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There seems to be a tremendous opportunity brewing for censorship-free service providers. If the Terms of Service were such that they only prevented illegal activity, spam, and other automated abuse being conducted on their platform, and left content alone, is there a way to make that feasible?

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If there was a moment to create an alternative that specifically "left content alone" to FB and Youtube, it'd be now. I wish I had the resources/time to do that, but I don't. I hope somebody finds the time, though.

You're essentially describing where we started out. We know what happens without rules, online and off. There's a reason we converge towards having standards of behavior above basic legality.

We have to stop conflating the importance to speak without threat of imprisonment with a right to publish anything anywhere.

I'd argue that there is no significant difference in the way that totalitarian governments silence democracy activists, Muslims or just random people protesting against government actions, and the actions of Facebook, Apple, Google and Spotify.

Yes Alex Jones is horrible. Problem is, if crazy people don't have freedom of speech, you don't have it either.

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