Good thoughts. Free speech is the way to go. The only problem with all the 'free speech' sites is that they become just the opposite in time. Not that it bothers me, I lean right anyway ... but in the end, all free speech sites simply become the polar opposites of the SJW lefty sites. I'm not sure that's avoidable ... nor do I care much. And I doubt that there's anything that can be done to change that, because it isn't the site structure or admins, etc that make that happen, it's simply the user base itself that leans one way or another and defines what will be 'permitted' and what will be blasted into oblivion. But all in all, to me, as close to free speech as you can get, the better. It's a worthy goal.
I ponder this idea a lot and I have yet to come up with a solution, I dabbled with the idea of a left.poal.co and a right.poal.co and so on with different instances but then how would the sites interact and not just be echo chambers its a complicated problem to solve.
I doubt it's solvable. I think that's just the way it is. We all gravitate to the places we feel more comfortable. There is a middle, I'm more in the middle than most, I think ... I like to see both viewpoints, but always end up back where I started, on the more conservative side. The problem will always be, no matter how hard you try, there are the extremes that on one side or the other make it their mission to drive out anything they oppose. That's just human nature I think ... a tough thing to overcome.
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