That would be a good argument if Gab didn't also keep getting shut down, deplatformed and generally targeted by lots of activists who would love to erase it fro

That would be a good argument if Gab didn't also keep getting shut down, deplatformed and generally targeted by lots of activists who would love to erase it from the net entirely. The goal of the sort of people doing this is that there are no alternatives. Not competing platforms, not self hosting, nothing. They want to erase all such thought from all public spaces and will not stop until they do. That is the problem.