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Totse.com was the first mainstream forum with free speech. It was basically the most successful free speech forum back in the days. They even had their own merchandise. On January 17, 2009, Jeff Hunter the founder announced the end of Totse without explanation.

This makes me draw parallels with Voat.

Totse.com was the first mainstream forum with free speech. It was basically the most successful free speech forum back in the days. They even had their own merchandise. On January 17, 2009, Jeff Hunter the founder announced the end of Totse without explanation. This makes me draw parallels with Voat.

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I know the original TOTSE was a BBS. The owner pulled plug simply to retire after a glorious 20 year run. My guess is totse.com was one of the continuation sites for the community (like v/HDLUnited was for Hiddenlol), but I never used totse.com so I wouldn't really know.

The pinnacle of 2009 era free speech was probably 4Chan /b/.

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4chan was designed by an autistic retard.

All the normal people were on Totse.