> OTOH, should companies profit off hate speech or Nazism? No! I really hate this point. I was (am) a "webhost" and also happen to be a staunch free speech ad

> OTOH, should companies profit off hate speech or Nazism? No! I really hate this point. I was (am) a "webhost" and also happen to be a staunch free speech advocate. My rule when I owned my own company was if I didn't have a court order and the content wasn't blatantly obviously illegal (e.g. child porn or outright specific calls for actionable violence) you stayed on-line and I would vehemently defend that right for you. As expected, as you gain such a reputation you tend to draw some really shitty people. I will tell you that the "problem" customers cost far more than they ever made, and it wasn't even close. These were customers I truly despised, but I would actually be subsidizing their platforms due to those opposed (e.g. ddos attacks, constant support phone calls harassing my staff, fishing expedition warrants that needed to be fought, etc. etc.) intentionally costing me money in an attempt to shut down their speech. I found those actions more contemptible than the content they were opposed to - and much of it truly was vile. This is not a profitable segment of the industry to be in, but I still feel it's an extremely important line to never cross and am saddened by the state of telecommunications as a neutral platform/common carrier today. We've lost so much in less than a generation.