No, it wasn't. But that's the reason given.
My explanation below I think is more accurate, that was more of an excuse.
I have no idea of the reasons, just that talk.lol was registered in conjunction with voat.xyz.
The .xyz was just a mirror of the talk.lol site. He advertised it and marketed it as "Nu Voat" somewhere the old Goats could get back together again. Except in building it up again, he went completely rogue and started bashing the original Voat and made policies in contrast to it out of sheer defiance.
It was(https://files.catbox.moe/5uv53l.png), see also system's response: https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=6130940c26e7a&commentid=6130973a20f1f .
Bad idea to believe anything Joseph/ALS has to say, he has an axe to grind and tries to paint everyone related to the site as a pedo.
I'm just the messenger. No need to hate.
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