Free speech is a discussion that brings out a lot of different people with a lot of different takes on it.
You have people that believe in unmitigated free speech. (this is free speech)
You have people that believe in free speech except for illegal speech, but who decides what's illegal and what's illegal constantly changes.
You have people that believe in free speech, but not violence or bigotry.
You have people that believe in free speech, but then ban anyone who they decide is a shill that posts MSM shill business.
You also have people that believe other people should only believe or write what they themselves believe, no questions asked. You see this in many countries ran by full on authoritarian governments.
Then there's the matter of private property. Should you be allowed to yell whatever you want on someone else's property, whether it be a home, a car, a business or a website. No matter what people try to convince you of, a website is private property, it is owned by someone or a corporation, they pay the bills.
Do we force private companies to pay the bills to host content that they do not want?
Also take note on this fact: Any site that has allowed very very little moderation always turns into a shit show or stormfront. There are many many many examples of this. This alone shouldn't be a problem, however, constant bigotry and aggressive insults to anyone who doesn't share those views is a very good way to chase everyone away.
Some people will say great! We don't want those faggots here! Then all you're doing is jerking each other off to the exact same ideas, which results in zero growth and mostly just a big pile of jizz on your own face.
So what is an acceptable level of free speech to everyone here?
EDIT: Woke up today banned form the Donald. Never even posted there. LOL
Free speech is free speech, no ifs ands or buts. Reddit has the right to implement their policies and we have the right to leave and join communities (such as this) that allow free speech. Stop worrying about how you’ll be perceived by the masses - that is why we are in this current mess. Embracing free speech is the best way to convert people into the light of freedom, not trying to trick them by allowing more “free speech” than the other guys.
But this community doesn't allow free speech, that's the point. Virtually no communities do. They all employ their own "free speech" which in reality is quite limited.
I was banned from r/conspiracy for simply stating that linking to a thread is not brigading in itself. I was banned from here 8 times today in fact for talking about censorship here and censorship done by the head mod, and I was previously banned from greatawakening.win, funny.win, technology.win, gaming.win all for going against the narrative there.
So I'm still hunting for this so called free speech that everyone claims exists, yet I can't find it.
Start your own site. Host it on dmca ignore servers in east eu or rosh.