Much the same as my ideal. Speech has limits, but you want the channel through which it flows to be wide. Taken as a whole, the internet provides a vehicle for this.
Not that this means a person has to listen to every piece of the cacophany. But that's hearers' rights. Something different and not usually enumerated. I don't need to open my ears to conspiracy theories. If you want to post Hannity guff, go somewhere people wish to listen to it. If you don't like what JK Rowling has to say, don't read her twitter feed. If you wish to play drums, find a room with thick walls.
"JK Rowling joins Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Noam Chomsky and Martin Amis among 150 authors and academics in call to defend free speech - after Harry Potter creator suffered barrage of abuse for voicing views on trans issues
Authors and academics from left and right unite over cause of free speech
Margaret Atwood signed letter despite opposing JK Rowling's trans views
Open letter warns the 'lifeblood of society' is 'daily becoming more constricted'
Writers ask for leeway for 'experimentation, risk taking, and even mistakes'"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8500911/JK-Rowling-joins-150-authors-academics-calling-end-cancel-culture.html
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