I would argue that how these platforms are run, including censorship, is helping to elevate the toxicity present. Good moderation is a difficult problem. Yet

I would argue that how these platforms are run, including censorship, is helping to elevate the toxicity present. Good moderation is a difficult problem. Yet there is no substitute for community standards and eyeballs on text to create a reasonable platform for discussion. None of the automated-system platforms manage it, youtube, facebook, twitter, all have garbage moderation systems. Censorship resistance has always been a cardinal virtue of online geekdom. Information wants to be free, as the old saying goes. These systems will keep popping up and someone, eventually, may well nail the combination to create an attractive platform for open discourse and draw a major user base away from facebook, reddit, and twitter who are flirting ever more with hushing voices they don't like.