If everyone hates censorship so much, why do those “censorship-free” alternative social media sites always fail?
Last Updated: 02.07.2025 17:20
I hate censorship. That is, I think the government has no place controlling what people say, read, express, or create, except insofar as is necessary to prevent things like terroristic threats, dissemination of classified information, fraud, false advertising, and so on.
Now, say you’re an ordinary person. You don’t like child porn. You’re not a Nazi. You don’t want to shoot up a school or blow up the White House.
Are you going to stay on a social media site that’s all photos of babies being raped, Nazis posting graphic descriptions of finishing what Hitler started, and plans for school shootings?
Has your wife or girlfriend ever been felt up in public by a stranger?
You have the right to say what you want. You do not have the right to use other people’s stuff for free.
Child pornographers.
“Censorship-free” social media sites quickly become Nazi bars where people exchange child porn. Normal human beings don’t hang out in Nazi bars with pedophiles.
Have you ever secretly watched someone while they were doing something private?
The #1 problem people who make and consume child pornography have is connecting the producers with the buyers. Any “censorship-free” network quickly gets overrun with child porn. Classic example: 8kun.
That has nothing to do with social media.
So.
Who is the #1 user of completely free digital communications networks that let you say absolutely anything? Who most wants that?
If I let you borrow my bike for free, I have the right to tell you you can’t do certain things with it, and I have the right to take it back. Why? Because it’s my property, not yours.
Nazis.
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The #3 user? Terrorists. 8kun was used to plan 3 different school shootings in a 6-month period.
If i let you use my computer network for free, I have the right to tell you you can’t do certain things with it, and I have the right to kick you off. Why? Because it’s my property, not yours.
Why do “censorship-free” social media networks always fail? Well, let’s see. Sit down and think. Think really, really hard.
What are some cool examples of two kinds of people?
Who is the #2 user of completely free digital communications networks that let you say absolutely anything? Who else wants that?
Because you’re confusing two different things.
We don’t have to guess. We know.