> The guy is already tied up in litigation constantly and he doesn't enjoy it.
Well, no one forces him to run a forum for the world's most vile scumbags. Maybe, just maybe, being embroiled in lawsuits for years is society's moderate way of telling him "hey, what you're doing is widely seen as unacceptable". If it's worth the stress and money for him, okay, but he's not in any position to whine around. He can sleep in a pig sty all he wants, but ffs don't complain when other people say he stinks like a pig.
> so to me the ends don't justify the means unless my own blood family are in the crosshairs. Sort it the fuck out legally, preferably without trashing the US Constitution.
Well, there we have the classic dispute between people from the US and partially the UK on the free-speech absolutist side and the Continental European viewpoint that some sorts of speech and actions need to be banned for a healthy society, given the learnings of the NS dictatorship and the Soviet gulags on just how depraved humans can act upon each other.
Personally, as a German I see way too many parallels between the current USA and the pre-1933 Germany for my liking, in particular the regular bloodshedding and the attempt of the far right to deny marginalized people (especially Jews and LGBT, it's disturbing how history repeats itself) their right to a peaceful existence. And platforms like the xChans, Kiwifarms, but also due to their inaction on moderation Facebook, Twitter and Youtube play a massive role in this.