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Then the down vote is as well.

Change the downvote policy or quit calling yourself a free speech site.

Policed speech is never free.

Then the down vote is as well. Change the downvote policy or quit calling yourself a free speech site. Policed speech is never free.

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Interesting. The upvote isn't mentioned in the but I hadn't thought of it that way.

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I use it to voice my approval.

Others may use it however they want.

Point is, a POLICY, by definition, polices speech.

Thus POAL is not free speech.

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I see your point. The only counter to it I have is that no site is 100% free speech, in the sense that there are no limits to what can be posted. By participating here we are consenting to the rules. If we don't like it we can post elsewhere or lobby to change the rules.

I got sick of much of the behavior at Voat (both by the admins and a good chunk of the members) so I moved on. Phuks was too stifling for me so I settled here, and I feel like I made the right choice.

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Sounds fine to me.

Thank you for seeing my point.

I understand about rules. What I don't like is open hypocrisy when they say it's free but limit how I use a particular button.