responsibilities, has undermined the foundations of the republic and left us open to the present attack, IMO. We must relearn respect, humility, civility, virtue, if we are to survive to rebuild civilization after the present crisis. Free speech, the unfettered exchange of ideas, is essential. We must find a practical way to protect it. Authority must refrain from censorship, but that's only possible if people learn to refrain from abuse, and to police one another. There is no system so good the people in it don't have to be. The chain breaks at the weakest link. You've chosen a place at the chaotic forefront. What sense will you make of it? What wisdom? I ask only because I am myself buffaloed by the contradictions, but eager for the victory. Freedom, the republic, the Constitution teeters on the brink of free speech.