This is where I disagree with you though. If you bomb on stage because you're not funny, you didn't get thrown out of the club for being offensive. You got thrown out because you're not funny. This is a very important difference. There is a big difference in Tucker Carlson being thrown of Fox news because he said something offensive and Tucker Carlson getting thrown off Fox news because his ratings are tanking and he's no longer funny. Only one of those is censorship.
Who has been banned over free speech issues? I know of Nagolbud being banned, and that was because he was annoying the shit out of half the posters and derailing every topic, not because anything he was saying was offensive. I'm not as plugged into the forum lore as you are. Is there anyone else?
Also, I have to say, it's extremely autistic to say a place with like four rules that amount to don't post anything illegal, don't shit up the forum and don't drop the hard r is not an alternative to >reddit
, a site divided into little fifedoms where tranny jannies and autists make up whatever rules they want. I would get banned or heavily downvoted for every second post I've made here on >reddit
. You're setting up a false dichotomy that a platform has to either have zero rules or it's automatically as bad as reddit. Is Kiwifarms >reddit
? Is 4Chan >reddit
? Was 8chan >reddit
? Were BBSes >reddit
? Besides Usenet, there has never been an online message board with literally no rules.
Never.
Free speech is the ability to express controversial ideas without being censored, not the ability to shout "fire" in a crowded movie theatre. I haven't seen anything like the former being stifled here, just the latter.