Do you use Reddit or Voat?

Why do you use this platform, which has a content policy?

You believe all speech is acceptable on all platforms?

Snuff films are a form of speech, broadly speaking, so do you think people should be able to post pictures of women being murdered on Twitter or here?

If I posted your home address and phone number, and spread a rumor that you were a pedo, that would be a form of speech. Would muting or blocking me stop the harm caused to you after the rumor spreads and you’re getting 500 calls a day from people accusing you of molesting children, and others are showing up on your doorstep with guns, like they did with Comet Pingpong?

People who argue for “free speech absolutism” think they’re taking a bold, principled stance, when in reality it’s an overly simplistic argum.ent that they feel free to make because it’s all an abstraction that has absolutely no real-world impact or implications.

I don’t really like that Twitter or Facebook or any company has that much arbitrary authority over the tools I use to communicate, but at the end of the day I agree with the concept of online content moderation, however arbitrarily enforced. Mods have existed in any forum since forever. Try spending any amount of time in an unmoderated community or one with really lax moderation. They’re awful, shitty sewers that no one but absolute misanthropes and neo-Nazis enjoy using.