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"Privately-owned platforms [that] do as they please" but call themselves “free speech” are dishonest.

This isn’t partisan hypocrisy — it’s applying an objective standard to a bad-faith argument.

Free speech is the right for penis pill sellers to post incessantly.

You can find a happy middle ground between unrestricted free speech (of real people) and banning spammers and people who run alt accounts.

Making the system invite-only may be a requirement.

Evidence and experience say this isn't true. No platform has ever hit this balance.

I would argue the simplest answer is transparent moderation.

If needed, split a team of moderators by political association and have each moderator handle the users of the "opposite" side.

Otherwise you end up getting shadow banned for reporting an actual call to violence which then took place.

Your comment is completely irrelevant to what I wrote. I did not said it should be illegal to create right wing discussion forum.

I said that it is not free speech platform.