What Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Said in His Defense of ‘Free Expression’

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended free expression in a speech at Georgetown University on Thursday.

“[The internet] allows people to share things that wouldn’t have been possible to share before,” he said. However, “we’re seeing people across the spectrum try to define more speech as dangerous because it may lead to political outcomes that they see as unacceptable.”

Freedom of expression and censorship-resistance may be sacrosanct for cryptocurrency advocates. But Zuckerberg did not link his free-speech concerns to his company’s Libra cryptocurrency project, nor did he stake out an entirely radical position.

He acknowledged that certain restrictions on speech have always been a part of the U.S. political climate, but he called for a scenario in which those restrictions were as few as possible – and the decisions weren’t left in the hands of private companies:

“I believe in giving people a voice because, at the end of the day, I believe in…