Not going to touch the second half of that statement. I don't necessarily disagree with you. Who took down 8chan? The chans are a cesspool of whatever can be found. If you want a video of someone raping a dog and then lighting it on fire, it's there. But it was specifically deplatformed by *somebody*. It was up and running for decades before that. The subreddits I mentioned were taken out by direction. We mostly kept to ourselves. Like /r/The Donald (can't put an underscore in the markdown), if you put everyone in one box, they stay there and don't hurt anybody even if they are rowdy. Once you get rid of the box, they are allowed to spill out and go pretty much anywhere. They won't get rid of /r/The Donald because it's too big. The unwashed masses would take over the rest of reddit and really mess with it. So why is someone going to all this trouble and expense? This isn't being done by a few people who are dissatisfied with Qtards being in their face. This is being done by a powerful group of people with a lot of resources. Hobbyists wouldn't bother, nobody has that much free time. This is like /r/politics. If you look at it casually, it's fine, just a bunch of neoliberals. But if you look at it closely, that subreddit is owned and operated and curated. You aren't allowed to speak anything right of center. And if you dare to speak of anything outside the left "box of approval" you will be excommunicated. It is paid for and there are huge resources at play by Shareblue and other operations. This is known and documented.