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Yep. Many of the social or content websites advertising as being "moderation free" don't seem to thrive or last very long, even though that tends to attract a

• freeflight 5y ago
  For the longest time they thrived and were considered the de-facto standard. But the politicization of that whole field, trough FUD about "social bots" and "fake news", made that very difficult to keep up. Case in point; Liveleak is now gone, with it at lot of content that's now hidden away in private archives of data hoarders. Now, one can handwave that away as just a bunch of snuff and gore porn, but there was so much more there than that; Controversial livestreams that were deleted from the original platform also serve as evidence, war footage, all the things authorities and governments often don't want people to see. Like footage from the Syrian civil war on YouTube; Google scrubbed massive amounts of that, possibly including evidence for war crimes [0] By now it's reached a point where even documentaries about certain wars get an automatic age-lock from YouTube, the only way to watch those is to confirm your real identity with Google. On that end the surface web has lost so much of its "bite", it hardly feels like the web anymore. [0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-socialmedia-rights-trfn-idUSKBN23Q2TO https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-socialmedia-rights...