Do you believe that sites who build platforms for others should allow free speech.

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John2290 said:

Carl2291 said:
When you sign up to this site you accept the terms of use that state directly that the people in charge of the site have the right to refuse, move, or remove any material that you submit to the site for any reason. The people in charge also have the right to establish general practices and limits concerning your use of the site. You also accept the terms that you will not defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten, or otherwise violate the legal rights of others.

You accepted these terms upon account creation. If you wish to have true freedom of speech with no rules or regulations on what you're able to talk about, I'm sure you can find countless more sites to push your views if your topics get locked here.

However with this line of thought people would migrate from site to site. It happens, i guess and is still happening to s smaller degree but if rules are there to protect the site as a business, revenue and traffic should be above all else and if you kill the traffic you kill the revenue. I'm sick of mentioning twitter so lets take Youtube as an example, freedoms are lost there so many and more sites pop up with the intent to take traffic, some succeed even. How can you condone censorship in favour of loosing traffic. Even if it's a balancing act shouldn't these be outlined upon joining, as  you mentioned in the first part of your post, and avoid fluctuations.

Twitter and other sites I fear won't realize this before the go the way of Myspace/gaf..etc. and with Youtube now only feeling the brunt of these issues it'll be fun looking at what way things go. 

I suppose it's still all up in the air because a government can't call something a utility and basic human right and yet have aspects that contradict other rights. 

That's not considering though the people that are reluctant to join because of a lack of repression of certain attitudes such as racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. Maybe banning that talk, while resulting in a few people leaving, would result in more people willing to join.