>Note that you’re choosing to spend your time on HN (a relatively strongly moderated forum) instead of a less moderated forum like 8chan’s /b/. >Free speech in

>Note that you’re choosing to spend your time on HN (a relatively strongly moderated forum) instead of a less moderated forum like 8chan’s /b/. >Free speech in the sense of “everybody should be forced to platform every idea” is silly IMO. This is a strawman. Nobody forced twitter to build twitter. When you build an open platform and let anyone sign up, you're offering a platform. When you then arbitrarily decide to remove people from it for wrongthink you're reneging on the deal. Framing it as "forced to platform every idea" is nonsense. Phone companies are literally required not to discriminate based on content and it's been on the whole a good thing. I don't know why social media gets to be both a platform and an editorial board. It's bullshit. >ote that you’re choosing to spend your time on HN (a relatively strongly moderated forum) instead of a less moderated forum like 8chan’s /b/. Why do moderators always act like a person can only use one website? Is it a power thing? I use reddit, facebook, hn, .win, poal, twitter, and 4chan almost every day. >If you want your platform to be about anything other than those, you need curation and moderation. This is key for a good user experience. This is just your opinion. For me a good user experience isn't even possible if I'm silenced or "moderated" (read: censored).