Will free speech pay the price as governments across the world ask social media platforms to moderate content?

November has been an eventful month for people on either side of the free-speech debate. On November 17, the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, respectively, appeared before the US Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions about their companies labelling content as “free speech” or “hate speech”. While the Republican senators questioned the platforms on censorship and anti-conservative bias, Democrats raised