This is a difficult problem. It's true that large platforms are a sort of public square, and being excluded from them is something to be a bit wary of. What if

This is a difficult problem. It's true that large platforms are a sort of public square, and being excluded from them is something to be a bit wary of. What if Musk decided to kick out entire classes of people? That'd be pretty gross. On the other hand, if you don't moderate stuff with a pretty heavy hand (like Hacker News) does, it can go downhill pretty quickly. It's sort of like if you have a bar, and you get some rowdy drunk skinheads in the corner bellowing about some racial group they hate (ok, I know there are skinheads that are nice people and anti-racist... it's just an example, bear with me). No one kicks them out, and normal people don't want to be around them, either, and start leaving, to be replaced with people who are ok with the racist behavior. Pretty soon, you have a bar full of nazis. I'd rather be in a bar where they kick out the nasty people, even if I strongly believe the nasty people do have a right to, say, put on a march.