Recent events suggest this will not end well. From what I can tell, Voat was intended to be an alternative to Reddit. It wasn't supposed to be aimed at any par

Recent events suggest this will not end well. From what I can tell, Voat was intended to be an alternative to Reddit. It wasn't supposed to be aimed at any particular group of people. Then Reddit banned Coontown, and many white supremacists and other bigots switched to Voat. As a result of the influx, Voat now features a shocking amount of bigoted content. I don't think this was the intention of the creator of Voat, but it's what they're stuck with now. If you really care about free speech, and you make a clone of Medium to allow any kind of speech, this is a probable enough scenario: 1. The non-bigots will be split. Many of them will just stick with Medium, but some die-hard free speech supporters will come to your site. 2. Unfortunately you'll probably get a sizable majority of the bigots, because they think Medium is waging war against them. They don't actually care about free speech, they just want a place where they can spew hatred and slander. 3. These bigots will post a large amount of bigoted content to your service. 4. Eventually the free speech supporters who are non-bigots will get tired of fighting it, and they'll go back to Medium 5. Now you own and operate a site that is pretty much just bigotry, which probably isn't something you want your name associated with. 6. Some site will ban a couple of bigots, and a person will recommend building a free-speech centered clone of it, and some idiot will tell you that it's a bad idea because of Voat.