Honest, or uninhibited? I make the distinction as someone can be honest while also being conditioned to self censor and having to tone-down their language. Fo

Honest, or uninhibited? I make the distinction as someone can be honest while also being conditioned to self censor and having to tone-down their language. For some people, speaking uninhibited is not necessarily always a worst instinct even if that means hurting someones feelings. I would rather know who I am dealing with via their inhibition. The platform and/or client should give thin skinned folks a way to block jerks. I think a primary concern today is the risk aversion of societal blow-back leading to legal quagmires and simply silencing, shadow-banning or deleting someone off a platform to avoid risk. I would theorize that perhaps some contributing factors would be the confluence of incompatible laws and cultural differences of each nation make it highly risky for advertisers, affiliates and investors to be financially tied to a platform that permits uninhibited conversations in this international arena. What is acceptable in one nation may be highly taboo, heresy or entirely illegal in another. In conclusion I believe this is what leads to having three degrees of platforms and thus at least 3 degrees of inhibition. - Mainstream corporate platforms where people have to self-censor and tip-toe on eggshells [1] to avoid being cancelled. Most of these platforms have a code of etiquette that may be enforced by moderators and/or group voting and/or machine learning. - Platforms that explicitly don't care about investor concerns and only try to stay within the laws of the nation they are hosted. Maybe that would be like 4chan? So they allow most but not all speech? This will attract the people that find themselves isolated away from corporate mainstream monetized platforms. Usenet probably also falls into this category today as it is distributed and the end-users have to censor whatever they do not like themselves however attribution to the source poster is still sometimes possible. Usenet is an example of people being pushed off a platform by bots and I am not entirely convinced that most of the "spam" on usenet is really spam but rather a tool to push people off the platform. - Darkweb platforms that allow any and all speech because attribution to the platform host can be difficult. These sites may also get flooded bots run by people or governments that are vehemently apposed to uninhibited speech and try to push people away from the platform. People can say whatever they want on some of these platforms so just like the former days of Usenet people have to wear a very thick skin [2] and be ready for people to be entirely uninhibited and/or jerks. There are probably other layers and aspects of this issue that I am missing. [1] - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/walk_on_eggshells https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/walk_on_eggshells [2] - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thick%20skin https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thick%20skin