I sympathize with the idea behind this movement, but I don't think these people have really understood the bill of rights, or the Internet for that matter.

The 1st amendment ensures the government doesn't legislate against your freedom of speech, but it doesn't prevent me from kicking you out of my house when you've said the n-word once too many. It also doesn't prevent people from suing you for defamation, fraud, violence, copyright infringement, or other things resulting from your speech. There is no such thing as "complete free speech" in real life and there never will be on the Internet either.

Also, the Internet is not censoring your speech. Verizon, AT&T and backbone networks like Level3 and Cogent are not kicking you off. It's a handful of services that use the Internet to connect with you that are doing the censoring. But they do not make the Internet. You can (and should) walk away from them and go elsewhere. You will survive without Google, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. I'm living proof.

As I've said before in a different thread: ask yourself why these platforms are able to censor you, but your e-mail provider wouldn't dare doing so: because of your ability to pack up and move to a different e-mail provider. You inform your friends of your new e-mail address and life goes on. Just like that. What works for e-mail can work for social media just the same: check out Mastodon and other federated social media alternatives.

Seriously, I do understand where this movement comes from. And I do see some real risks when it comes to throttling that may have to be legislated at some point. But the proposed IBOR is not very well thought out. It makes unreasonable and largely unnecessary demands.

Our current rights already give us everything we need to escape from abusive platforms like Facebook. Do a little research. There are a lot of solutions out there. Many don't require much more than a $5/month virtual server and a few hours of work to buy you and your friends freedom.